Spicy Beef Jerky

[tmn]

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Oh, my!!

Just snitched a piece to try it out... tasty but HOT!!

I'll get my water in with this one!! LOL!!!

Totally yummy!

[sensfan1960]

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Hey Julie...I can't see the pics?? Can you repost them please

[sensfan1960]

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Never mind Jules....lol...I"m at work and for some reason the pics aren't coming through...will check it out from home

[tmn]

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Hey Julie...I can't see the pics?? Can you repost them please

I see them fine. Try hitting the refresh button.

[sillygirl]

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I was checking out this recipe because, afterall, what atkineer doesn't love jerky. You do realize that worcestershire sauce has both molasses AND high fructose corn syrup in it? Uless you found one that doesn't in which case I'd like the brand name!

[julirama723]

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The purpose of the sugar is to draw the water out of the meat while it's marinating. The options I've found are to use pure sugar, honey, molasses, or worcestireshire. The meat sits in the marinade, but much of the marinade/liquid is not used or absorbed. When calculating my jerky in fitday, I account for this.

I've also jimmied with the ingredients a bit, and I usually use more hot sauce and soy sauce than worcestershire, probably only 1/2 cup for a large rump roast. That comes out to probably 1/2 a teaspoon of worcestireshire per piece of jerky or less...and most of it doesn't get absorbed.

[sillygirl]

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Well alrighty then! You could use Splenda and omit the worchestershire, I use it all the time in marinades. I would think the salt in the soy sauce would draw out the moisture too, no?

I do have that dehydrater, I really should try making some jerky in it. So far all I make is Yams for the dog treats!

[tmn]

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The meat sits in the marinade, but much of the marinade/liquid is not used or absorbed.

I can vouch for this. The marinade covered the meat well in the ziplock bag. Once I removed the meat, there was (is, still in the freezer) a good cup and a half at least of juice left.

(It's in the freezer until garbage night, so it doesn't spoil and smell.)

[julirama723]

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I should post that as an option, huh? Splenda gives me mad cravings, so I never use it. I use low sodium soy salt, so I'm not sure! LOL.

I wish I had a food dehydrator because I made THE BEST cranberry gelled relish last night, and it tasted like a tart fruit roll up...I thought of you and your dehydrator with envy.

[sensfan1960]

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Ok now I'm freaking...is it legal or not???
I entered in fitday and it says 1 carb per serving...I so don't want to mess my induction again.

[tmn]

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Well, this is tough because Dr. Atkins states in the book that worchestershire sauce is ok for induction.

I'm trying to find a recipe for the sauce and see if we can't modify it to be rid of some ingredients...

[tmn]

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Worcestershire sauce

A dark seasoned sauce containing soy sauce, garlic, onions, molasses and lime amongst other various ingredients.

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Maybe we just need to add more soy sauce, maybe some molasses and also some lime...

Put the lime in da coconut an' drink da bowl up...

[sillygirl]

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Do you guys completely hate me? I didn't mean to cause a rukus in here! I fitday'd Lea & Perrins, one Tsp has 5 cal and 1 carb and that's it!

It's like this, either you eat a negligible amount of sugar (as in Best Foods Mayo) on a regular basis or you don't. Personally, I stayed away from anything containing any sugar in any form. That's me. I saw the amount called for in the recipe and just thought I'd mention it!

Just to tell a little back story, one of my very first posts on ADBB involved being served a hamburger that had worchestershire on it and I freaked! Didn't eat the burger either.

What Julie said about most of the sauce not being in/on the meat sounds quite likely to me.

Sorry!

[sillygirl]

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Well, this is tough because Dr. Atkins states in the book that worchestershire sauce is ok for induction.

Actually, what he says is "during induction, "exclude the following items entirely:
Sugar (in any form, including corn syrup, honey and maple syrup)"

While he doesn't exactly say molasses, I would assume that's a food group containing sugar as well.

[tmn]

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Do you guys completely hate me? I didn't mean to cause a rukus in here! I fitday'd Lea & Perrins, one Tblsp has 5 cal and 1 carb and that's it!

It's like this, either you eat a negligible amount of sugar (as in Best Foods Mayo) on a regular basis or you don't. Personally, I stayed away from anything containing any sugar in any form. That's me. I saw the amount called for in the recipe and just thought I'd mention it!

Just to tell a little back story, one of my very first posts on ADBB involved being served a hamburger that had worchestershire on it and I freaked! Didn't eat the burger either.

What Julie said about most of the sauce not being in/on the meat sounds quite likely to me.

Sorry!

Not at all! I would love to stay away from ALL corn syrups and stuff like that but maybe that's just a bit unrealistic. I don't know. I want a safe BBQ sauce for chicken and any low carb recipe has worchestershire sauce in it.

It's hard because trying to "give and take" to be slightly flexible can still backfire terribly. Who was it, Joy?, that found that one hidden ingredient in diet ice tea that prevented her from reaching her goal for months? And recently, Julie noticed potato starch in shredded cheese. It's all I've used in the past and now have bags of it in the freezer to give away.

I'll tell you all what, I'm going to make another batch of this jerky to send some to my nephew in Iraq. I'll do two half batches, one with the sauce and one without and modified that one a bit.

Got to get my mind off my health - fighting depression today. This will help.