Ohanyan's Lean Cured Beef 8oz (Sliced Basterma - Pastirma)

Description

Ingredients:
Beef, salt, water, spices, garlic, paprika, sodium nitrate
Ohanyan’s Bastirma is a gourmet Mediterranean style delicacy, somewhat similar to Italian Bresaola. Carefully selected beef New York strips are flavored with unique zesty spices and slowly dry-cured for perfection. Bastirma is characterized by its bold garlic flavor with exceptional …
Pastirma or basturma, also called pastourma, basdirma, or basterma, is a highly seasoned, air-dried cured beef that is part of the cuisines of Turkey, Armenia, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Iraq and North Macedonia.
Pastirma is also the ancestor of several different cured meats.  You can see how it travels West across Europe   There is Bresaola
, and even Pastrami and Corned Beef are very similar to this style.  Interesting how more sedentary cultures use a brine cure, where as more mobile cultures use a dry cure.