One great wedding present we received was a dehydrator. After playing around with various fruits and even making very tart yet yummy fruit rolls ups, we experimented with beef jerky. Yum!I have made several batches in the past month and sometimes its jerky and a salad for dinner. Recipie is as follows:
- Meat (Less fat the better, flank works but whatever is on sale works great too)
- Soy sauce – 1/2 cup
- Honey - 1/4 cup
- Ginger – heaping tablespoon grated or minced
- Garlic – six cloves minced
- Red Pepper flakes – as much or a little as you can handle
Mix all ingredients. Slice up meat very thin. A good trick is to pop the meat in the freezer for a few minutes, makes it much easier to slice thin. Mix all ingredients. Marinate overnight in fridge, check once or twice to mix meat around the marinade.Place meat strips on dehydrator, walk away for at least 12 hours, depends on your dehydrator.
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Add a teaspoon of Liquid Smoke to the marinade and try substituting lemon paper for the red pepper (or sprinkle the lemon pepper on the meat once you’ve got it racked).
I generally dry mine for for 18 hours or more with the expectation that I want it really dry because I’ll have it around a while. That never happens.
I also have a big plastic jar that I use to marinate the meat in: it allows me to quickly and easily mix things up by rolling it around in my hands a few turns. I found the last time I made it that I can marinate it for as little as four hours (with regular rolling around) and still get a good soak on.
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