Thread: Hein's Biltong Recipe and Dryer box

The recipe above does not mention where to get some roasted crushed coriander, which is hellishly expensive if you buy it the wrong way. I usually buy a kg at a time of raw dry coriander seeds from the indian bulk food shop in Glenfield, I then heat up a fry pan and when it's super hot I cover it in the coriander seeds about 3 seeds deep. Stir the seeds, the objective is to roast them. You will see they start changing color, going quite dark brown (after a few minutes) and then eventually you will have some smoke coming off. Turn off the heat at this point and start crushing them, back in the early days I used to crush them in a plastic container using another piece of plastic, but these days I use a mortar and pestle which gets the job done a bit quicker. While crushing the coriander you will smell the most amazing thing, it's fantastic.

As an aside, this roasted crushed coriander mixed with some pepper corns and chilli powder or flakes makes a great beef spice for bbqs.