Beef And Cheese Snack Sticks Recipe

This is my go to recipe for snack sticks.

Beef and cheese snack sticks recipe.

After all homemade beef sticks are more delicious than those in the market. This recipe requires fresh beef chuck 20 80 fat to meat ratio though any beef cut can be used. Paul fowler uses at 70 30 beef pork mix and does not use the eca encapsulated citric acid mentioned in the original recipe below. Each package of snack sticks weighs 70 85 lbs.

Ground beef go for meat with a high fat content so the meat does not dry out completely while cooking 2 tsp. Since i grind a lot of my venison in a 70 30 blend with pork or beef fat the ratios are already correct for most snack stick mixes. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Either 85 15 or 90 10 lean 1 lb pork butt or pre ground unseasoned pork and 17 19 mm collagen casing or 26 mm sheep or hog.

Like all smoked sausages it is critical to keep the meat cold or the fat can separate and ruin the texture. My recipe started from the sausage stick recipe published by rytek kutas in his great sausage recipes and meat curing book. Beef jalapeno cheese snack sticks start with hand selected cuts of premium beef that are blended our own famous snack stick spice recipe. Before you decide to make your own beef sticks recipe you should anticipate that the entire process requires a lot of effort time and patience but.

Ingredients for naked beef sticks 5 lbs. Instructions checklist step 1 in a large bowl mix together the ground beef pork sausage mustard seed liquid smoke worcestershire sauce garlic powder curing salt black pepper caraway seed cayenne pepper paprika chili powder and red pepper flakes. Greg s spicy beef sticks 10 pound recipe 5 pound recipe available below ingredients. You ll need 9 lbs ground beef.

Snack sticks are the perfect solution. I simply have to thaw the appropriate number of packages for the mix i am using blend in the seasoning and cure mix then use the weston sausage stuffer or jerky gun to stuff the meat into 21mm casings. I tried that recipe many years ago and transformed it into what i now consider the best beef stick recipe for my taste at least. This recipe calls for curing salts.

10 pound burger or venison 85 15 venison can also be used just add 10 15 beef or pork fat to the venison. First i get all my meat very cold by putting it in the freezer for 45 minutes.