A marinade is a sauce of oil, vinegar, spices, and herbs, which you pour over meat or fish before you cook it, in order to add flavour, or to make the meat or fish softer
A highly seasoned liquid in which foods are soaked Marinating foods permits them to absorb the flavor of the marinade Most marinades contain a acid of some sort (lemon juice, vinegar, wine) which aid in tenderizing meats
Before they are cooked, ingredients such as meat or tofu are sometimes placed in a spicy mixture, called a "marinade", that flavours then and makes them tender
To marinade means the same as to marinate. Marinade the chicken breasts in the tandoori paste Leave to marinade for 24 hours. a mixture of oil and spices in which meat or fish is put for a time before cooking (marinada, from marinar , from marinus; MARINE)