Description
Instead of a marinade or a dry rub the spice mixture is mixed in with the ground beef, making this jerky slightly different form its more expensive brothers.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons canning salt
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste (Optional)
- 1 pound extra lean ground beef
Instructions
- Stir salt
- chili powder
- garlic powder
- onion powder
- ginger
- black pepper
- and cayenne pepper together in a large bowl; add ground beef and mix well.
- Pass beef mixture through a meat grinder set with the finest blade.
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Place wire-racks onto baking sheets.
- Place 1/2 ground beef mixture between two sheets of heavy plastic on a solid
- level surface. Firmly roll beef mixture to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Remove the top layer of plastic wrap
- invert beef mixture onto prepared baking sheet
- and remove the bottom layer of plastic wrap. Repeat for remaining beef mixture.
- Bake beef mixture in the preheated oven with the oven door slightly ajar for 2 1/2 hours. Rotate the baking sheet. Bake until jerky is cooked through
- another 3 hours. Remove jerky from oven and cut into strips while warm.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 5 hrs 30 mins
Total Time: 5 hrs 45 mins
Servings: 8