Ingredients
1 small stock dice
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dry cayenne pepper seeds
10 pieces wafer-skinny red meat
1 tablespoon suya spice (suya pepper)
three cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon cloves (Kanafuru)
A small piece of ginger
Notes
The beef you will use for Kilishi must be cut from the reddest part of the beef and not using a fat in any respect.
Cut the beef as skinny as possible. It is generally as thin as 3mm. The Mai Kilishis have the sharpest knife inside the international. Their capacity to reduce a huge blanket of beef so thinly is a ability that can not be rivalled.
Where I live, the butchers have an equipment for cutting beef into very skinny fillets. Unfortunately, they can not get a large blanket of beef so I manipulate the small pieces the size of my palm.
You can purchase the suya spice (suya pepper) in African food stores, you could additionally make yours. Visit How to make Nigerian Suya Spice for details.
By 3 cloves of garlic I suggest 3 small portions of garlic you get while you split a bulb of garlic.
Cloves is a spice that gives the Kilishi a unique flavour.
I used fresh ginger however you could use dry floor ones as an alternative.
You only need a small amount of salt. You may not even want it in case you do not eat a number of salt. Be careful when adding salt else the Kilishi may be over-pro whilst finished.
You get the dry cayenne pepper seeds through removing the crimson part of the pepper.
Prepare the Kilishi Spice Solution
Grind the cloves with a dry mill and set apart.
Peel the garlic and ginger and pound/grind into a smooth paste.
Add the floor cloves and crushed stock cubes to the garlic and ginger paste.
And a few water, stir and sieve to get an extract of these spices and seasoning.
Add the suya spice and cayenne pepper seeds to the solution, stir and set aside.
Directions
Cut the red meat into very skinny fillets if it has not been completed for you with the aid of the butchers.
Cut off all strains of fat from the red meat.
Set your oven to 250°C (475F) or Gas Mark nine to preheat. If your oven temperature settings are not up to these, use the best possible putting however this means that your very own drying times will trade. If your oven has a fan, flip it on as well as it helps dry the red meat quicker.
Sprinkle a tiny amount of salt at the fillets of beef and unfold them round. You only want a tiny quantity and you could skip salt altogether.
Line your oven tray with a baking sheet and lay the pieces of beef flat on it.
Put the tray of beef into the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Flip the beef each five mins for even drying.
After 15 minutes, bring out the beef from the oven and brush the Kilishi throughout them, making sure that both facets of the red meat are nicely included.
Note:
The manner they do it within the North is to dry the fillets of red meat within the sun for 2 days then soak them within the Kilishi spice answer and spread within the sun (on flat rafia baskets) till dry. Some grill it after soaking inside the Kilishi answer.
Put them again within the oven and bake for extra 10 to 15 minutes. Flip them from time to time and this time, maintain a superb eye on it else it will become bone dry. You want it dry and chewy now not crunchy.
