Pipi Kaula - cooking recipe

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)

Preparation

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.
Place meat on a rack such as a cake cooling rack.
Place rack on a cookie sheet and dry meat in oven seven hours.
Keep in refrigerator.