This Asian London Broil recipe is a delicious make ahead meal made in minutes the night before serving. Marinate the meat with fresh ingredients 12-24 hours before cooking, then grill for 15 minutes. Serve with rice, veggies, and a salad and dinner is complete.
You will find a London Broil on my menu just about every single month. If I’m not making an Asian marinade for steak for this Asian London Broil recipe. Then, I’m making my Pacific Rim Glazed London Broil or my Grilled Balsamic London Broil recipe.
Year’s ago, I bought London Broil for the first time and wasn’t sure what to do with it. I learned real quick that you need to have a great marinade. When I started making this cut of beef it sometimes was our only red meat we would consume for the month. After having kids, I craved beef and so I always have steak on the menu at least a few times a month.
Our local grocery store typically has a buy-one-get-one-free (BOGO) deal once a month on London Broil making it very affordable, and if marinated and cooked correctly this can be delicious cut of meat. If I can’t find it on BOGO then I’ll pick it up at my local wholesale club.
This Asian-style marinade is perfect for entertaining or an everyday meal. Best of all you make the marinade before hand and let the steak start soaking up all the wonderful flavors. This steak dinner takes a little planning but totally worth it!
Table of contents
Ingredients
- Liquids – Soy sauce is the base followed by sesame oil. Don’t skimp on the sesame oil. It brings a lot of flavor with just a little amount.
- Vegetables – Minced onion, garlic, and ginger root (that’s actually a plant not a vegetable) help give this marinade life.
- Spices – I love to finish off the marinade with dried red pepper flakes for a little heat. If you have people who don’t like spicy you can omit this or add at the end.
- Sugar – Brown sugar sweetens up this marinate to cut the sodium from the soy sauce.
- Sesame Seeds – I love to toast just a tablespoon of sesame seeds.
- London Broil – This is the perfect cut of meat for this Asian marinade.
Directions
Asian marinade for steak
Place freezer zip lock baggy inside a container (to easily add all the contents of the marinade). Add soy sauce, minced onion, brown sugar, sesame oil, toasted* sesame seeds, ginger, garlic, and red pepper. Mix well, then add in the London Broil. Seal the bag and knead all the ingredients together.
Or you can mix in a mixing bowl as pictured above then transfer the marinade to the Ziploc baggy.
Marinade for 12-24 hours.
How to Cook London Broil
Once your ready to cook. Preheat grill to a medium-high heat. Clean prior to grilling steak.
Carefully remove steak from bag, and reserve marinade.
Grill for 10-16 minutes so that the steak is medium-rare to medium (depending on how you like your steak).
While steak is cooking add remaining marinade in a sauce pot. Cook on medium heat until the marinade has reduced to half. Remove from heat once it’s done reducing.
Let the steak sit for at least 5 minutes. Once ready, slice the steak against the grain in very thin slices. After the steak is cut drizzle the reduced marinade on top. Serve and enjoy.
FAQs
London Broil is one of the more cost effective cuts of meat. A lot of people won’t cook with it because they don’t know how. The key to London Broil is marinating the meat.
I always purchase my London Broil steak from a wholesale club like Costco or Sam’s Club. I find the prices always beat out the traditional grocery store and I can almost always get 2-3 large London Broil’s for the price of one at a traditional grocery store.
Top-round steak is sometimes sold as “London broil“. Flank steak is a thinner version of this thicker steak. London broil is a tougher less expensive cut of meat that breaks down with the right marinade and makes it fork tender.
The key to a juicy and not tough London Broil is to marinate the meat for at least 12 hours. This way the marinade will break down the tough tissue making it tastes better and not tough once cooked.
Yes, you can marinate the London Broil too long if their is too much acid or citrus in the marinade. It’s best to let the marinated steak sit for 12-24 hours. More then 24 hours and you risk ruining your beef.
Tips & Tricks
- Plan Ahead – Make sure you prep the marinate the night before you plan to serve. This cut of meat really needs 12-24 hours to marinate
- Toast sesame seeds prior to placing in the marinade. This will bring out a nutty flavor from the sesame seeds.
