Ingredients:

Meat:

1. One pound ground beef
2. One teaspoon salt
3. One teaspoon liquid smoke
4. One teaspoon garlic powder
5. One egg white
6. One tablespoon A-1 sauce
7. One fourth teaspoon black pepper
8. Half of a cup of Quick Quaker oats

Sauce:

1. Two tablespoons A-1 sauce
2. Three tablespoons ketchup
3. One teaspoon soy sauce
4. Two tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
5. Two tablespoons water
6. Two tablespoons vegetable oil
7. One teaspoon liquid smoke

Directions for Making Ground Beef Jerky:

1. Mix the ingredients with ground beef and stir until thoroughly mixed. With the help of a chopping knife, chop for one minute until finely mixed and having a uniformity of putty.

2. In the next step of making ground beef jerky, take a ball of the meat mixture on a floured cutting board and lightly coat both sides with flour. Roll out with a floured rolling pin until about 8” by 11” rectangle 1/7” or less thick. Then cut into 8” long and 1” wide strips using a pizza cutter and transfer the same carefully to a wire rack.

3. Heat your oven to 300 degrees. Place the wire rack in the center of the oven with a second rack one notch below. Place a cookie sheet under meat, which acts as a drip pan on the lower rack. Bake for one hour.

4. Mix all the sauce ingredients together in a shallow dish. After removing the rack of meat, roll every strip in the sauce mix and place them back on rack. Bake for 15 minutes to 450 degrees. Recoat strips after removing from the rack again and bake for another 15 minutes. Final step for making this beef jerky involves coating one last time and then cooling to room temperature.

There you have it, a simple and easy to make ground beef jerky recipe.