2025-01-16

Cuisine: American | Category: Snack | Yield: 2 servings

Prep Time: 1 hour | Cook Time: 4 hours | Total Time: 5 hours

A super simple beef jerky recipe anyone can make at home with their oven. No need for a food dehydrator or fancy equipment, just a couple of oven racks and away you go!

Ingredients

• 350 grams Lean Beef
• 1 tbsp Ground Black Pepper
• 1 tbsp Fresh Thyme
• 40 ml Soy Sauce

Steps

1. Cut the beef to your desired width (I prefer 3-5mm) and your desired way (with or against the grain). Personally I prefer mine to be cut against the grain that way its easier to eat.
2. Mix the beef thoroughly with the soy sauce, pepper and thyme and leave for about 30 minutes. Mix the beef again and leave for another 30 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 80°C. Strain beef and squeeze out excess soy sauce (stops it from being too salty). Lay beef out on racks ensuring it does not overlap and sprinkle a bit of extra fresh thyme and pepper over the top for more flavor if desired.
4. Dry out in oven for about 3-5 hours depending on thickness and desired dryness. Personally I like mine thin and dry so I go for about 4-5 hours. I would check it at about 2-3 hours just to see how its going.
5. Once you take it out of the oven it will continue to dry so take that into account. Once its cooled down on the bench (don't cover during this) its ready to store in the fridge!

Notes

• The thyme can be replaced with something like rosemary for a different but still super easy to make flavor.
• Very important to get a lean cut of beef otherwise you'll get gross chewy.
• If you cut it super thin you can create something like beef chips which is my favourite way to prep this.