What types of relaxation in the warm season have not been invented, and picnics are still in trend. People are looking for all kinds of kebab recipes to diversify their outings. Usually this dish is prepared from pork, chicken or lamb. But recently, beef skewers are in great demand. They turn out very tasty if you use high-quality marinade and strictly follow the cooking procedure. We offer you an excellent beef kebab recipe with photos, as well as several marinade options.

The most delicious beef barbecue marinade

Cooking barbecue is a simple matter. But the marinade to it must be selected with special care. Several types of marinade are suitable for beef skewers. Try to marinate the meat in one of the ways suggested here, and you will get a unique dish melting in your mouth and emitting a magical aroma!

Recipe 1. Classic beef barbecue marinade

The traditional way to cook beef skewers is marinating meat in vinegar. Shish kebab is tasty and tender.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
• 2 onion heads.
• Salt to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Cut the meat into pieces and put in a deep pan.

1. 1. Cut the onion into thick rings, add to the meat.

1. 1. Add seasoning, pepper and salt to the beef skewers.

1. 1. Pour vinegar and only after it vegetable oil.

1. 1. Stir the meat with the marinade.

1. Close the pan with a lid and let the meat rest for 2 hours, then proceed to frying.

Recipe 2. Marinade for barbecue with pomegranate juice

If you want soft beef skewers, pickle it in pomegranate juice. The acid contained in it will make the meat fibers very tender and juicy.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Pomegranate juice - 100 ml ..
• Ground black pepper to taste.
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
• 2 onion heads.
• Salt to taste.
• Coriander, cloves, basil, caraway seeds and other spices - to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Cut the meat into pieces.

1. 1. Grate the onion or mince.

1. 1. Combine all ingredients except vegetable oil and mix.

1. 1. Pour in vegetable oil and mix again.

1. Cover the juicy beef skewers with a lid and leave to marinate for 2 hours.

Another technology for the preparation of marinade with pomegranate juice will be discussed in the video.

Recipe 3. Marinade for barbecue with wine

This recipe will appeal to those who dream of the most delicious beef barbecue marinade. The dish will be not just juicy, but crumbly and incredibly fragrant.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Semi-sweet red wine - 100 ml.
• Ground pepper - to taste.
• Garlic - 5 prongs.
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Salt to taste.
• Fragrant spices to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Cut the meat into portions.

1. 1. Crush the garlic, turn the onion into pulp using a blender or a meat grinder.

1. 1. Combine the meat, onion and garlic, and then pour the wine over everything. Leave the juicy beef skewers in this form for 1 hour.

1. 1. Then add salt, pepper and spices to the marinade, mix thoroughly.

1. 1. Cover the pan and let the soft beef skewers languish for another 2 hours.

1. When stringing skewers on skewers, pieces of meat can be alternated with vegetables - then the dish will turn out even more juicy.

Recipe 4. Pineapple Shish Kebab Marinade

Delicious beef skewers are obtained after pickling meat with pineapple. The dish turns out not only tasty, but also beautiful. But despite this, the recipe for cooking this type of dish is very simple.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Dried red chili pepper - 1 pc.
• Fresh pineapple - 1.5 pcs.
• White vinegar - 3 tbsp. l
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
• Onion - 4 pcs.
• Salt to taste.
• Oregano seasoning to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Peel the twigs and fry in a hot frying pan with oil for 0.5 minutes. Then remove it and leave to cool.

1. 1. Pineapple cut into large pieces. Leave about 1/3 of the fruit and chop the rest in a blender along with peeled garlic and chili.

1. 1. Cut the meat into pieces and pour the marinade.

1. 1. Cut the onions into wide circles and add to the meat. Mix everything thoroughly and leave to marinate for 2 hours.

1. When the beef kebab is ready for frying, put its slices on skewers, alternating with onion rings and pineapple slices.

Recipe 5. Marinade for barbecue with kiwi

We offer another interesting way to cook the most delicious beef skewers. This dish will appeal to gourmets and those who are used to traditional cuisine.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Kiwi - 1 fruit.
• Onions - 4-5 pieces.
• Pepper to taste.
• Salt to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Cut the meat into pieces and grease each with a mixture of pepper and salt.

1. 1. Cut the onion into circles.

1. 1. Kiwi rub in gruel with a fork.

1. We mix meat with barbecue marinade and leave for 3 hours.

Recipe 6. Recipe for soft and juicy beef skewers

You can learn how to cook beef skewers with anyone. Use our recipe and you will succeed.

Ingredients

• Meat - 1 kg.
• Onions - 2-3 heads.
• Garlic - 5 prongs.
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Salt to taste.
• Pepper to taste.
• Seasonings to taste.

Cooking steps

1. 1. Rinse the meat with cold water and remove excess elements: large pieces of veins, fat and pieces of bones. Chop it into portions, then fold it into a container.

