A good Friend of mine is from the Balkans. Recently he shared his family's secret marinade recipe. It is rather unique, so I simply had to give it a try.
The Recipe (shared with permission):
Milo’s Marinade
Ingredients
- Onion juice (one onion is enough). You can squeeze juice from an onion using any crusher. All you need is the equivalent of ~ two tablespoons
- 5 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of natural balkan style yogurt at at least 2% fat - can substitute with sour cream, although yogurt is better.
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- A few drops of apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons of milk
- half a teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- half a teaspoon of salt
Directions
Mix all ingredients well, let them rest for a half hour for flavours to interact with one another. Put steaks in a suitable tupperware container and pour in the marinade. Coat the steaks thoroughly, by turning them a couple of times in the marinade. Refrigerate. The longer the steaks stay in the marinade, the tenderer they get. I find anywhere between 6 and 24 hours works perfectly. Take them out a couple hours before BBQ time for steaks to reach room temperature.
Marinade Concocted, two whitetail round steaks as the test subjects:
Splashdown:
Flipped them and rolled them around frequently over the next 24 hours, then out of the fridge for a couple hours and ready for the grill:
Got the BarBee smoking hot:
Quick Sear both sides:
Then onto the warming rack to finish (accent on the rare part of medium rare):
Perfection:
Served with Four Cheese Risotto, a great tossed salad with avo, and an uber fine Red:
These steaks turned out as tender as any tenderloin I have ever eaten, and they were outside rounds! Flavour was excellent, very juicy and overall quite wonderful!
This is something we WILL be trying again!
Cheers,
Nog