Chinese take away
I have been playing with my dehydrator this week and tried to make and oriental coleslaw salad that can be eaten cold (after listening to a podcast - Wildebeat show 65, Backcountry Home Cooking).
I sliced up a white cabbage, grated a few carrots, sliced a few spring onions, threw in some broken up whole wheat spaghetti and mixed it all up with ginger, sushi vinegar, soy sauce and sesame oil. It was delicious! I weighed it, dried it, weighed it again to find out how much water I would need to rehydrate it and then portioned it up.
I rehydrated a portion with cold water for a couple of hours - it came back to life but tasted awful, so it's back to the drawing board for cold lunches. I think it was the spring onions that didn't work very well.
I then took another portion and used boiling water and popped it in my freezer bag cozy for 10 minute and it was fantastic! Just like a veggie chow mein - the vegetables were al dente, closely imitating stir fried food. A success!
If I was to use this for a main meal, I throw some Quorn chunks in too and a bit more broken up pasta.
Curry next!
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1 Comments:
Of all of my dehydrated meals I think that curry works the best. Dehydration tends to kill flavours in the way that home freezing can enhance some flavours. Cooking spicy food really helps.
Lamb and spinach curry is particularly good!
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