South Africa
Photo: Delia du Plessis, CC BY-SA 3.0, croppedBiltong
/ˈbəltɔŋ/BILL-tong
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- When
- Snack
- Taste
- Savory
- Made with
- Beef
History
Biltong is strips of meat, usually beef but also game such as kudu or ostrich, soaked briefly in vinegar, rubbed with salt, coriander seed and pepper, and hung to dry in the air. It is not cooked or smoked, which makes it different from jerky. Indigenous peoples of southern Africa dried meat long before Europeans arrived, and Dutch settlers and the Voortrekkers who moved inland in the 19th century relied on it as travel food. The name is Afrikaans: bil means buttock, the cut used, and tong means strip. It is eaten as a snack at sports matches and on road trips.
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