Listen... have you to tried to make biltong? Very easy.
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Meat:
Use beef - upper side cut with fat layer. Cut up 3cm slices against the grain.
Make up a vinegar marinade... I prefer 80% malt vinegar and 20% apple cider. In it add 4 teaspoons of soy or wochestershire sauce.
Make salt/spice mix. Rock or kosher salt (do not use any iodised salt or regular salt). 3 teaspoons of salt per filet cut. equal amount of grounded or crushed corainder. 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper. Multiply by how many fillets you have. I just make extra in case. At the end, add 1 teaspoon of dried garlic and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Mix it up in a bowl.
Procedure.
- Day 1 dunk the meat cuts into the vinegar, leave for 1 minute. Make sure every part of the meat was covered in vinegar. In a steel bowl, sprinkle a bit of the spice mix. sprinkle on each side and layer the meat up. Once done add the vinegar mix left back into the steel bowl with the meat. Cover and leave over night in the fridge for 24 hours.
- Day 2 get a box and put in a bulb to the bottom or hang it inside. Use metal steel rods (kebab rods) and hang the meat inside.
- Day 3 colour will start to change to black.
- Day 4 medium rare if you want to pull it out
- Day 6 it should be done by now.
Use a salad cutter guillotine for thin slices; you can use a sharp knife as well.
Note: 8kg of beef yielded 2 kg of biltong. that is how much it will lose its weight. Now, you can rehydrate it as well and add to soup too. I used to do that during field operations for my team.... yes i cooked as well in my unit --- i knew where my hands had been