Best Steak Marinade (so juicy!)

Add juicy, savory flavors to your next steak by cooking this simple steak marinade. This delicious Marinade for steaks is prepared with Worcestershire sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic and a touch of lemon.

The best steak marinade

There’s nothing like a perfectly cooked steak. Especially if the steak has previously been deliciously seasoned or marinated to bring out all the juicy flavors of the steak.

We love this easy steak marinade because it’s made with simple ingredients but adds a lot of flavor. This marinade is. a combination of sugar, salt and a little citrus that leaves you with a tender, flavorful and juicy steak.

So whip up this steak marinade and serve your juicy steaks alongside our grilled potatoes or slice your steaks and serve them in our famous steak salad recipe!

Ingredients for steak marinade

What ingredients go into the steak marinade? There are some basic ingredients that usually make up the base of a steak marinade, and we’ve added our own twist too! Everything you need is here.

• Worcester sauce– Many steak marinades include Worcestershire because it’s a vinegar-based sauce that contains ingredients like anchovies, garlic, tamarind, and other ingredients that create a salty sauce that pairs perfectly with steak.
• balsamic vinegar– some sugar to balance the saltiness of this marinade comes from the balsamic vinegar.
• Chopped Garlic– Adding fresh garlic to any marinade adds so much flavor. We do not recommend substituting garlic powder.
• olive oil– The olive oil binds all the ingredients of the steak marinade together.
• lemon juice– some lemon juice will lighten this marinade and help tenderize the steak before you cook it.
• lemon pepper– Adding some lemon pepper to this marinade brings out the lemon flavor in the marinade.

What kind of steak should I use?

There are many different cuts of steak and you can marinate any cut of steak in the marinade. We have personally used this steak marinade with the following cuts of meat:

Here are other cuts of beef you can use.

This steak marinade will tenderize each of the following steaks.

• roast beef
• ribeye
• New York stripes
• Filet mignon
• skirt steak
• skirt
• T bone
• porterhouse

How long should steaks marinate?

We recommend marinating the steak for at least 30 minutes and up to 12 hours. The longer you marinate steak, the more tender your steak will be. Unlike salmon, you can marinate steak a little longer without lemon juice cooking the steak.

Kitchen helper for marinating steaks

Making this steak marinade will add a lot of flavor to your steak, but you don’t need a lot of tools for this recipe. Everything you need is here.

Marinate Steak (3 steps)

1. Combine: Simply combine all ingredients in a bowl or jar and stir to combine.
2. Marinate: Place your steak in a bowl or large bag and pour in the marinade. Make sure all sides are nice and coated.
3. Let’s sit: Allow steak to marinate for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.

Ways to cook marinated steak

Sous vide steak

Sous vide steak is the ONLY way to eat steak. We’re obsessed with the perfectly prepared Goodness from sous vide steak. It’s as easy as 1-2-3.

Grilled steak

• Add our grilled flank steak on the menu this summer! You can serve this flank steak neat, in tacos, or even in fajitas.
• Try our grilled New York Strip (which we used in these photos). We love the fat to protein ratio of this cut of meat and the marinade suits this recipe so well.

Fried

If you don’t have a grill, you can simply sear your steak in a cast iron skillet or griddle over high heat, then bake until it reaches a safe temperature to eat. Try our cast iron steak recipe.

FAQ

How to store cooked steak

You can store cooked steak in the refrigerator for up to 7 days as long as it’s stored in an airtight container.