Beef Jerky: Thai Chili Lime Beef Jerky Recipe

Beef Jerky

 



 

This week I am making Beef Jerky. That's right I am making Beef Jerky because a friend of mine named Paul in the East Coast of England contacted me and asked me if I would do one. I asked him why? and he told me that he and his family LOVE Beef Jerky but that it costs them $4.00 for 25 grams of jerky. I almost fainted when I heard that! I tell you why I almost fainted is because 25 grams of Beef Jerky is not even a full ounce of jerky. A standard United States ounce is 28 grams. This means that my friend Paul is paying more than $64.00 for a pound of Beef Jerky!

So I decided to do a Beef Jerky Recipe this week. So into my closet I went because I remembered that years ago a friend of mine gave me a dehydrator for the holidays and I seemed to have never unpacked it. I got the box out of the closet and opened it up to find a 4 shelf Excaliber food dehydrator. I knew the good times were gonna be rolling really quickly.

So I went out onto the net and did some research on cures and found that just like many of the finest steak houses in the United States that Beef Jerky lovers either chose the dry cure method or the wet cure method of preparing the beef for either smoking or dehydrating. Paul actually asked my if I could do a video on how to cook Beef Jerky and I told him that we don't cook Beef Jerky, we either smoke it or dehydrate it or like I have done in the past I have air cured beef out in the open desert floor here in Nevada.

As I did my research I found that most people preferred the wet cure method over the dry cure method of making a Beef Jerky Recipe. I did also find that most of the recipes I found no matter where I went were all basically the same: soy sauce, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke and garlic and pepper. I wanted to get away from all of that "standard" fair and do a flavor that was different. I like being different. I looked long and hard at what kind of ingredients I had on hand as I do have an extensive herb and spice collection in my pantry.

I searched and searched and then decided that since I am a big fan of the flavors of Southeast Asia that I was going to put make a Southeast Asian inspired Beef Jerky Recipe! What really sealed the deal on the flavor of the Beef Jerky that I was going to make was the fact that I have some KILLER dried Kaffir lime leaves from a fellow Youtuber named Slim over at Statenislandslim Channel I had cooked another Thai dish called Tom Yum Goong Soup sometime back and used lime zest which works well and when Slim saw the dish he loved it. He contacted me and offered to mail me some Kaffir lime leaves and I was more that happy to get them. Here in Las Vegas they are hard to come by as all the restaurants snatch them up before anyone can get to them. So I appreciated Slim sending me the lime leaves. You should check out his channel I think you would like it.

So the Beef Jerky Recipe I came up with finally is going to be a Thai Chili Lime Beef Jerky! It is going to have the flavors of Thai Chili for the heat and brown sugar for the sweet as well as some salt and of course the flavor and aroma of those lovely Kaffir lime leaves! So check out the video and enjoy this wonderful Beef Jerky recipe!


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