Tenderizing and Flavorful Steak Marinade

Needed to do a quick post on this steak recipe that I made today:

Flank Steak Roll with Spinach and Garlic 

Doesn't this look amazing? I found this recipe on the clean eating website and since spinach is one of the few vegetables that my husband really likes, I couldn't resist trying a steak recipe that I could sneak a little greens into. The best part about this is that its a fancy/pretty steak recipe that doesn't use an expensive cut of meat so this would be a perfect for entertaining without putting a big dent in your wallet.

You can find the full recipe along with a helpful picture slideshow here

Since the recipe uses flank steak which is naturally a tougher and chewier cut, I made a slight but crucial alternation to the recipe by first tenderizing, dry rubbing and then marinating the steak overnight.

Note: I may have ruined the whole concept of a "clean eating" recipe by adding the marinade, but the flavor payoff was soooo worth it.

I first cut then steak in half horizontally like the recipe indicates and then tenderized the meat by pounding it with the sharp side of my heavy duty meat mallet.

I then dry rubbed the meat with Lawry's garlic salt and black pepper. These two ingredients are my mother-in-law's secret weapons for cooking. They make everything taste good. The most important ingredient is the garlic salt. I've tried other brands before but Lawry's has the best flavor.

Last I whipped up this marinade and put it in a large ziploc bag with the steak to soak overnight. The resulting flavor was DIVINE.

Here's the marinade recipe: 

2 tbs soy sauce 

2 tbs worchestchire sauce 

2 tbs olive oil 

juice of 1 meyer lemon 

1 tbs white wine vinegar 

1 tbs honey