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Sweet and Tangy Marinade with Olive Oil and Lemon Juice
This sweet yet tart marinade makes a change from the more common lemon juice and olive oil only marinades. The olive oil and lemon juice are key components in this flavorful vegetable marinade and the mustard and garlic add a piquancy. The maple syrup adds a soft sweetness and the basil gives this marinade an aromatic touch. All in all, this is perhaps one of the best gourmet vegetable marinade recipes of all because the flavor is so well balanced. You can make this marinade up to seven days in advance and keep it in a covered dish in the refrigerator.
If you are looking for something a bit unusual, this delicious vegetable marinade recipe is heartily recommended. The flavors merge beautifully and you can use this marinade on any vegetables you like. Mushrooms, onions, and bell pepper go well with this, as would eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, and asparagus. You can make aluminum foil envelopes for the vegetables or cook them on skewers. If you are going to use small vegetables like corn, it is obviously easier to use the foil envelopes, or to use a grilling basket. Just use your judgment based on the vegetables you have chosen, since there are different grilling methods suited to different veggies.
Some oriental marinade recipes have a sweet edge to them, like this maple syrup marinade does, and this marinade manages to be sweet yet tart simultaneously. The fresh basil is brilliant in this recipe, especially if you use tomatoes as one of the vegetables because tomatoes and basil are a wonderful mixture. If you have some lemon juice and olive oil and you were wondering what to add to the olive oil and lemon juice mixture to make a good marinade, now you know. The following recipe is sure to delight you. As a guide to vegetable quantity, use half a zucchini, one bell pepper and half an onion with this marinade, or an equivalent amount of other vegetables.
Basil Maple Marinade
Ingredients -
½ cup lemon juice
½ cup olive oil
2 tablespoons minced garlic
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves
¼ cup water
½ teaspoon black pepper
¼ cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons maple syrup
Preparation:
Whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt, basil, water, pepper, mustard, and maple syrup together in a bowl.
Add prepared vegetables and allow them to marinate for a few hours, before grilling them over a medium heat until tender.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
Lemon juice and olive oil provide the basis for this exciting grilled vegetables marinade recipe. Garlic, basil, maple syrup and more are added to the olive oil and lemon juice to transform the mixture into an amazing marinade, which works well with pretty much any vegetables you can think of. Since this is a gourmet marinade recipe, why not use something special like asparagus or artichoke hearts? Porcini mushrooms are another good idea. A lot of marinades contain white sugar to give sweetness but the maple syrup in this recipe is great because it gives flavor as well as sweetness.
