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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marinade
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
excess
▪ Cook the lamb Drain off the excess marinade and reserve, then pat the lamb steaks dry with kitchen paper.
▪ Wipe excess marinade off quail and grill quail, skin side down, over hot coals for 4 to 5 minutes.
▪ Wipe off excess marinade before cooking.
■ VERB
combine
▪ It combines both a marinade and a basting sauce.
remove
▪ Prepare a fire in a charcoal grill. Remove pheasant from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels.
▪ Reserve fat in skillet. Remove rabbit pieces from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels.
▪ Preheat oven to 350 F. Remove meats from marinade.
▪ Let stand at room temperature for 2 hours, or refrigerate overnight. Remove duck from marinade.
reserve
▪ Remove squab from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels.
▪ Stir in cup beef consomme and the reserved marinade.
▪ Remove chicken from bag, reserving marinade.
▪ Mix in 1 tablespoon of the reserved artichoke marinade.
▪ Thread the scallops on to skewers, reserving the marinade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any cut of meat, chicken or fish will benefit from this marinade - so simple and useful.
▪ Baste every 15 minutes with marinade.
▪ Grill poussins under moderately high heat for 15-20 minutes on each side, basting with the marinade.
▪ Mix all the other ingredients to make a marinade and put the kebabs into the marinade for about 40 minutes.
▪ Place meat or game birds in marinade and refrigerate for 4 to 6 hours or overnight.
▪ Place the chicken in a shallow dish, coat with the marinade and leave for at least 2 hours.
▪ Remove squab from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marinade

Marinade \Mar`i*nade"\, n. [F.: cf. It. marinato marinade, F. mariner to preserve food for use at sea. See Marinate.] (Cookery) A brine or pickle containing wine or vinegar, with opil, herbs, and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish, which are steeped in it prior to cooking.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marinade

1704, from French marinade "spiced vinegar or brine for pickling," from mariner "to pickle" (see marinate). As a verb from 1680s. Related: Marinaded; marinading.

Wiktionary
marinade

n. A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking. vb. To marinate.

WordNet
marinade
  1. n. mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking

  2. v. soak in marinade; "marinade herring" [syn: marinate]

Usage examples of "marinade".

Add the cumin to a food processor or blender with all the remaining marinade ingredients except the oil.

Skin a large cut of sturgeon, parboil for fifteen minutes, drain, cover with a marinade of oil and vinegar, and let stand for an hour.

He had toasted his pine nuts with a bit of salt and thyme, and was getting ready to brown the chicken with the habanero peppers, sitting in its marinade.

This flavorful peanut butter-like sauce is used mostly in sauces for cold dishes or salads, and occasionally in marinades.

I avoid the tea and the white rice, and worry a little about the sugars in the marinades and the sauces.

The garlic, berries, and spices were sauteed a bit, and men dumped, hissing hot, into the rest of the marinade.

By altering the ingredients of the marinade artfully, human chefs are able to create infinite variations on what at first seems like an unpromising theme.

There were date pastries, date punch, date salad, date bread, and date-stuffed-everything and everything-stuffed-dates, with all options either marinaded in palm wine, fried in palm oil, or both.

He sliced the bread, laying each piece in a randomly assembled marinade of herbs and macadamia oil, then he wiped his hands.

It was some kind of whole-grain barley salad with bits and pieces of vegetables in it, marinaded in oil and vinegar.

Nevertheless, we had a ragout of pigeon, marinaded in the wine of those lands, and roast rabbit, Saint Clare’s pasties, rice with the almonds of those hills—the blanc-mange of fast days, that is—and borage tarts, stuffed olives, fried cheese, mutton with a sauce of raw peppers, white broad beans, and exquisite sweets, Saint Bernard’s cake, Saint Nicholas’s pies, Saint Lucy’s dumplings, and wines, and herb liqueurs that put everyone in a good humor, even Bernard Gui, usually so austere: an elixir of lemon verbena, walnut wine, wine against the gout, and gen­tian wine.

This had been fish— raw, hut seasoned, and marinaded in the juice of freshly squeezed limes.

However, a combination of one of Matsugae's marinades and cooking over a slow fire resulted in a surprisingly delectable vegetable course.

I stared and stumbled amid the smell of things roasted and things baked, spices and marinades, leaking mountains of butters and cheeses .

What was the best ratio of olive oil to raspberry vinegar for the quail marinade?