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Dried meat is a feature of many cuisines around the world. Examples include: * Kulen Slanina Pečenica * Aliya, sun-dried meat from
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Bakkwa Bakkwa, also known as ròugān, is a Chinese cuisine, Chinese salty-sweet dried meat product similar to jerky. Bakkwa is made with a meat preservation and preparation technique originating from China. The general method of production has remaine ...
or rougan, Chinese salty-sweet dried meat sheets. * Biltong, a cured meat that originated in Southern Africa. * ''Bògoǫ'', a dried and smoked meat, often caribou, of the Dené people of northern Canada. * Borts, air-dried strips of horse or cow meat used as traveling food or to last the winter in
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. Often ground into powder and mixed with water to create soup. * Bresaola, air-dried salted beef originally from the Valtellina valley in northern
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. * Brési, made in the canton of Jura and in Jura Bernois in Switzerland and in the department of Doubs in France. * Bündnerfleisch, air-dried meat from Kanton Graubünden in
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. * Carne-de-sol, sun-dried salt beef from
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. * Carne seca, air-dried meat from Mexico. * Cecina, lightly smoked, dried, and salted meat from northwestern Spain (Asturias, León, Cantabria), Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexico. * Charqui, made from
llama The llama (; or ) (''Lama glama'') is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a List of meat animals, meat and pack animal by Inca empire, Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era. Llamas are social animals and live with ...
or alpaca, in South America. * Chipped beef, partially dried beef sold in small, thin, flexible leaves in jars or plastic packets. * Droëwors, from South Africa, dried sausage * Fenalår from Norway is the salted, dried thigh of a sheep predominantly, but it can also come from other animals such as roe deer, deer, moose or reindeer. * Hunter beef, a corned beef from Pakistan marinated and baked for use in sandwiches and salads. * Idiyirachi is a traditional
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-style delicacy made of pounded and shredded buffalo dry meat. * Jerky, meat that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, marinated, and dried or smoked. * Kawaab, air-dried, spiced meat of the Hyderabadi community of India. * Kilishi, a dried, spicy Nigerian meat. Coated with a peanut sauce as well as other spices. * Kuivaliha, air-dried salted meat (often reindeer) of northern
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. * Laap mei, also called "wax meats" or air-dried meats, are a southern Chinese speciality. * Lahndi or ''qadid'', air-dried salted meat (often lamb) of Pushtoon Tribe of Pakistan, Northern
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and Northern Africa (''gueddid''). * Meat floss * Mipku, air-dried strips of meat, often caribou or reindeer, of the Inuvialuit people of Northern Canada. * Pânsâwân, smoked dried strips of bison meat traditionally of the plains Cree peoples of Western Canada and the United States. * Pastirma, air-dried salted and often spiced meat of in
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Pemmican Pemmican () (also pemican in older sources) is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be used as a key component in prepared meals or eaten raw. Historically, it was an important part of indigeno ...
, a meat mixture, sometimes with dried fruit, used by the native peoples of North America. *
Pindang Pindang refers to a cooking method in the Indonesian and Malay language of boiling ingredients in brine or acidic solutions. Usually employed to cook fish or egg, the technique is native to Sumatra especially in Palembang, but has spread to Java ...
, dried buffalo meat from the Philippines. * Po, dried meat in Korean cuisine. ** Yukpo, dried beef in Korean cuisine. * Rauchfleisch, salted and cold smoked meat used in regional
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, and Bavarian cuisine * Rukuri, dried meat coated with honey from the central region of
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. * Sukhad, dried game meat from
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Suho meso Suho meso (literally: "dry meat") is a smoked beef preparation eaten in Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin cuisine. The meat is cured in a coarse salt for multiple days before being hung to dry over a fire for multiple days or weeks, de ...
, a smoked beef eaten in Bosnia. *
Sukuti Sukuti ( Nepali: सुकुटी) is a dried meat product of Nepalese origin, also consumed in the Himalayan regions of India and Tibet. It is usually made from buffalo, lamb, or goat meat. It is a staple dish of the Limbu people, and is k ...
, air-dried, spiced meat of the Newari community of Nepal. * Uppukandam, dried boneless salted mutton from
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* Vatti Mamsam or Endu Mamsam is fresh meat of goat, sheep, beef dried in sun mixed with turmeric and salt from Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh in India. * Walliser Rohschinken, air-dried ham from
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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. * Walliser Trockenfleisch, air-dried beef from
Kanton Wallis Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern pa ...
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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. * Walliser Trockenspeck, air-dried bacon from
Kanton Wallis Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern pa ...
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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. * Walliser Trockenwurst, air-dried sausage from
Kanton Wallis Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern pa ...
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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. * Gakhaj, sun or oven-dried meat from Gakh region in
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See also

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List of dried foods This is a list of dried foods. Food drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which inhibits the growth of bacteria and has been practiced worldwide since ancient times to preserve food. Where or when d ...
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List of smoked foods This is a list of smoked foods. Smoking (cooking), Smoking is the process of seasoning, flavoring, cooking, or food preservation, preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Foods have been smoke ...


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