Beef Jerky (Kilishi)
Ingredients:
- 1lb thin cut beef. Flank, sirloin or topside.
- 4 Tablespoons Africanada Kilishi Spice (Extra for serving)
- Peanut butter (optional)
- Other Seasoning to taste
Steps:
- Cut off fat caps and any muscle membranes (slippery skin), ligaments, tendons etc. Kitchen shears are awesome for this. Once the fat is cleared, begin cutting super thin slices
- Blot your beef to dry with a kitchen towel or set it on a rack.
- In a small bowl, add the peanut butter to the your Africanada spice mix with 1/4 cup of water to liquefy and allow to rest for at least 10 mins. This will give the spices time to release their flavour
- Coat and Soak the dried beef by submerging each piece in the Kilishi sauce and transfer to another plate.
- Allow quoted beef to sit for at least 15-20 mins to maximize flavour absorption.
- Preheat your oven to 475 degrees
- Place a baking sheet over your oven tray and lay the pieces of beef flat on it.
- Put the tray of beef in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. After every 5 minutes, flip the beef for even distribution of heat, so that it dries evenly.
- After 15 minutes, take the beef out of the oven and brush the Kilishi all over the beef fillets. Ensure that they are well covered.
- Put the beef fillets back in the oven to bake for another 10 to 15 minutes. Flip them from time to time and be careful it doesn’t get too dry.
- Take out of the oven, allow to dry and Enjoy!