Home Made Deer Jerky Recipe

This home made deer jerky recipe has an excellent flavor and is easy to make. Venison jerky is a fall-favorite deer meat recipe, and I prefer using ground deer. I love sliced jerky as well, but this ground jerky recipe is real crowd favorite. I use LEM products in this video, including the LEM 10-tray Mighty Bite dehydrator and the LEM Jerky Cannon. I also include pink salt in the recipe, so the meat is actually cured before being dehydrated, adding another layer of safety and longer shelf-stability. I recommend freezing any wild game jerky, but since it's cured, it's a much more stable. Thanks so much for watching!

Marinade recipe:
• 5# Ground Lean Meat
• 1.25c Payne County Marinade (substitute .75c Worch + .5c Water)
• .25c Molasses
• .75c Brown Sugar
• 3t Black Pepper
• 5t Ground Ginger
• 10t Onion Powder
• 5t Garlic Powder
• 1t Pink Salt (6.25% Sodium Nitrite)
• 4t MSG (Accent)

A few spice options:
• MILD: NO ADDITIONAL PEPPER
• MEDIUM: 3T GROUND RED PEPPER
• SPICY: 6T GROUND RED PEPPER

Process:
• Mix all ingredients with five pounds ground lean and refrigerate 12 hours
• Add pepper for heat if desired after refrigeration
• Dehydrate strips to desired dryness at 155°F. In the LEM, this works in 7 hours
• Bag batches in zip-top bags and freeze

Best,
Shane
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[derikalawrence]

If you go to all the trouble of making your own jerky, I highly recommend spending the less than $100 to buy a vacuum sealer. It greatly lengthens the shelf life and is great for storing/sharing with friends

[Zen.]

Great video! Thanks for not rushing, ton of info in short video!!!!

[nickbeward]

What do you think about adding liquid smoke to this recipe?

[dustindunkin]

Love the Payne seasonings
Just found them at meat market in shawnee
Used everyone for our Christmas dinner. Everyone loved it

[FlourgoldWizards]

The jerky is definitely the easy part but finding just the right flavor is definitely the trick, we’ll be trying this one soon enough I think 👍🏻

[jombeemeanstroke]

If you're not a hunter, like me, than definitely make friends with one! My buddy just gifted me 2lbs of fresh ground venison that I'm going to make, which is why I'm here! Great video, thank you so much.

[mtnshow]

I was planning on making this with ground venison and ground bison. Some recipes tell you to add fat. Either pork or beef. Not sure if that's required since you went all lean here.

[griffinranger]

Thanks from western Oklahoma!! Good info!!

[The_reel_archer]

Thank you for sharing this! Hope you have a great season!

[gonecountry]

Thanks for sharing! Ive been on the search for a different recipe because every one I've ever tried has soy sauce and that usually ends up being about all I can taste in the jerky - the pieces always end up black. I want a recipe that will look and taste more like bought jerky. Anxious to try yours. Thanks again!

[TomofAllTrades]

Great video. I like your method to increase or decrease the spice. Thanks for sharing.
We have a small Excalibur dehydrator a 5 tray model. It will do about 2 pounds.

[charlesdang]

Ingenious! What a great and tasty way of stretching out the meat supply

[mikejohnson]

Thanks for sharing your recipe, gonna give it a whirl sometime in the next few days just waiting on some ground beef and venison mix to thaw. Anywhere near Benton Ar. I can find your Marinade?

[jefffolk]

I’ll be buying some of this Marinade here soon. Looks great

[Sabii_Wabii]

I would have thought ground jerky would take less than steak jerky. After 7 hours, does it bend or snap?

[kevinmcmullen]

is adding water or more liquid to your ground deer jerky make it easier to come out of the jerky gun mine wants to bunch up as it comes out or come out into sections.

[robertodevincenzi]

Great video! Got a ton of ground venison. My son’s done good this year. A buck and doe. My question is had the ground meat mixed with some pork. Can I still dehydrate it?

[Sam-Edwards]

About to pick up my sons meat today. Cant wait to try this recipe

[Ramblingon]

I have not seen this in Carlsbad, NM would like to try it since Jason says it's good.

[DonKravetz]

Great recipe! Do you have another flavor variation you like? Like an original versus this type. Ty