Jerky – oh that sweet chewy bounty of the heavens!
Real jerky is awesome! Dehydrated meat, usually beef, cut into strips and flavoured to perfection. Unfortunately most people have not tried proper jerky. All they have tried is that awful rubbery crap you get in little packets at servo’s and bottle shops.
Well that jerky is the same to real jerky as powdered mashed potatoes is to real potatoes – a horrible aberration, a pale shade of what the good stuff really is.
When living in Melbourne there was a deli at the Vic Markets that did really good beef jerky and whenever I traveled to the big city I would buy up as much as possible. But now living in NSW, Melbourne is a long way away, especially during the pandemic.
So I’ve been learning to make my own – and I’ve gotten damn good at it! And because, like Rarity, I am the paragon of generosity I’m going to share that recipe with you now.
Ingredients
- 1.5kg slab of Beef
- 1/3 cup of Soy Sauce
- 1/3 cup of Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 tbsp of Minced Garlic
- 1 tbsp of Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp of Chilli Flakes
- 1 tsp of Smoked Paprika
- ½ tsp of Ground Black Pepper
Method
- Trim all the fat from the beef, stick in the freezer for two hours
- Remove beef from freezer, slice into strips 0.5cm thick
- In a bowl mix the Soy Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce , Garlic, Brown Sugar, Chilli Flakes, Smoked Paprika and Black Pepper.
- Massage meat strips thoroughly through the mix. Cover with cling wrap and marinate overnight
- Take marinated beef strips, put in food dehydrator set on high for 9 hours. If you don’t own a food dehydrator either go buy one (they are worth it!) or else stick in the oven on low for 6 hours.
- And now you have jerky! EAT!
And that’s it – simple as! Follow Big Angry Trev’s Jerky Recipe and you will get brilliant meat every time!
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