PURPOSE: To obtain a product having good preservation quality, improved flavor and high nutritive value, by removing the fat from meat, cutting the meat into pieces of given thickness, smoking and drying the pieces, steaming or boiling and drying the smoked pieces, and drying the pieces with hot air.

CONSTITUTION: The fat is removed from fresh raw meat, and cut into pieces of uniform thickness, which are then smoked and dried, steamed or boiled and dried, primarily dried with hot air and shaved. The resultant shaved pieces of meat are secondarily dried with hot air. Thus, the aimed dried pieces of meat such as dried bonito shavings having good preservation quality without causing rancidity of fatty acids can be efficiently obtained to improve the amount of edible meat to be taken.