{"id":7,"date":"2014-11-04T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:46:50","slug":"meat-vegetable-jerky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/meat-vegetable-jerky\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat &amp; Vegetable jerky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The original idea for jerky that has vegetables in it as well came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantrypractitioner.com.au\/\">Pantry Practitioner<\/a>.\u00a0We&#8217;ve just started making it regularly again and have made a few minor adjustments, so here they are.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/ezi-dry-300x244.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/ezi-dry-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"259\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Firstly, she uses an Excalibur dehydrator, which comes with nice flat square trays which are easy to line with baking paper. We have a different type of dehydrator, an Ezi Dry, which is round with a central hole. You can buy solid inserts that you can line the trays with. If you need to use baking paper, it will be trickier to cut for this style of dehydrator. (The reason we bought this one instead of an Excalibur is that it isn&#8217;t as big, and doesn&#8217;t take up as much bench space.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Because of the different shape, we shape the mix into small, individual, flattened patties, instead of one piece rolled out and marked into squares.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Lastly, based on a recipe from Heidi Jean on the GFCFNN discussion forum I used to frequent, I&#8217;m suggesting milk kefir as an alternative to ACV for the marinade.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">This makes a large amount of jerky, so feel free to reduce the quantity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">About 2kg minced meat (we usually use premium beef, but higher fat mince is fine, or try lamb, pork or whatever you like)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">About 1 cup apple cider vinegar or milk kefir<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">1 Tbs celtic sea or himalayan salt (or more to your taste)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Herbs, spices or garlic of your choice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Up to 600gm of minced or grated vegetables, such as onion, carrots, pumpkin, beetroot, zucchini, broccoli &#8211; I find 300-400gm enough, and usually use 100gm onion and 200gm or so mixed other veges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Mix together everything except the veges in \u00a0a large bowl. Get your hands in there and squeeze everything together really well so that the acid from the ACV or kefir will &#8220;cook&#8221; the meat as it marinates and destroy any pathogens. Then add your veges and mix well again. Cover with a large plate and marinate overnight in the fridge.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/jerky2-300x225.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/jerky2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Next day, set your dehydrator to HIGH or about 68C. Form little patties and flatten them to no more than 1 com thick.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">You can see in the picture that they are on a solid insert at this stage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/jerky3-300x239.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/jerky3-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Dehydrate for about 3-4 hours. By that stage, they should be firm enough to take them off the solid insert and place them (the other way up) on the mesh tray, to allow better air flow and drying.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">After a total of 6-8 hours, they will be dry on the outside, but still moist on the inside. If you will be keeping them in the fridge and eating them within a few days, you can stop there.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">But if you want to keep them longer, you need to keep them going until they are crisp and dry all the way through, up to 24 hours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">These make a perfect Paleo, GAPS or low carb snack that is a bit better balanced than pure meat.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Y-Z0zIgu9eg%2FVFg-JDm5NrI%2FAAAAAAAABXw%2Fh3tPKWtvYEo%2Fs1600%2Fjerky%2526butter.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/files\/2014\/11\/jerky-26butter-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"187\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">If you want some extra fat, use them as crackers and spread some butter on top! A slice of tomato or cucumber on top of that would be good too.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>An updated post (2016) can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/met-jerky-with-vegetables-and-without-sugar\/\">found here<\/a>. The updated recipe was originally posted on\u00a0Steemit at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/recipes\/@kiwideb\/healthy-snack-homemade-jerky-with-vegetables-and-without-sugar\">https:\/\/steemit.com\/recipes\/@kiwideb\/healthy-snack-homemade-jerky-with-vegetables-and-without-sugar<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original idea for jerky that has vegetables in it as well came from Pantry Practitioner.\u00a0We&#8217;ve just started making it regularly again and have made a few minor adjustments, so here they are. Firstly, she uses an Excalibur dehydrator, which comes with nice flat square trays which are easy to line with baking paper. We have a different type of dehydrator, an Ezi Dry, which is round with a central hole. You can buy solid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,41,6,7,10,5,3,8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}