1. 1. Chop or chop the onion and garlic until gruel. Put the mixture in a bowl of meat.

1. 1. Add pepper, salt, lemon juice and other spices.

1. 1. Thoroughly mix the meat with the marinade and cover the container with a lid.

1. 1. After 2-3 hours, put the pickled pieces on oiled skewers and put on the brazier.

1. 1. Turn skewers every 2-3 minutes. Coals should be periodically sprayed with clean cold water.

1. Serve the meat should be hot along with fresh vegetables and in a mouth-watering sauce, which can be either bought ready-made or made at home.

How to cook beef kebabs correctly will be described in the video.

How to cook beef skewers so that the meat is soft

Soft beef skewers - this is not a dream, but a reality! To make meat of this kind tender and pleasant is very simple. The main thing is to use several recommendations.

Soft meat - beef skewers

First, acidic foods or alcoholic beverages should be added to the marinade. Of acidic products, vinegar, kefir, juices or fruits can be used. Alcoholic drinks are not suitable, it is allowed to take beer and wine.
  Secondly, cooking kebabs from this kind of meat should be unhurried. Pieces of veal should be pickled for at least 2 hours. Then they will turn out exactly as you imagine them in anticipation of a meal.

In conclusion, we suggest watching another instructional video. It will tell you how to cook beef skewers so that the meat is soft.

Shish kebab - no matter what meat it is cooked from, it is amazingly tasty, it smells of smoke if it is on a fire, and cooked in the oven - it also captivates with its aromas. Today we have a wonderful summer theme: beef skewers, consider the most delicious marinade, so that the meat is soft, because beef itself is harsh, and it is not used for shish kebab. But in vain.

Beef skewers can be very tasty if cooked correctly, choose the right meat, and also - properly fry - in low heat, so that the meat has time to cook well and not be burnt. Today we want to offer you some tips for marinade preparation, which products are suitable and which are not.

Shish kebab came to us from ancient times, many thousands of years ago our ancestors prepared their own food just like that - after killing game, they roasted it at the stake. Today we have all kinds of electric and gas stoves and a barbecue, but the barbecue cooked at the stake can not be compared with a good company of friends in nature. And what a huge disappointment could come - a rubber, dry skewer, which is often found with beef skewers. Marinating this type of meat requires a special approach, having learned all the nuances, you will prepare an amazingly fragrant and juicy dish.

Beef BBQ from Stalik, video

Unique tips to help you achieve a magical taste in a barbecue, watch and learn from Stalik.

• part of the hind leg, tenderloin is best;
• meat should not be fresh, after slaughtering the animal, the meat should stand for at least 5 hours;
• before pickling, beat off the meat slightly, the kebab will be much softer;
• pickle always at least 8 hours;
• helps the meat to be juicy and soft if a load is placed on a container with marinade;
• cut into medium slices;
• excellent marinade, suitable specifically for beef - with red wine;
• if meat with fat - this will only make it tastier, hurry to remove it;
• so that everyone has enough shish kebabs - count 500 g per person, so everyone will enjoy plenty;
• do not put a lot of spices in the marinade so that the meat flavor does not interrupt.

Beef kebab marinade with kefir

• Kefir - 1.5 L (3.2%)
• Meat - 1 kg
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Lemon - half the fruit
• Salt pepper
• Peppercorns - 5-6 pcs.
• A little dill and basil

The meat, cut into medium pieces (very small ones will be dry, and large ones will burn from the outside, inside will be stiff), grate with black pepper, each piece separately. Do not be lazy.

Coarsely chop the onion rings, add spices, kefir to the kefir, dill with basil, and lower the beef. The marinade should completely cover the meat, leave to marinate for at least 4 hours, you can cover the container and put on top the weight.

Kiwi Sauce

• Beef - 1.5 kg
• Kiwi - 2 fruits
• Salt pepper
• Half a lemon fruit
• White onion - 2

Process the beef, remove, if any, films and veins, cut into medium slices and put in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, you can also use ready-made seasoning for barbecue. Pour with freshly squeezed juice, attach onion rings and slices of peeled kiwi. Pickling left for a couple of hours will be enough, kiwi will do its job.

With beef barbecue vinegar

• 2 kg of beef
• A handful of pepper peas
• 1.5 kg onion
• 10 laurels
• 150 g vinegar
• 1 lemon
• Glass of wine (preferably white, dry)
• Salt, ground pepper (preferably red hot)

Pour pepper into the bowl, put 5 bay leaves, half a portion of onion and prepared meat, sprinkle with red pepper and salt, on top again a layer of onion, lavrushka, vinegar, and other products. Marinate for about 7 hours, can be left overnight.

Delicious.

