Biltong is an absolutely delicious dried beef snack, originating from South Africa. It is, however, very expensive to buy and I’ve been wanting to have a go at making it for a while.
Sainsbury’s helpfully put their Silverside roasting joints on offer at half price, which was too tempting to ignore.
Next problem was locating a suitable recipe – there are a great deal of vague and differing recipes out there. About the only thing that they can seem to agree on is to cut the beef into 1 inch, square cross section, strips along the line of the grain of the meat. Also that coriander, salt, pepper and vinegar are involved.
After distilling them down, here’s the recipe and process followed.
Preparation time: about an hour of work. Three hours of curing time. 2-5 days of drying time.
Rough Ingredients
(doesn’t need to be exact quantities):
- 1.7 Kg…
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