Wine And Spice Marinade Recipe

I love Tri Tip steaks, and this Red Wine Marinated Tri Tip steak is one of the most common ways our fans like to prepare this delicious hunk of beef. If you know about Tri Tips, there’s a decent chance you first learned about them in California, where they’re super popular. Another super popular item from California is red wine. Put together, red wine and tri tip become an incredibly flavorful meal that’ll feed a crowd.

Tri tip steaks come from the sirloin portion of a beef animal. They’re triangular in shape, if you couldn’t guess from the name, and are a certified lean cut of beef, which is awesome for people watching fat intake. They possess deep beef flavor, which I love, and are moderately tender, which is a great combination. To get the best out of this steak, we recommend thinly slicing it across the grain of the meat to help make it easier to chew.

The red wine marinade part of this Red Wine Marinated Tri Tip is a simple recipe. At Lake Geneva Country Meats, we want to be honest about home marinades. It’s important to know that they don’t tenderize meat and they only add flavor to the outside of the meat. That’s okay though, because the flavor on the outside is delicious and these facts mean you don’t need to do a long, overnight marinade to get the flavor you want. Just let the meat rest in the marinade for 30 minutes – one hour, and you’ll end up with great flavor on the outside of the meat with a bit “juicier” mouthfeel.

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Tri Tips are a big hunk of meat and need a little extra care on the grill. They’re a bit too thick to just be quickly seared on each side, but they’re not really a “cook low and slow in a crock pot” type of cut either. For this red wine marinated tri tip steak recipe, we recommend a two step or two zone cooking method where you start cooking the meat over indirect heat to bring it up to temperature, then a final, quick sear over high heat to finish the steak. If you want to cook a Tri Tip low and slow, check out our Smoked Chimichurri Tri Tip Steak recipe – it’s probably my favorite tri tip recipe!

A Red Wine Marinated Tri Tip Steak needs to be paired with red wine! For the marinade, we recommend just using an inexpensive dry red wine. It really won’t matter if you use “good” wine or even “every day” wine – just use something very affordable that isn’t flawed. However, to drink with the steak, we recommend a Zinfandel or Cabernet Sauvignon from California. There are big flavors in this beef and big flavors in the wine. They work together perfectly. I also like to serve this with oven roasted vegetables like red potatoes and Brussels sprouts, but you pick your own favorite sides.

If you’ve never cooked a tri tip steak before, this Red Wine Marinated Tri Tip steak recipe is a great place for you to start. It’s easy to make and in our opinion incredibly delicious. If you’re looking for other recipe ideas, we have plenty of tri tip steak recipes, or you can learn more about the cut and recipe ideas on the Beef Council’s website. We hope you enjoy the recipe and leave us a comment with your thoughts. We appreciate your feedback. Cheers – Nick.

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Originally from Croatia, Zinfandel is now best known as a California grape. It’s full bodied, high alcohol and packed with big fruit flavors.

Cab is king, and for good reason! This grape produces big, full bodied red wines that are a go to for many people. You can find good examples at many price points from $10 to $1, 000!Red wine and red meat are a classic pairing, so what could be better than a juicy steak that’s been infused with a red wine steak marinade?

Perfect for flank steaks or sirloins, this easy and irresistible marinade infuses your steak with a subtle red wine flavor and adds a touch of sweetness where the marinade caramelizes on the meat’s exterior. Marinate for as little as an hour or up to 24 hours for a bolder flavor.

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I originally created this red wine steak marinade for flank steak to use in this recipe for Blue Cheese and Steak Crostini with Blueberry Caramelized Onion Jam. The marinated steak was incredible. However, when paired with the blue cheese and and jam, the marinated steak was just too much flavor. I ended up recommending using simply-seasoned flank steak with just olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Later, I tried pairing it with this Seared Steak Salad with Soy Ginger Vinaigrette. Again, the steak was amazing and I wanted to eat the whole thing myself. But the flavor didn’t complement the soy ginger vinaigrette.

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So now I’m doing what I should have done in the first place: Just appreciating this addictive red wine steak marinade for its own sake, to use on a steak that will certainly be the star of your dinner. It’s really so good it doesn’t need anything besides a nice flank steak or sirloin to soak it all up, grilled or broiled to a nice medium rare, and served with a simple veggie side and some rice.

This marinade can be used for 1-2 lbs of steak. My husband and I can demolish a pound of this steak in one meal, so I’d allow for at least half a pound per person.

This red wine marinade is easy to whip up in a couple minutes and can flavor your steak in as little as an hour (although I recommend longer, up to all day, to infuse more of its irresistible flavor).

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Combine all ingredients (red wine, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, olive oil, pressed garlic, and rosemary) in a heavy duty gallon-sized ziplock bag. Get most of the air out, seal the bag, and squish it around with your hands a bit to mix the ingredients and dissolve the brown sugar.

Open the bag again and add your raw steak. Remove most of the air and seal the bag. Fold the bag over so as much marinade touches the steak as possible. Refrigerate for at least one hour and up to 24 hours.

Don’t marinate too long, though, or prolonged contact with the acid in the marinade can end up toughening the meat or breaking it down too much, causing the outside to become mushy.

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Remove the steak and let as much of the marinade drip back into the bag as possible. Excess marinade pooling on a sheet pan can burn easily under a broiler, making for a smoky kitchen at dinnertime.

For a perfect, medium rare flank steak: Place the steak on a sheet pan (line with tin foil for easy cleanup, which I did not do here). Preheat your broiler and arrange your oven rack so the steak is 4-6″ from the heating element. For my oven, that’s the second slot from the top.

Broil for 4-5 minutes on each side. Remove from the oven and let the steak rest for 5 minutes before cutting. Slice thinly across the grain (very important for what can easily be a very tough cut of meat due to the long fibers).

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As I mentioned at the top of the post, this steak will definitely be the star of your dinner! Here’s how I recommend fleshing out the rest of the menu.

If you’re having company or a date night at home, you can also pair it with a simple green salad and an appetizer. I recommend one of my crostini recipes.

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Red wine and red meat are a classic pairing, so what could be better than a juicy steak that's been infused with a red wine steak marinade?

Perfect for flank steaks or sirloins, this easy marinade infuses your steak with a subtle red wine undertone and adds a touch of sweetness where the marinade caramelizes on the meat's exterior. Marinate for as little as an hour or up to 24 hours for a bolder flavor.