One of my biggest struggles is traveling for work while maintaining a paleo lifestyle. I always travel with a bag of Trader Joe's organic orignal beef jerky but unfortunately, its' not completely paleo as is has soy sauce in it. So a light went off and I said to myself, self....why not get a dehydrator and do it yourself???? So I did. I picked up a grassfed flank steak from Whole Foods this weekend and dry rubbed it with some onion power, garlic powder, cayanne pepper, paprika, and celtic salt. I sliced the flank steak across the grain and let the rub sit overnight in the fridge. I loaded the dehydrator today, turned the time to 6 hours and voila, jerky!
Ok, so first batch.. have some adjustments to make. I used way too much Cayenne Pepper and I cooked too long. I think maybe 4 hours might be the trick.
That looks great Debbie, do you think you will sell it at the gym? I recently looked at the ingredients of Trader Joe's turkey jerky and realized it had sugar in it so I have been avoiding it. Great job with the new site!
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