Best Beef Marinade
The Best Beef Marinade that is packed with flavor for grilling steaks or roast beef. It is super simple to make and uses pantry ingredients that you most likely have on hand. Add this easy marinade to your grilling menu!
This marinade helps to tenderize the meat by breaking down the muscle fibers. It also helps keep the meat moist while grilling and you are sure to love the amazing flavor it gives top sirloin, flank steak and cheaper cuts of beef.
Ingredients for the Best Beef Marinade
- Soy Sauce – we like the low sodium soy sauce or light soy sauce.
- Olive Oil
- Lemon Juice or substitute any citrus juice that you have on hand
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Brown Sugar
- Granulated Garlic
- Smoked Paprika
- Coarse Ground Black Pepper
- Dried Onion Flakes
- Dried Basil
- Dry Mustard
- Kosher Salt
- Red Pepper Flakes
How to Make the Best Marinade for Flavorful Steaks
- Mix marinade ingredients together in a large bowl until sugar is dissolved.
- Pour over beef roast or steak and marinate for 4- 8 hours.
Marinade can be made a day in advance and kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
How to Marinate Roast Beef
- Place roast in a zip top bag or casserole dish. Pour marinade over beef.
- Use a fork or knife and pierce the meat all over, forcing the marinade down into the meat.
- Cover with plastic wrap or place in a zip top bag and refrigerate 4 – 8 hours.
- Remove marinated roast from refrigerator to come to room temperature about an hour before grilling.
The same method will also work for any cut of steak and is ideal for tougher cuts of beef.
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How to Grill Marinated Roast Beef
- Prepare a grill fire to about 300° with hickory wood for smoke flavor.
- Place Roast over indirect fire and cook with the lid closed for 1 hour.
- Use a digital thermometer to check the internal temperature of the roast and cook to desired doneness with the lid closed.
Internal Temperatures for Roast Beef
- Rare: 130°
- Medium Rare: 140°
- Medium: 155°
- Well Done: 165°
- Remove roast beef from the grill about 5 degrees before desired doneness and temperature will come up as it rests. We cooked our roast to about 140° and it took about an hour. The grill temperature stayed between 250- 300°.
- Allow roast to rest about 10- 15 minutes before slicing.
How to Store and Reheat
- Storage: Place leftovers in an airtight container for up to 4 days in the refrigerator.
- Reheat; Cook in a skillet with about 2 tablespoons of water or beef broth. Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes, stirring often.
More Beef Marinades to Try
- Fajita Marinade makes the most delicious steak fajitas.
- Mustard Marinade is an easy recipe that is great for beef cuts like London Broil or Bottom Round Roast.
- Steak Rub for Dry Rub Marinade for different cuts of steak like NY Strip or Grilled Ribeye Steaks.
This is the best steak marinade recipe and we have a great recipe and tips for perfect Grilled T-Bone Steaks.
If you are looking for a good marinade for juicy steaks or tender roast beef, give this recipe a try. After you have grilled it, slice it up for sandwiches or beef tacos topped with salsa fresca.
The flavor combination of the marinade along with the hickory smoke made this one of the very best roast beef recipes that we’ve ever tasted.
Best Beef Marinade
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil
- ⅓ cup soy sauce
- ⅓ cup lemon juice
- ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons granulated garlic
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon coarse ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 2 teaspoons dry mustard
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 3 pound roast beef
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk together olive oil, soy sauce, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar.
- Whisk in granulated garlic, smoked paprika, black pepper, dried onion flakes, basil, dry mustard, salt and red pepper flakes.
- Store in an airtight container until ready to use. Can be made a day in advance.
- Pour marinade over roast in a baking dish.
- Pierce roast with a fork or knife all over, pushing the marinade down into the meat.
- Cover and refrigerate 4- 8 hours.
- Remove from refrigerator one hour before grilling.
- Heat grill to 300° with hickory for smoke flavor.
- Cook roast over indirect heat with the lid closed for one hour.
- Check internal temperature with a digital thermometer and continue to cook until desired doneness.
Notes
INTERNAL TEMPERATURES FOR ROAST BEEF:
- Rare: 130°
- Medium Rare: 140°
- Medium: 155°
- Well Done: 165°
Do you cook the roast with marinade ?
Your marinade was amazing!!! My husband loved it even after he looked at the ingredients and said “you’re not putting all that stuff in it are you?” Thank you so much for sharing. I will follow your site!
Amazing, followed marinade and let baron of beef 6 pounds over night. Put on spit with apple, hickory and mesquite chips for smoke. Sprinkled some “Killer Hog : The BBQ Rub” before cooking and it turned out amazing! Best marinade I have found to date! Thanks so much.
OMG!!! This is soooo good! Best way we’ve grilled a beef roast EVER!! And we ALL love it! Thanks for sharing!
I plan on using this recipe for marinade and am looking forward to the results!
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Have you tried browning this in a skillet then putting it in the oven?
Hi Cassandra,
That would work just fine. I hope you enjoy it.
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