Just prepped some lamb chops with balsamic lemon rosemary garlic marinade. Gonna grill them on charcoal tomorrow for Easter and serve with green beans and roast potatoes. The Costco butcher department is amazing.
So the grilling was a success:
Was excellent.
Marinade Recipe:
- 1 Fresh lemon
- Bottled Lemon Juice
- 4 cloves of garlic, chopped finely
- 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary, chopped finely
- 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2-ish tsp Salt (i just sort of eyeball it)
- Pepper (again, i just sort of eyeball it, did about 30 grounds)
Finely chop the garlic and rosemary. Squeeze the lemon juice, top up w/ bottled juice if less than 1/3 cup. Add in vinegar and olive oil. Add in garlic and rosemary. Finally, zest the lemon and add into the marinade. Stir everything with a fork until it mixes. Marinate lamb in a plastic baggie overnight.
As for the charcoal grill, if you have one, you owe it to yourself to get the charcoal baskets for cooking things like lamb and steak, it means you can put the heat towards the outside of the grill and indirectly cook the food. Especially useful with lamb which is kind of fatty - the rendered fat would drip down onto the charcoal pile and burn which carbonizes the meat. With the basket setup, this doesnt happen. It cooks slightly more slowly but far more evenly. Also, dont use that Kingsford bullshit, I use Cowboy Hardwood Briquets, you can get them at Walmart. They burn much more slowly, evenly and have much better smoke flavor.