Pickle with tomato paste

• Beef 2 kg
• White onion 10 pcs
• Peppercorns - 1 spoon
• Lavrushka - 3 pcs.
• One lemon
• Grams 200 g tomato paste
• An incomplete glass of wine (preferably white dry)
• 100 ml of a weak bite (ideally wine, but you can take an apple)
• Salt, ground pepper, hot red

Put the beef, sliced \u200b\u200bfor barbecue, in a large bowl to make it easier to mix, attach spices, tomato, lemon juice and stir with our hands. Put meat in the dishes, add wine, vinegar, bay leaf and onions in large rings. Marinate for 7-8 hours, cover, and put the load, which should be heavy, seven kilograms.

Beef Marinades with Apple Vinegar

• 1 sachet of seasoning
• 2 kg of beef
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 2 onions
• 4 tablespoons of water

Grate chopped beef with seasoning (half portion), and rub each slice separately, put in a bucket or other container. Chop the onion rings and mix with water, do not forget to add the vinegar and seasoning, season the meat and place in a cool place for 5-6 hours.

Delicious and delicate with marinade recipes.

With garlic

• Beef 2 kg
• White onion 2
• Peppermint leaves
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Dried greens (parsley and dill)
• Dry red wine

Chop onion and garlic very finely, add chopped mint and herbs to them. We dilute the wine with water - one glass of water for 2 glasses of wine. As part of the products, we did not write how much wine, this is you yourself watching, given that Yushka should completely cover the products.
  Pour the beef, and let it brew for at least 5-6 hours.

Pickle with pomegranate juice

• 2 kg of beef
• 5 onions
• 600 g pomegranate juice
• 2 tablespoons olive
• Salt pepper

Combine the meat, chopped in medium slices, with onions, chopped with large rings and spices, thoroughly crushing with your hands - so onions, chopped with rings, will release the juice. Now you can add butter, juice - cover, and place the load on top, leave at least for 4 hours in the marinade.

Delicious - many recipes.

With soy sauce

• Beef 1 kg
• ½ cup sauce
• ¼ cup wine vinegar
• 1 onion
• 1 tablespoon of oil (vegetable)
• 1 clove of garlic
• ½ teaspoon ginger
• Salt pepper

Chop onion very finely, meat in medium slices, mix with all the above products, put under pressure for 3-4 hours.

Korean kebab marinade

• 2 kg of beef
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 0.5 cups - sweet red wine
• 0.5 cups brown sugar
• 1 onion white
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• Salt pepper
• One pear

To prepare, as it should be, for a barbecue meat piece, grate all the vegetables on a fine grater and mix with liquid products. Place in a bowl, the size to fit everything, lower the beef and leave to gather aromas for four hours.

With lingonberries

• 1 kg of selected meat
• 100 g lingonberries
• 70 g soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• Salt pepper
• 1 teaspoon of paprika
• 2 tablespoons dry mint

We divide a piece of beef into cubes, about 4 cm, crush lingonberries with a fork, combine with sauce, butter and seasonings. Lubricate the marinade with meat, put it in a saucepan and let it soak all night.

With beef barbecue mayonnaise

• Beef tenderloin 2 kg
• 500-600 g mayonnaise
• 2 kg of onions
• 2 tsp salt
• One teaspoon of pepper and paprika

Grind the tenderloin in uniform portions of not more than 50 grams, chop the whole onion as if to fry. Mix all the products, in the process, compress the meat with your hands, as if kneading it. So leave to marinate for 3-4 hours.

Look delicious - add interesting dishes for your picnic in nature.

With carbonated mineral water

• 2 kg of selected beef
• Heavily carbonated mineral water
• 4 white onions
• 3 bay leaves
• Salt pepper
• Kebab seasoning

Prepare the meat - divide into even cubes, chop the onion rings in half rings. Mix with hands, salt and pepper, do not forget about shish kebab seasoning, pour soda, one finger above the products. You don’t need to marinate such meat for a long time, after two hours start cooking.

We told you many recipes for beef barbecue marinade that will make the meat juicy and tasty, now the main thing is to give it right, and a fragrant barbecue will delight you and your fellow cooks. Enjoy your meal!

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It is difficult to imagine a trip to nature without its integral component - barbecue. Everyone is in anticipation of a fragrant meal, but sometimes the result does not live up to expectations. And all because the wrong pickle was chosen to prepare the meat so that the meat was soft. In order not to fall into such a situation, you should know some subtleties and then any picnic will be a real feast and an ode to praise the culinary talents of the chief chef.

It is important to know exactly what you want to get in the end. After all, the selected pulp will be cooked depending on what products were selected for pickling. At the same time, it is always necessary to observe the time allotted for different ingredients that subsequently affect the quality of meat. Just a few nuances to which you should be prepared in advance and an excellent result will not be long in coming.

The basic tenets of marinating beef

No matter how good the beef is, it can be simply unpredictable. The wrong marinade or one of the products in the process of preparation and the whole result will go down the drain. It should be extremely careful both in the choice of meat and the method of pickling.