- Sealing bag – When making the marinade and sealing the bag. Make sure their is no excess air in the bag before sealing.
- Batch Marinating – When I make this marinade I typically make a few batches of marinade and in each bag of marinade I place a London broil, label the freezer bag and then freeze it. London broils that sit in a bag of marinade are perfect for freezing and then defrosting at a later date and cooking for dinner. Just think–while the steak defrost its also marinating at the same time. It’s another two-for-one deal.
- Frozen – If cooking a previously frozen steak make sure your steak is completely thawed out. I suggest pulling it out the night before you want to make the dinner. Place the frozen marinaded steak in the refrigerator to thaw.
- Cooking temperature – You never want to cook London Broil to a well done temperature. It will be very chewy and not very enjoyable! Keep it at a medium-rare to medium temperature max.
- Leftover meat? Make Asian steak and noodle wraps for lunch or dinner by using cooked spaghetti and Asian salad dressing with Julianne carrots, cucumber, and bell pepper. You can also have steak and eggs for breakfast, or a steak salad, or a steak and rice bowl. The sky is the limit on what you can do with these leftovers!
Asian Recipes
Love Asian food? Here are a few more of my favorite Asian-style recipes.
- Asian Cucumber Salad
- Grilled Asian Green Beans and Red Bell Peppers
- Sweet Chili Brussels Sprouts
- Asian Chicken Rice Soup
- Shrimp Fried Rice
- Asian Beef Skewers
- Grilled Asian Sweet and Spicy Sticky Drums
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Asian London Broil
Equipment
- Grill
- Stove Top
Ingredients
- ½ cup Soy sauce
- ¼ cup Minced fresh onion
- ¼ cup Brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon Sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon Toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon Grated fresh ginger
- 1 tablespoon Minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon Dried red pepper flakes
- 2 lb London broil
Instructions
- Place freezer zip lock baggy inside a container (to easily add all the contents of the marinade). Add soy sauce, minced onion, brown sugar, sesame oil, toasted* sesame seeds, ginger, garlic, and red pepper. Mix well, then add in the London Broil. Seal the bag and knead all the ingredients together.
- Marinade for 12-24 hours.
- Once your ready to cook. Preheat grill to a medium-high heat. Clean prior to grilling steak.
- Carefully remove steak from bag, and reserve marinade.
- Grill for 10-16 minutes so that the steak is medium-rare to medium (depending on how you like your steak).
- While steak is cooking add remaining marinade in a sauce pot. Cook on medium heat until the marinade has reduced to half. Remove from heat once it's done reducing.
- Let the steak sit for at least 5 minutes. Once ready, slice the steak against the grain in very thin slices. After the steak is cut drizzle the reduced marinade on top. Serve and enjoy.
Notes
- Toast sesame seeds prior to placing in the marinade. This will bring out a nutty flavor from the sesame seeds.
- Sealing bag – When making the marinade and sealing the bag. Make sure their is no excess air in the bag before sealing.
- Make ahead – I like to make multiple packages of Asian London Broil marinade and freeze them for future meals.
- Frozen – If cooking a previously frozen steak make sure your steak is completely thawed out. I suggest pulling it out the night before you want to make the dinner. Place the frozen marinaded steak in the refrigerator to thaw.
- Cooking temperature – You never want to cook London Broil to a well done temperature. It will be very chewy and not very enjoyable! Keep it at a medium-rare to medium temperature max.
- Leftover meat? Make Asian steak and noodle wraps for lunch or dinner by using cooked spaghetti and Asian salad dressing with Julianne carrots, cucumber, and bell pepper. You can also have steak and eggs for breakfast, or a steak salad, or a steak and rice bowl. The sky is the limit on what you can do with these leftovers!
Nutrition
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Steve @ the black peppercorn
looks delicious! and that meat looks very tender!
Cassie
I love London Broil, and BOYO on meat? I am there! Love this marinade too, I use these flavors so often, especially with beef!