I have been waiting to try some home made beef Jerky for a while now and have read a ton of different recipes all over the place and decided to give it a go this weekend. I picked up 6 or seven pounds of flank steak from Costco. I went with recipe that I found on line and modified it a bit to include some cure #1 as well as a couple other things that sounded good to me at the time. The results were far better than I was expecting. This had to be the best jerky that I have ever had..
I was on the fence as to whether or not to put them in the smoker as I have a Cabelas Commercial dehydrator. For the sake of simplicity on my first attempt, I decided to go with the dehydrator. Next time around, I will smoke for the first couple hours and then put them in the dehydrator. I will also eliminate the liquid smoke when I try that route.
Here is the recipe I came up with. Like I said, its largely based on a recipe I found on line with a handful of modifications.
The ingredients for 6 Pounds of meat:
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons onion powder
Everything else except the meat and red pepper go into a pan and get heated up until the brown sugar dissolves. Place the pot of marinate into the fridge and let it cool.
I put the meat in the freezer for around an hour to harden up a bit before slicing. I went with 1/4" strips cut against the grain. I then sprinkled a fair amount of the seasoning over the meat and set the rest of the seasoning aside. I then put the meat and marinade into zip lock bags and put them in the fridge overnight..
The next day I laid out some paper towels on the counter and spread the meat strips out over the towels and blotted them dry with another towel. Next I laid them out over the dehydrator racks and dusted them again with some of the left over seasoning followed by some of the red pepper.
Into the dehydrator at 140* they went for roughly 6-7 hours..
All done!!
The pictures do no justice for this stuff. My mom doesn't normally like beef jerky but she couldn't stop eating this stuff!
I was on the fence as to whether or not to put them in the smoker as I have a Cabelas Commercial dehydrator. For the sake of simplicity on my first attempt, I decided to go with the dehydrator. Next time around, I will smoke for the first couple hours and then put them in the dehydrator. I will also eliminate the liquid smoke when I try that route.
Here is the recipe I came up with. Like I said, its largely based on a recipe I found on line with a handful of modifications.
The ingredients for 6 Pounds of meat:
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons onion powder
- 1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1/4 cup cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 6 pounds lean beef. I used Flank Steak
- 3 cups brown sugar
- 4 cups soy sauce
- 1-1/2 cups teriyaki sauce
- 1-1/2 cups Worcestershire sauce
- 1/8 cup maple syrup
- 1/8 cup honey
- 2 cups balsamic vinegar
- 3/4 cups liquid smoke flavoring (the original recipe called for more than double this amount of liquid smoke which I felt was way too much)
- 3 cups pineapple juice
- 2 tablespoons red pepper flakes, or to taste (optional)
- 1 1/4 teaspoon Cure # 1
Everything else except the meat and red pepper go into a pan and get heated up until the brown sugar dissolves. Place the pot of marinate into the fridge and let it cool.
I put the meat in the freezer for around an hour to harden up a bit before slicing. I went with 1/4" strips cut against the grain. I then sprinkled a fair amount of the seasoning over the meat and set the rest of the seasoning aside. I then put the meat and marinade into zip lock bags and put them in the fridge overnight..
The next day I laid out some paper towels on the counter and spread the meat strips out over the towels and blotted them dry with another towel. Next I laid them out over the dehydrator racks and dusted them again with some of the left over seasoning followed by some of the red pepper.
Into the dehydrator at 140* they went for roughly 6-7 hours..
All done!!
The pictures do no justice for this stuff. My mom doesn't normally like beef jerky but she couldn't stop eating this stuff!
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