• In order for the barbecue to turn out perfect, you need to choose fresh meat or at least chilled. Frozen immediately can be set aside, since the dish will turn out to be almost edible: overdried and fibrous.
• An excellent result is obtained if you buy a rump, a neck, an inner part of the back leg, a tenderloin with a good fat layer for barbecue.
• It is worth forever abandoning the purchase of the finished product in the market or in the supermarket. Often, stale meat is selected that requires processing with spices and essences.

Half way passed. The main product is selected, the only thing left is the marinade. And there are a lot of options. Therefore, when choosing the best combination of ingredients, you should be guided by your taste preferences and addictions to certain products.

Beef pulp barbecue marinade

One of the main nuances that should be considered before choosing a method of pickling is the time allotted for the preparation of meat and the products by which the active process of preparing for frying will go. You must carefully read each recipe and choose the most interesting.

  With vinegar

A well-known method by which to give the necessary quality to the veal can be literally an hour. It should be prepared for the additional components used in the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Beef pulp - a couple of kilograms.
• Onions - 8 heads.
• Paprika - 10 grams.
• Acetic essence - 1 tablespoon.
• Water - 100 milligrams.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the pulp. Cut into large pieces and beat off a little with a culinary hammer. Cut into pieces of medium diameter.

2. Prepared pieces shift enameled bowl. Sprinkle with spices. Cut the onion into large rings and add to the bowl. Mix well to give the onion rings juice.

3. Dilute the essence with water. Pour into a bowl. Knead well. Place under oppression. Allow to stand for at least 7 hours. The longer the product is pickled, the softer it will be.

The most simple and economical way to create a unique meal.

  With mayonnaise

You can’t do without this sauce. In order for the beef to become especially soft and juicy, this product is worth using and discovering new taste faces.

Ingredients:

• Beef - 2 kilograms.
• A large pack of mayonnaise.
• Lemon - 3 medium fruits.
• Head of garlic.
• Spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the lemon, dry it, grate the lemon peel on a fine grater.

2. Squeeze the juice from the lemons. Mix with garlic through a press. Cut the pulp into slices of medium diameter and mix with prepared foods.

3. Mix the crushed lemon peel with mayonnaise and spices. Pour into the rest of the ingredients. Check the amount of salt. Place in a cool place for at least half a day. In less time, the result may not live up to expectations.

As a result, the dish will turn out exactly as it was expected: juicy, tender and literally dissolving in the mouth.

  With wine

To create an inimitable taste sensation from the consumption of beef will help home-made wine, with the help of which a first-class marinade is prepared.

Ingredients:

• Beef a couple kilograms.
• Onions - 5 heads.
• Homemade wine - 300 milligrams.
• Herbs and spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the veal well. Cut into slices with a diameter of 3-5 centimeters. Add onion, chopped into small rings, in a glass dish. Stir vigorously to produce onion juice.

2. Sprinkle the necessary spices and herbs. Pour with wine.

3. Stir well. Leave to brew for at least 10 hours. It is during this time that all the necessary taste qualities of the products are transferred to the meat.

A non-standard approach will delight true connoisseurs of classic barbecue.

  With kiwi

You can add a peculiar zest and diversify the familiar taste of the meal with the help of a tropical fruit.

Ingredients:

• Veal - 2 kilograms.
• Onions - 7 heads.
• Kiwi - 1 fruit.
• Sparkling mineral water - 500 milligrams.
• Laurel - 5 sheets.
• Seasonings according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the pulp, cut into equal pieces of medium diameter. Mix with onion rings and laurel. Knead well. Onion juice should appear.

2. Peel the kiwi fruit, twist in a meat grinder or grate finely. Move to prepared foods. Pour the desired spices. Pour mineral water and mix.

3. The pickling time takes at least 5 hours. For best results, it is preferable to leave the meat overnight.

An original way to surprise loved ones with a non-standard look at a traditional treat.

  Pineapple

Accelerate the preparation and give the classic look at the meal, something new, thanks to non-standard components. They will create original notes and help to find special tenderness.

Ingredients:

• Beef - a couple of kilograms.
• Fresh pineapple - 1 fruit.
• Wine vinegar - 150 milligrams.
• Garlic is the head.
• Onions - 3 heads.
• Olive oil - 50 milligrams.
• Mediterranean herbs - 5 grams.
• Spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the pineapple, chop finely. Mix half the fruit with cloves of garlic and grind the products using a blender.

2. To the resulting mass add vinegar, Mediterranean herbs, olive oil. Mix.

3. Cut the pulp into medium pieces, put in a glass dish, pour the marinade. Coarsely chop onion rings. Add to container and knead. The process of preparing for frying takes at least 4 hours.

To give the kebab originality on a skewer, it is necessary to string beef and pieces of pineapples alternately. A small amount of onion is better to prepare additionally using paprika and serve together with the finished delicacy.

