Maple Habanero Beef Jerky

[Compulsive Smoker]

Hi Everyone!

The other day @Quiganomics posted Sweet Bourbon Jerky…Should’ve Made More. and that got me to thinking about JERKY!!! Couldn’t get it out of my mind, so here we go!

I wanted something slightly sweet and fairly spicy, so I took a recipe for a maple syrup sauce my wife uses for frying pork chops when I’m too lazy to fire up the Weber made a few tweaks and here it is.

1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup Secret Aardvark Habanero hot sauce
3 Tablespoons of ketchup
2 Tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce (if you don’t have any, that’s fine. Use less salt)
2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon salt (if using regular soy sauce I would do 1/2 teaspoon.)
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

I got a fresh whole New York Strip on sale for around $7.00 /lb so I sliced about 2 pounds of that into roughly 1/4 in slices.

Then into a plastic bag with the marinade for 24 hours.

Then yesterday evening after dinner, onto the Traeger set to the “Smoke” setting. (About 160 to 170* F.)
Also had my smoke tube loaded up with Competition Blend pellets and Mesquite wood chips.

About 2 hours in…

I flipped it at about 3 hours.

4.5 hours and we’re done!

Off the smoker and onto a plate…

Once it cooled I trimmed the fat off the edges using kitchen shears.

Sit down and eat up!

As always thanks for looking!

God Bless…

-Mike

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

I made a batch (almost 8 lbs) of quigs jerky today. Hope to smoke it tomorrow. Made a cpl changes by using white pepper instead of black and add red pepper flakes. Also used top loin since had a cpl in freezer. My slicer switch broke though before got to slice so had to do it by hand. I need practice getting even slices. Yours looks great. Love the maple flavor.

 

[Compulsive Smoker]

I made a batch (almost 8 lbs) of quigs jerky today. Hope to smoke it tomorrow. Made a cpl changes by using white pepper instead of black and add red pepper flakes. Also used top loin since had a cpl in freezer. My slicer switch broke though before got to slice so had to do it by hand. I need practice getting even slices. Yours looks great. Love the maple flavor.

Thank you Sir! Hope yours turns out good! Make sure to post some pics!

 

[kilo charlie]

Dang that looks good! Congratulations on the Feature!

 

[Rafter H BBQ]

That looks amazing Mike! I need to try your recipe!! Very nicely done my friend and Congrats on the spinner ride!

 

[Compulsive Smoker]

Dang that looks good! Congratulations on the Feature!

Thanks KC!

That looks amazing Mike! I need to try your recipe!! Very nicely done my friend and Congrats on the spinner ride!

Thanks Justin! You do that and let me know how it turns out!

 

[normanaj]

Yummy!

 

[voyager 663rd]

So nice. Chinese grocery near me usually has 'mystery' meat (sirloin, t-bone, etc) but sometimes gets strip as well. This recipe looks perfect for that.

Sub in any hot sauce for it and I'm good (yours is not sold here).

 

[Compulsive Smoker]

Yummy!

Thank you!

 

[Compulsive Smoker]

So nice. Chinese grocery near me usually has 'mystery' meat (sirloin, t-bone, etc) but sometimes gets strip as well. This recipe looks perfect for that.

Sub in any hot sauce for it and I'm good (yours is not sold here).

Yup! Any hot sauce would work…they don’t sell it locally here either, so I buy it off Amazon…