My aunt brought this marinade to the family from Hawaii, and it is incredibly delicious. The flavor is teriyaki. We marinade the meat before grilling it over a gas flame.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day |
| Total Time: | 1 day 20 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 3 cups |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups vegetable oil
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon chopped green onion
- ¼ teaspoon dried rosemary
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 clove garlic, minced
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together vegetable oil, lemon juice, green onion, rosemary, thyme, oregano and garlic. Place beef or chicken in the marinade. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator approximately 24 hours before grilling as desired.
Reviews
Great marinade. I substituted half of a cup of lime juice for half of a cup of oil, and I used extra virgin olive oil instead of vegetable oil. Also I make half recipes and marinate 4 chicken breasts at a time.
Nicely flavored marinade; did not find the lemon to be overpowering at all. Used 1 part olive oil and 2parts canola oil for oil. Substituted a little onion powder for the green onions, and added some cumin, marojam, and red pepper flakes for additional flavor. Drizzled a little marinade on the fajita veggies when cooking those.
This was really good! We soaked the chicken for about 45 minutes, then grilled it, and it was fantastic. I actually used the leftover marinade (after heating it long enough to cook the raw meat bits) and fried the fajita peppers in it – it was amazing!!
2 days of marination and on the barbeque; just 3 stars.
This is easy and tasty. I added some chili powder for a little extra kick and is was great.
Not something will make again. I used bottled lemon jc vs fresh, which may have made a difference, but even so it’s not worth a cup of squeezed lemon jc for me to make again. My family just really didn’t care for the strong lemon taste. Sorry=(
We had a packet of fajita seasoning but I wanted to try something new. Found this recipe with the majority of reviews showing it was good. Should have listened to the ones who were negative instead. We ended up adding the seasoning into the marinade while we were cooking because it was just so bland. Sorry – white cider vinegar couldn’t even save this.
TOO Oily!
If you like lemon flavoring, you will like this. I took four chicken breasts and had them sit in the marinade for four hours. Then, I fried them in some of the marinade for 12 minutes on each side in a skillet. I took out the breasts to slice and added the following things to the skillet: 2 chopped green peppers, half an onion, 1/2 Tbsp. of minced garlic, which I had sprinkled some rosemary, thyme, and oregano over. I cooked those in a little more of the marinade and then added the sliced chicken. It was pretty good, though I think a little more rosemary, thyme, and oregano would make it better. It was very lemony; I’m going to try and let it marinate for 24 hours next time to see if it gets more flavor. All in all, I enjoyed this recipe and would definitely make it again.
I really liked this but, we exchanged the lemon and onions for lime and cilatra , because thats what we had in the house and it came out great!
Yummy! I used it on chicken breasts cut in strips and also pepper steak. Really good on both for fajitas. And easy! It doesn’t need so much oil, though. I cut the oil by about half.
This is a great fajita recipe! It’s very delicious. I had experimented with several ways to make fajitas, and this is what I always use now. I just throw the seasonings in and let it simmer in the skillet. It saves time on preparing ahead of time.
I have not tried this marinade. but I wiil. However I will be adding vinegar, Cumin and chopped cilantro.
Haven’t tried this on chicken, but works very well with flank steak. Yum!
I didn’t care for the strength of the lemon flavor or for the excessive amount of oil. I won’t be making this again.
Pretty good-kid friendly.
It was pretty good. However we could really taste the lemon.
My whole family loved it! Our new favorite marinade.
Very easy & very tasty.
It literally tastes sour – and I usually like lemon.
Made this last night. The spice flavors were good, it just needed some salt. Just a little too bland for me.