Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Beef Jerky Recipes

By Marjorie J McDonald


Creating your own favorite jerky is faster than you believe and is a satisfying snack. You can use most varieties of meat and wild game such as deer, elk or moose.

For the hunters, if you have them in your family, this is a great way to use the meat from what they have brought home from a hunting trip. From the corner store, steaks, roasts, sirloin tip or round steak are good choices.

Pick out a lean piece of your meat choices and trim off all the visible fat, connecting tissue and tendons. Put the deer in the freezer compartment for one or two hours helps make it easier to slice into strips that are closer to the same size. ? Cut the deer into one eighth to one fourth or less inch thick strips. The slices can be made with or against the grain.

Many people prefer to put a marinade on the deer to add to the taste. You can purchase these or you can make them yourself quite easily at home. Making your own also permits you to use less salt but still get the taste you want. Most cookbooks will give you a choice of recipes that might be used to flavor deer.

Prepare the sauce and let it set overnite in the regriderator is the usual recommendation to permit the tastes to blend well. Then place the sauce over the meat and let it set for 45-60 minutes before placing the strips onto the dehydrator trays.

Then follow the selected time from the dehydrator cook book that came with your unit. Customarily 8 hours is the smallest amount of time but your cut of beef might require more. Just monitor the progress and you can record that in your private dehydrating recipe book of your own faves.

Jerky is the best to carry and eat on when your list is busy and you just desire a lift of energy while you are on a busy schedule. Home made jerky is without the chemicals and high salt content often frequently found in packaged jerky.

For those on lower carbohydrate diets, jerky is a good high lean protein treat to satisfy the desire for food without the extra carbohydrates. Models often eat jerky to give them energy during their hectic modeling schedules because it is a good source of protein and promotes a sense of fullness. The minimum fat content helps keep calories down and that means a healthier snack than other choices.

Frequently thought of as just something that was just eaten by the cowboys in the western pictures, jerky is still a great simple to carry treat today that may be taken along throughout the day for a fast pick me up or while hiking and camping. It's also a good selection for lunches and for snacking.

Using your dehydrator is one of the best methods to fix this current day quick snack to have for your busy way of life and to carry with you during your activities. We used to truly enjoy taking it along when we went to the sporting events we attended and now and then it went to the movies with us as a straightforward gratifying low calorie snack.

Beef jerky is something that heaps of people buy dehydrators especially for. Thinly cut deer prepared with an application of oils, herbs, spices and other flavors. These are placed in the dehydrator until chewy. These foods might also be placed in the freezer for even a longer period of longevity. Definitely a treat to plan to make.




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