areese
04-01-2007, 06:41 PM
Turkey or chicken jerky
About a pound or so of boneless breast of chicken or turkey sliced into jerky sized slices. Keep them thin….1/4 inch or less I get the Jennie-O turkey cutlets usually. If you freeze the meat and let it defrost a bit it's easier to cut into thin slices.
Now…I don’t measure a lot and it’s prob. not really important exactly how much but this is close..
2 TBS brown sugar
¼ cup soy sauce
½ tsp garlic powder (or use a couple cloves of fresh garlic, crushed)
1 tsp liquid smoke
Some water…1/2 cup or so? Enough to make it deep enough to marinate the meat in.
Mix ingredients together and marinate sliced meat in it for at least an hour…overnight is good.
Take meat out of marinade and shake off excess, use dehydrator until meat cracks when you bend it. Time varies according to the equipment.. don’t overlap meat on trays.
To use the oven, spray metal cooling racks with non-stick spray and place on cookie sheets. Put marinated meat on racks. Turn oven to about 200 degrees and prop door open about 2-3 inches. Put meat in oven. Takes 3-5 hours.
Salmon should work about the same but mine was a bit too crumbly the first time I made it. I’m going to slice it a bit thicker next time.
I also make ground turkey jerky. I mix a few TBS honey, some garlic powder, some liquid smoke and a TBS of pickling salt with a pound of ground turkey. I use the electric mixer to get it mushed up really good. Then I roll it between pieces of wax paper until it’s pretty flat and about ½-1/4 inch thick. Then I freeze it. When it is pretty hard, I take it out and cut it into strips with kitchen shears and use the dehydrator (or use oven like in directions above)
About a pound or so of boneless breast of chicken or turkey sliced into jerky sized slices. Keep them thin….1/4 inch or less I get the Jennie-O turkey cutlets usually. If you freeze the meat and let it defrost a bit it's easier to cut into thin slices.
Now…I don’t measure a lot and it’s prob. not really important exactly how much but this is close..
2 TBS brown sugar
¼ cup soy sauce
½ tsp garlic powder (or use a couple cloves of fresh garlic, crushed)
1 tsp liquid smoke
Some water…1/2 cup or so? Enough to make it deep enough to marinate the meat in.
Mix ingredients together and marinate sliced meat in it for at least an hour…overnight is good.
Take meat out of marinade and shake off excess, use dehydrator until meat cracks when you bend it. Time varies according to the equipment.. don’t overlap meat on trays.
To use the oven, spray metal cooling racks with non-stick spray and place on cookie sheets. Put marinated meat on racks. Turn oven to about 200 degrees and prop door open about 2-3 inches. Put meat in oven. Takes 3-5 hours.
Salmon should work about the same but mine was a bit too crumbly the first time I made it. I’m going to slice it a bit thicker next time.
I also make ground turkey jerky. I mix a few TBS honey, some garlic powder, some liquid smoke and a TBS of pickling salt with a pound of ground turkey. I use the electric mixer to get it mushed up really good. Then I roll it between pieces of wax paper until it’s pretty flat and about ½-1/4 inch thick. Then I freeze it. When it is pretty hard, I take it out and cut it into strips with kitchen shears and use the dehydrator (or use oven like in directions above)