  Tomato

Thanks to tomatoes, you can create a unique taste in dietary meat. They literally nourish it with their juiciness.

Ingredients:

• Pulp - 2 kilograms.
• Fresh tomatoes or pasta - 300 grams.
• Vinegar - 50 milligrams.
• Lemon is a large fruit.
• White table wine - 100 milligrams.
• Onions - 6 heads.
• Laurel - 6 sheets.
• Spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the veal well and cut into slices with a diameter of approximately 5 centimeters.

2. Thin onion rings spread on the bottom of an enamel pan. Spice up. Add laurel. Put half of the prepared meat on top.

3. Make another similar layer. From above, fill everything with onion rings.

4. Tomato grate or mix tomato paste with water. Add vinegar and pour into a bowl of meat. Leave on for about 20 hours.

5. Pull the meat. Pour with wine and juice of large lemon. Leave to saturate for 5 hours.

Despite the significant time costs, the result is definitely worth the effort to create a culinary masterpiece.

  With pomegranate juice

A specific and at the same time pleasant taste will give exactly the fruit of pomegranate. Sour notes and a wonderful finish can make this particular method a favorite.

Ingredients:

• Beef - 2 - 3 kilograms.
• Lemon - a pair of large fruits.
• Cilantro is a bunch.
• Olive oil - 3 tablespoons.
• Pomegranate juice - 1500 milligrams.
• Onions - 4 heads.
• Spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the pulp, cut into pieces a few centimeters in diameter. Add spices and herbs. Knead well.

2. Cut the lemon and onion into rings. Put in a container for pickling. Knead. Cut the cilantro and add to the rest of the ingredients.

3. Mix the olive oil with the rest of the ingredients. Pour pomegranate juice over everything. Leave for marinating for 8-10 hours.

An unconventional way will give a lot of taste sensations and teach you to appreciate a real barbecue.

  In eastern

True connoisseurs are well aware that only well-chosen oriental spices can convey an extraordinary range of meat tastes. You need to learn how to correctly select the main products, so that the result is beyond praise.

Ingredients:

• Veal - 2 kilograms.
• Tomato sauce - 50 milligrams.
• Head of garlic.
• Lemon is a large fruit.
• Onions - 2 heads.
• Olive oil - 150 milligrams.
• Parsley is a bunch.
• Oriental spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the pulp into pieces with a diameter of 5 centimeters. Add spices and herbs. Stir, gradually adding olive oil. Pass onion, garlic and parsley through a meat grinder. Add to the total mass.

2. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon. Add to other products. Mix. Let it brew for 8-11 hours.

An oriental recipe is nothing complicated. But the aroma that appears from the moment of laying the skewers on the barbecue and the subsequent taste sensations can not be conveyed.

  On kefir

The proposed fermented milk drink is an ideal option for those who want to quickly and effortlessly get a decent dish.

Ingredients:

• Pulp - 2 kilograms.
• Kefir - half a liter.
• Lemon - two fruits.
• Garlic - one head.
• Spices according to preference.

Cooking process:

1. Grate lemon zest. Squeeze the juice. Pass the garlic through a press, add to kefir. Stir with zest, juice, spices.

2. Cut the beef into neat little pieces. Place in a deep enameled bowl. Pour the cooked marinade. The meat preparation process will take at least 6 hours.

This option of serving kebabs is surprisingly juicy and rich.

The process of making decent and juicy beef skewers

In order for the taste of the pulp to be saturated with the collection of firewood, you need to approach it in detail. Fruit trees are considered ideal, which, thanks to the presence of special juices, give the meat an unrivaled taste and sweet aroma.

In the absence of the opportunity to gain good logs for ignition, it is worth resorting to charcoal and the standard method of kindling. It is better not to use special fluids in order to avoid the ingress of toxins into the body.

Regardless of which method of cooking the dish was chosen, the grill or skewer, it is important to prevent the formation of crust in the first minutes of frying. In this case, the meat, even in spite of the excellent marinade, will become stiff and practically not edible. First of all, it should be fried, and only after that get a golden brown crust.

Coals must be periodically sprayed with water so that the dish does not burn. Do not allow moisture to get on the meat, as it can dry out.

For kebabs need constant attention. In no case should its charring be allowed. A burnt barbecue can spoil the whole mood and a walk-up appetite in two.

If all stages of the process are observed, then you can be sure that a first-class dish will delight everyone with its gastronomic properties.

In order to obtain a more delicate dish, the pulp should be well beaten before pickling.

Beef skewers will turn out soft if the medium-sized pieces are not only evenly cooked, but also retain juiciness.

Any marinade should cover beef. Otherwise, it is possible to get a solid kebab.

Preparing the perfect beef skewers is not difficult if you heed the advice and take advantage of the recommendations. A wonderful meal will be tempting to smoke on the grill and invite guests to a hearty meal with a real meat treat.

