JERKY RECIPES

Honey is the main sweetener in this pellet-smoker recipe, with pineapple juice loosening the marinade and jalapeño adding both fresh pepper flavor and heat. Behind The Garage BBQ uses liquid aminos, Worcestershire, jalapeño hot sauce, and a sliced pepper before finishing the beef with an optional honey rub and chili flakes. The result shown is broad, reddish-brown jerky with visible seasoning on its surface.

This is the pantry-friendly end of homemade jerky: a salty soy base, a sweet hickory barbecue sauce, and very little measuring or mixing. Prepper Princess coats broad strips of beef in the two sauces, then dries them into dark, flat pieces. The barbecue sauce supplies the sweetness and smoky character, so a long list of extra spices is unnecessary.

Make sweet-savory teriyaki beef jerky with an illustrated method, ingredients, and Grillin With Dad’s step-by-step video. Includes a clear USDA heating checkpoint before drying.

A pepper-forward beef jerky recipe built around a simple overnight marinade and dehydrator method.