How you can make your own lightweight dried meat

Recently I posted about making my own Biltong, which is a dried South African meat. We often have used this meat to take on hiking or bushwalking trips. It's lightweight and delicious.

Well the good news is that our test run worked great. The meat took about 5 days to dry, due to it being cut in larger strips and that I wanted a drier meat.

I learned that some of the steaks were a little to wide and curled over. One had to be thrown out as some mould had grown on it where it had curled around.

For flavour I used a coriander seeds, chilli flakes and some black pepper. The weight savings is at least 1/2. I'll have more specific before and after weights next time I make some.

The video below will help you to make your own biltong.