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Beef skewers: marinade is the most delicious, so that the meat is soft it is extremely relevant, because beef in itself is considered to be meat rather dry. Of course, with the right choice and marinade, the barbecue will turn out to be juicy, but here you have to try. But, unlike pork or lamb, beef is not so high-calorie, which is considered a definite plus for many people who adhere to a diet.

To cook delicious and juicy, soft and beef, you will have to try several times more than with pork or chicken, but the final version, of course, is worth it.

About the need for marinade

If you think about why marinade is needed at all, then, first of all, to saturate the meat with new tastes. Also, marinade in the preparation of barbecue is used to minimize cooking time. And, of course, marinade softens the fibers, making the meat more delicate in taste.

So, to make beef kebab juicy and tender, you must first choose the right beef. Do not take in the store the first piece that catches your eye. Not the fact that it will turn out then even a very good marinade to soften. Choose entrecote or other pieces of mascara that are close to this part.

Important!  Shish kebab beef slices should not be fat, but they should also not be stiff. It is best to choose meat from the back.

Is beef barbecue marinade mandatory? This is not always required, and if the meat is selected high-quality and fresh, then you can do without such components. Also remember that the sour taste gives not only the usual vinegar or lemon juice, but also kefir, beer and wine.

Watch the thematic video, beef skewers: marinade is the most delicious, so that the meat is soft. There is such a video in this article and it will help to better understand how to work with this particular type of meat and what kind of knowledge and skills are required to work with beef, when choosing and processing, cutting. Which foods are totally unsuitable for beef marinade, and which are most welcome.

Beef skewers: the most delicious marinade so that the meat is soft, recipes

With onions and spices

  The best vegetable for pickling any meat for barbecue is, of course, onions. It can be cut into large or small pieces. The peculiarity here is that small onions will quickly release juice, but large pieces of onions will infiltrate only the top crust of meat with juice.

It’s great if a few onions for this type of marinade can be crushed in a blender or minced. It will be necessary to drain the onion juice and it is it that is already used in the process of preparing the marinade.

What you need: salt, ground black pepper, ground coriander, a tablespoon of any dried herbs, dry garlic, a little chili.

All the spices listed above should be added to the onion juice and mixed. Now pour the prepared pieces of beef with this mixture and leave for an hour, no more. After this time, you can begin to prepare a juicy and tender kebab.

With onion puree

If in the previous recipe for beef marinade, onion juice was used, then in this case onion puree will be used. Again, you will need to either chop the onion in a blender or just grate it. Now add a little mustard, vegetable oil, salt and pepper, bay leaf to the onion.

In eastern

  For one kilogram of beef, this skewer will require 80 ml of soy sauce, a large spoonful of honey and grated ginger root, also a little sesame oil, salt and garlic to taste.

Prepared meat will need to be salt first. Heat the honey a little in a water bath, add ginger to it. Next, add the garlic, passed through the press, to the spices. Mix the ingredients, pour the meat with marinade and mix everything thoroughly. The marinade needs at least four hours to soak the beef, then you can start cooking the barbecue.

With pomegranate juice

  Another interesting oriental version of the preparation of marinade. For two kilograms of beef, two kilograms of onion, a liter of pomegranate juice is taken. Mix the meat with onion rings, sprinkle everything with herbs, add salt and pepper, pour pomegranate juice. Leave to marinate for at least ten hours. An hour before cooking the barbecue on charcoal, pour a little vegetable oil into the marinade, and once again check the taste for salt. How to cook .

Important tips:
1. Many sources write that frozen meat is not suitable for cooking barbecue. But, it is worth paying attention that fresh meat is also not suitable for this. It is best to take a carcass that has been sagging for at least several days.
  2. Pieces of meat for barbecue should be cut into one piece. So then, in the process of absorbing a dish, a person does not have to think about how to bite and chew meat.
  3. The back, tenderloin and shoulder blade are the best meat for beef skewers.
  4. Do not put too many spices and seasonings in the marinade. They should not overshadow the taste of meat, but only emphasize it.
  5. Marinade can be done at your own discretion, adding various kinds of seasonings and additives to it. So you will succeed through trial and error to achieve your ideal taste.
  6. To make the meat as soft as possible, in the process of pickling it must be massaged, which will soften the fibers.

What to serve with barbecue

Of course, beef from the barbecue itself is the queen of the table, but do not forget that kebabs must be able to properly serve in the table. In particular, the presence of a large number of very different greens is mandatory. Also think about fresh vegetables, it is not necessary to make a salad, just simply chop large vegetables and put on the table. A great option for the table -.

Interesting! If you choose the most delicious marinade so that the meat is soft, then beef skewers can also be easily and quickly cooked in the oven. Yes, perhaps it will not be as fragrant as the one cooked on charcoal. But, you must admit that in the cold season, even the distant taste of summer barbecue is already incomparable pleasure. If the meat is pre-marinated like a barbecue, then even in the oven it will turn out to create a special taste.

