Pipi Kaula

Ingredients

• 2 lbs flank steaks
• 3/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons hawaiian sea salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 piece ginger, crushed
• 1 red chili pepper, crushed (optional)

Directions

1. 1

   Cut beef into strips 1 1/2 inches wide. Combine all other ingredients and soak beef in the sauce overnight. If you have a drying box, place the meat in the sun for two days, bringing it in at night. If drying in the oven, set oven to 175-degrees.

2. 2

   Place meat on a rack such as a cake cooling rack.

3. 3

   Place rack on a cookie sheet and dry meat in oven seven hours.

4. 4

   Keep in refrigerator.