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Meat Recipe #15 – Beef Jerky!

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
Easier to carve when slightly frozen
  • Remove beef from freezer, slice into strips 0.5cm thick
If too thick meat wont dehydrate inside properly
  • In a bowl mix the Soy Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce , Garlic, Brown Sugar, Chilli Flakes, Smoked Paprika and Black Pepper.
Ohhh that delicious smell!
  • Massage meat strips thoroughly through the mix. Cover with cling wrap and marinate overnight
Meat should have absorbed the mixture
  • 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.
Space evenly
Rotate racks if meat is not drying evenly
  • And now you have jerky!  EAT!

 

So damn good!

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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Meat Recipe #8 – Roast Lamb with Seasoned Vegetables

Who doesn’t love a big roast eh?  Well, vegetarians I guess, and people with eating disorders, those in a coma etc… well, lots of people.  But lots more people love a roast, especially in winter!

Be still your beating taste buds

So here is a simple recipe for Roast Lamb with Vegetables that is certain to fill your tum.  All the ingredients will be seasoned in various themes of yummy goodness but I’ve even made that easy too.  Just follow the below instructions below and eat hearty!

 

Ingredients:

  • 1.5kg roasting lamb
  • 4 medium potatoes
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 large carrot
  • Frozen peas
  • Olive oil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Minced garlic
  • Rosemary
  • Mild Paprika
  • Honey
  • Balsamic Vinegar

 

Preparation:

  • Peel & quarter the potatoes and the onion
  • Peel the large carrot and cut into sticks
  • Take a mixing bowl and fill the bottom with a mixture of olive oil, salt and pepper
  • Put the oven on to preheat to 180 degrees

 

Seasoning:

  • One by one take each of the ingredients (the lamb, potatoes, carrots & onion) and roll them around in the mixture of oil, salt and pepper. Sit each to one side.
  • Mix up some minced garlic and rosemary and rub generously all over the lamb.
  • Roll potatoes in mild paprika
  • Roll carrots in honey and place in fridge
  • Pour balsamic vinegar in a small bowl and put onions in to soak. Place in fridge.

 

Method:

  • Place lamb in roasting tray that allows circulation of heat all around the lamb. Set timer for 90 minutes.
  • At the 45 minute mark put the potatoes on an oven tray and place in oven
  • At the 60 minute mark put the carrots on a separate tray and place in oven (otherwise all the honey that slides off will contaminate your potatoes and obscure the paprika seasoning)
  • At the 70 minute mark place the onion in next to the potatoes.
  • At the 80 minute mark put some peas on to boil

 

Serving

  • Cut the lamb into nice slices or chunks (depending on your culinary audience) using an electric knife and place on plate.
  • Divvy up the vegetables, providing some butter
  • You can provide gravy if you like, though with all the seasoning it shouldn’t be necessary
  • Enjoy!

 

And there ya go.  A roast recipe to warm the cockles of you and your families gullets this winter.  Happy eating!

Got your own roast lamb recipe?  Would love to read it in the comments section below!