It’s great if there are different types of sauces, bread on the barbecue table. Also remember that the presence of some kind of dense side dish to such meat is not required. Beef skewers: the most delicious marinade, so that the meat is soft and juicy to cook with us is a pleasure. We hope that you will be able, on the basis of the above recipes, to derive your ideal marinade form for this type of meat.

Barbecue in nature - what could be better ?! Every vacationer would like to pamper themselves and their loved ones with a juicy fragrant dish.

Delicious meat fried on coals, smelling of smoke from a bonfire, for the sake of this, people leave the city for nature. But how insulting and how the mood spoils, if instead of the expected meal you get something inedible - a burnt rubber chewing gum, one kind of which can spoil both appetite and mood.

If the kebab is prepared from beef meat, failure is not at all uncommon. To avoid disappointment, we turn to the right ways to cook beef skewers.

The secrets of marinating beef

Beef refers to the type of meat that, at the slightest error in the choice or method of pickling, risks being not only tasteless, but also inedible. The very first step is to choose beef for kebab correctly:

• You should not buy frozen meat - the kebab will turn out to be dry and hard. You need to choose only chilled meat;
• The purchase of "ready" barbecue in the supermarket is the wrong step. It is very difficult to predict what will come out of it;
• For beef skewers, it is better to choose rump, tenderloin with fat or the inside of the back leg.

By following these rules, you can be sure of half success. It remains to properly pickle the selected meat. But deciding on the choice of the method of pickling is also a question that is worth considering.

Beef Kebab Marinade Recipes

There are many ways to marinate beef. The composition of the marinades is different, but they are united by one requirement - a sufficiently long period of aging of meat in them. Below we turn directly to marinade recipes, choosing the best ways to marinate beef for barbecue.

With vinegar

Beef should first be cut into large enough pieces, beat off. Then cut off the chunks already portioned.

Salt, put in a pan or bowl. Chop the onion thinly and add to the meat with a mixture of peppers.

Sprinkle with vinegar and marinate under oppression for at least 6 hours. It is possible for a longer time, it will not be worse.

With mayonnaise

Quite often, in beef marinade recipes, such an ingredient as mayonnaise is found. The beef in the mayonnaise marinade is very juicy and incredibly tasty.

In order to prepare such a marinade, you will need:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Any mayonnaise - 800 g;
• Lemon - 2 pieces large or 4 pieces medium;
• Garlic head - 1 piece;
• Black pepper, laurel and salt are added to taste.

Lemon should be washed and dried. On a grater you need to grate the peel of a lemon, put it aside for now.

Squeeze juice out of lemon. Chop the garlic. Cut the beef meat into pieces, put in a pan.

Separately, mix mayonnaise with pepper, lemon juice, lemon peel until smooth. Pour the resulting marinade into the meat.

Mix everything very well, pre-salt. The pan is covered and sent to the refrigerator for 12 hours - this is the time required for marinating.

We offer you to watch a video recipe for marinating beef for barbecue in mayonnaise:

With wine

An unforgettable and unique aroma will be obtained from a barbecue prepared according to this recipe. For him you will need:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Large head of onion - 3 pieces;
• Provencal herbs - 3 pinches;
• Table red wine - about 1/4 liter;
• The remaining spices and salt are added to taste.

Cut the washed beef medium-sized. Cut the onion into rings, add to the cooked pieces. Stir, wrinkling with your hands to stand out onion juice.

Salt and pepper to taste, add Provencal herbs, mix everything again. Pour all the wine.

Put the pan in a cool place for about 8-10 hours. After this time, the kebab should be ready for frying.

With kiwi

To prepare a recipe for kiwi marinade for beef skewers, you will need the following components:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Onion head - 6-7 large pieces;
• Mineral water with gas - 2 glasses;
• Kiwi - 1 piece;
• Black pepper (ground or peas) - to taste;
• Bay leaf - 3 pieces.

The meat is cut into pieces, and onion cut into rings or half rings is added to it. Pepper and bay leaf also join the total mass.

Peel the kiwi and grate, add to the meat. Pour everything with mineral water and leave to marinate for at least 3 hours. Ideal - leave overnight.

In the video, you will learn about the simplest beef marinade, which will also use mineral water, but the rest of the ingredients are minimized. And we will bake a barbecue in the oven:

With pineapple

Beef barbecue in such a marinade is cooked very quickly, that is, time for pickling takes very little. The finished dish turns out to be a kind of very pleasant taste. In order to start the cooking process, you need to take:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Fresh large pineapple - 1 piece;
• Garlic - 1 piece;
• Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
• Wine vinegar - 200 ml;
• Onion head - 3 large pieces;
• Dried oregano - 3 tsp;
• Salt is added to taste.

Peel the garlic, peel the pineapple, and chop finely. Stir in a blender half slices of pineapple and whole garlic.

