Dinner of the Week: Balsamic Vinaigrette Marinated Grilled Tri Tip with Dude Food Potato Salad

I recently got to spend some time with my family and got to talking about food with my Aunt and Uncle who live in Wyoming. My Uncle mentioned a must-have tool for anybody who loves to grill meat. It was the Jaccard meat tenderizer.

We talked about the different cuts of meat he uses it on and I was, of course, very interested. About a week later I received my own meat tenderizer in the mail, sent from said Aunt and Uncle. Included was two recipes they thought I would enjoy. The recipe I chose to try was the Tri Tip.

BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE MARINATED GRILLED TRI TIP

2.5-3 pound Tri Tip

1 bottle of Balsamic Vinaigrette salad dressing

First start by trimming any of the excess fat off the meat. Then tenderize the meat using the Jaccard tenderizer as the directions state. Second, place the meat in a one gallon Ziploc bag and fill with salad dressing and seal tightly. Place bag in a dish so it won’t leak and place in the refrigerator at least overnight and up to two days before you grill it.

I marinated the tri tip for about 24 hours and it had great flavor. When you are ready to grill, make sure you let the meat come up to room tempeture. I heated my coals and ended up cooking the tri tip for about 20 minutes and then let it rest for another 10 minutes and it came out a perfect medium rare.

The finished product

When you slice the meat, make sure to slice against the grain, and keep the slices thin. This keeps the meat from being tough. The Jaccard tenderizer was a huge success. The meat was extremely tender and didn’t even need a knife to be cut. If you like grilling meat, go out and give one a shot. Or even better, hire Dude Food for your next event and we’ll do all the hard work!

Sliced thin and served up

As for the potato salad, well you are just going to have to stay tuned for that recipe. I’m not quite ready to give up on that little secret. But I will tell you there is bacon and blue cheese so it’s pretty delicious. Keep an eye on Dude Food for the recipe in the near future. Enjoy the pictures and I hope you go out and get your own tenderizer, it’s well worth it.