Pemmican
Description
Pemmican is a food concentrate made from dried meat and dried berries or dried fruit. Both American Indians and Siberian hunters took it on long journeys. I think every people has its own recipe for preparing such a product. It can be made from any meat: pork, beef, game, or poultry. Pemmican can be added when making soups or porridges, and if you cannot prepare hot food, you can snack on pemmican as is.
Instructions
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Step 1
Grind skinless chicken breast into mince and spread it in a thin layer in a dehydrator or on a baking sheet.
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Step 2
And we dry the chicken meat at 70 degrees. We dry it in the oven with the door open.
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Step 3
Grind the dried meat in a coffee grinder until it becomes powder.
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Step 4
Grind the dried fruit through a meat grinder.
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Step 5
Then mix the meat powder and the chopped dried fruit, and pass everything through the meat grinder again.
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Step 6
**Pass through a coffee grinder, add a pepper and salt mix. Mix.**
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Step 7
Use fresh salo so you don’t misjudge the salt. Smoked salo tastes even better. Cut the salo into cubes.
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Step 8
And render over very low heat until the cracklings turn golden. Remove the cracklings. You can grind them up and add them to the pemmican as well.
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Step 9
Add the slightly cooled fat to the meat and dried fruit mixture and mix.
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Step 10
Transfer the resulting mixture into a flat dish and press it down firmly. Place a weight on top so it compresses better, and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, cut into pieces and pack airtight.