Add vinegar, dried oregano and vegetable oil. To salt. Everything again needs to be mixed vigorously, turning into a homogeneous puree.

The beef is cut into slices, laid out in a deep pan with marinade, everything is mixed. Onions are cut in half rings and laid out on top of the meat. The marinade aging time is about 4 hours.

During direct frying, meat slices, onions, and the remaining pineapple slices are placed in turn on the skewer.

With tomato paste

To prepare such a recipe for beef barbecue marinade, the following components will be required:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Table vinegar - 80 ml;
• Onion head - 5-6 pieces;
• Large lemon - 1 piece;
• Tomato paste - 200 g;
• Wine (white table) - 100 ml;
• Bay leaf, black pepper, salt - to taste.

Rinse the beef, then chop. The onion is cut into thin rings, it should be laid out at the bottom of the pan. Put pepper on top of it, then bay leaf, and salted meat on top.

Lay out another such layer. All to fill up with onions. Then pour vinegar and tomato paste.

Pickle a day under oppression. After this time, remove the meat, soak it separately from the onion in wine with the addition of lemon juice. Leave to marinate for another 3 hours.

With pomegranate juice

For cooking you will need:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Average lemon - 2 pieces;
• Vegetable oil: olive or sunflower - 2 tbsp. l .;
• Pomegranate juice - 1-1.5 l.;
• Fresh green cilantro - 1 bunch;
• Onion head - 3 pieces;
• Coriander, black pepper, salt - to taste.

The meat is cut into small pieces. It needs to be salt, add spices.

Cut the lemon into slices, add to the meat slices. To mix everything. Chop the onion and cilantro and add to the meat.

We mix everything. Add pomegranate juice and mix again. Do not forget to pour in vegetable oil, mix, leave for at least 8 hours.

In eastern

The unique aromatic taste of shish kebab in the east will make you turn again to this recipe. Would need:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp. l .;
• Garlic cloves - 6 pieces;
• Olive oil - 0.5 cups;
• Large lemon - 1 piece;
• Onion head - 2 pieces;
• Fresh parsley - 1 bunch;
• Black pepper and salt are added to taste.

Cut the beef into small pieces, sprinkle with pepper, salt, pour in olive oil, tomato sauce. Add chopped onions and garlic, chopped parsley to the mass.

Squeeze the juice from lemons and add it to the meat. Mix everything very well, cover with a film. Keep in the refrigerator for about 10 hours.

  The quality of the next mayonnaise bought at the store leaves much to be desired? Dont be upset! As soon as you taste the taste of homemade sauce, you will forever abandon all purchased mayonnaise.

About how to cook meatballs with rice in tomato sauce, read. They can be served with any side dish.

Do you like chicken skewers? If so, then for you. In it you will find recipes for delicious marinades, tips for choosing meat and other important recommendations for cooking amazing kebabs of chicken.

With kefir

The recipe for such a barbecue is simple. And the result will not disappoint. For him you will need:

• Beef meat - 2 kg;
• Kefir - 1.5 - 2 glasses;
• Lemon - 2 pieces;
• Garlic head - 1 piece;
• Ground black and red peppers, salt to taste.

Grate the skin of lemons, squeeze the juice out of the lemons themselves. Mix pepper, lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, kefir and chopped garlic in a saucepan. To mix everything.

Cut the beef, pour the marinade. It will be better if the meat is marinated for at least 12 hours in the refrigerator.

Cooking juicy and delicious beef skewers

An important point in the preparation of barbecue will be the choice of fuel for the fire. An ideal option would be to use dry fruit trees for these purposes.

If such material is not at hand, then it is better to use charcoal so as not to “run into” any toxic fuel.

It is well known that there are two ways to cook meat: on skewers and on the grill.

In all cases, you should adhere to the main rule: at the very initial stage of frying, avoid crusting, since the meat will turn out to be dry. It must first be fried, and already at the very end brown.

The cooking process is accompanied by constant spraying with water. This is done in order to prevent the flame from burning meat. And here we must try so that the water does not fall on the barbecue, otherwise it will be dry.

In order for the kebab to be juicy and tasty, one should not forget that the meat should not burn and carbonize during frying, and it should not smell like caustic smoke. After all, barbecue should be fried, and not smoked.

In the process of cooking barbecue there is a very important point - you can not be distracted. Spoil the meat, and after it the mood, you can in a few seconds.

If you try and do everything right, the result will delight those gathered for a barbecue meal.

Beef will be softer if beaten off before pickling.

No need to cut the beef into very small pieces - the kebab will turn out dry. Large pieces are also not good - inside they will remain raw. The optimal size is the average size of the meat pieces.

When soaking meat for future barbecue, one must not forget that the prepared amount of marinade should be such that it completely covers the meat.

All the secrets of cooking beef kebab will be told by Stalik Khankishiyev in the video below: