This jerky is made with hamburger (ground beef) loaded with spices and flavorings to make your tongue sing. It is baked in the oven, so no special equipment is needed.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
- 1 Tablespoon A-1 Sauce
- 1/2 cup Quick Quaker Oats
- 1 egg white
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- Sauce:
- 2 Tablespoons A-1 Sauce
- 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 3 Tablespoons ketchup
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
- 2 Tablespoons water
Preparation:
Mix ground beef with garlic powder, salt, black pepper, liquid smoke, A-1 Sauce, oats, and egg white. Stir until mixed. Put into a food processor with chopping blade and chop for a good minute, until well- mixed together and consistency of putty.
On a floured cutting board, take ball of meat mixture and coat both sides lightly with flour so it won't stick and roll out with floured rolling pin, fold and roll until roughly 8-inch by 12-inch rectangle, 1/8-inch or less thick.
Using a pizza cutter, cut into 1-inch wide strips 8 inches long and carefully transfer to a wire rack.
Heat oven to 300 degrees F, place wire rack with meat in oven on oven rack in center of oven, with second oven rack one notch below. On lower rack, place cookie sheet under meat to act as a drip pan.
Bake for 1 hour at 300 degrees F.
Mix together A-1 Sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, vegetable oil, soy sauce, liquid smoke, and water in shallow dish to make the sauce. Remove rack of meat, roll each strip into sauce mix and return to rack. When all coated, return to oven and increase temperature to 450 degrees F. Bake for 15 minutes.
Remove rack again and recoat strips and return to oven for another 15 minutes or until strips become almost burnt around edges.
Remove from oven and coat one last time, then let sit and cool to room temperature.
Yield: about 1/2 pound jerky
Recipe Source: George Fassett, Watertown, New York
Reprinted with permission.
On a floured cutting board, take ball of meat mixture and coat both sides lightly with flour so it won't stick and roll out with floured rolling pin, fold and roll until roughly 8-inch by 12-inch rectangle, 1/8-inch or less thick.
Using a pizza cutter, cut into 1-inch wide strips 8 inches long and carefully transfer to a wire rack.
Heat oven to 300 degrees F, place wire rack with meat in oven on oven rack in center of oven, with second oven rack one notch below. On lower rack, place cookie sheet under meat to act as a drip pan.
Bake for 1 hour at 300 degrees F.
Mix together A-1 Sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, vegetable oil, soy sauce, liquid smoke, and water in shallow dish to make the sauce. Remove rack of meat, roll each strip into sauce mix and return to rack. When all coated, return to oven and increase temperature to 450 degrees F. Bake for 15 minutes.
Remove rack again and recoat strips and return to oven for another 15 minutes or until strips become almost burnt around edges.
Remove from oven and coat one last time, then let sit and cool to room temperature.
Yield: about 1/2 pound jerky
Recipe Source: George Fassett, Watertown, New York
Reprinted with permission.

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