Red Wine Marinade and Herbed Oil

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This is simply a fat-free, full-flavored marinade. Instead of adding oil, Gastronomer columnist Andreas Viestad makes a abstracted herb-infused lipid (using the aforesaid spices recovered successful the marinade) that helium combines with a spot of the marinade for a post-grilling exertion to the meat.

For a much aggravated reddish vino flavor, boil 1 cupful of vino implicit precocious vigor until it has reduced to astir 1/4 cup, past harvester it with 1/4 cupful (uncooked) reddish vino to marque the 1/2 cupful of reddish vino utilized successful the marinade.

By combining a small herbed lipid with a spot of the marinade and applying the substance to the steak aft it has been grilled (see related look successful Recipe Finder), you volition get caller herb flavors and aromas, the fragile compounds that usually get mislaid with cooking.

It's champion to marque the reddish vino marinade and herbed lipid the aforesaid time they are to beryllium used.

From Gastronomer columnist Andreas Viestad.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 0.66 Makes astir 2/3 cupful marinade and 4 tablespoons herbed oil

For the marinade

1/2 cupful reddish wine, preferably 1/4 cupful reddish vino simplification and 1/4 cupful reddish wine; spot headnote)
1 mean to 3 mean cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons finely chopped bulb oregon shallot
2 teaspoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 spoon to 2 teaspoons bruised oregon chopped thyme leaves
1 bay leaf, crushed
1 tablespoonful low-sodium soy sauce
1 spoon coarsely crushed achromatic pepper
1 spoon sweetener (optional)
1 tablespoonful brandy (optional)
1 tablespoonful Dijon-style mustard (optional)

For the herbed oil

Handful assorted herbs, specified arsenic parsley, thyme and (a little) sage
1 mean clove ail (optional)
1/4 cupful olive oregon sunflower oil
2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons Red Wine Marinade (optional; spot headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per tablespoonful serving (red vino marinade only)

Calories
12
Carbohydrates
1 g
Sodium
57 mg

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Gastronomer columnist Andreas Viestad.

Tested by Amy Orndorff.

Published March 12, 2026