Italian Salad Dressing and Venison

[Ben]

So I got hooked up to some Venison and Elk, and I made some of the venison today. I was looking for some interesting recipes and stumbled upon one where they used Italian salad dressing. I was like, "Wut?", but reading the reviews, it got a lot of thumbs up, so I gave it a try, altered to my tastes.

Pierced steak all over with a fork. Salt and peppered both sides of the steak like I usually do, added a tad of Kansas City rub, then very lightly dribbled some Italian dressing on both sides and rubbed it in really well. I let it sit for a couple of hours, then put it in a good and hot carbon steel pan with a little olive oil and butter. Three minutes per side to a medium rare.

It was REALLY good. Some of the best venison I remember having. I'm gonna try this dressing trick on other steaks as well.

[K Frame]

I've done that before with beef. Italian dressing does a very good job of seasoning the meat.

[makattak]

It's a quick and easy chicken recipe for me. I'll have to try it on steak as well.

[charby]

I remember in the 80s, used to be recipes on the bottle for marinating meat with Italian dressing.

[MillCreek]

Sign me up also with using this with chicken.  I used to also buy the Paul Newman's Lime Dressing as a chicken marinade, until I read the bottle and thought I could make this from scratch for cheaper.  I like to marinade chicken thighs and then grill them.  Delicious.

[Declaration Day]

Yep Italian dressing makes a great universal meat marinade.  As for chicken though, I slightly prefer balsamic over Italian.