Filipino Vegetarian Recipe Blog

Dehydrated Vegetables and Its Advantages

Try to keep your pantry stocked with canned food, your refrigerator can be stocked with fresh food and freezer stocked with frozen food. Keep also a supply of dehydrated foods on hand. For example, dried onions because they are easy to add to soups and stews and they will take the place of fresh onions if you do not have any. Sometimes you can substitute whole green or red pepper with just a teaspoon of the dried ones.

You can package your own soup in ziploc bags. They do not take up a lot of space and it only takes about 10-20-minutes to prepare a quick lunch, depending on what kind of soup you want. All the chopping, cutting and measuring is already done for you and you do not have to worry about a half of a pepper or onion spoiling in the refrigerator. You don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for a couple cups of soup.

For chicken soup you just put enough dried vegetables in a ziploc bag to make a quart of soup. Put onions, diced carrots, celery and egg noodles. To make soup heat up a quart of homemade chicken stock and simmer the vegetables for about 10-minutes or until the noodles are done. If I have some leftover chicken I add it to the soup.

For beef flavored vegetable soup put carrots, onions, celery, cabbage, diced potatoes, diced dried tomatoes and peas. Heat up a quart of beef stock and simmer for 10-minutes. You can use any combination of dried vegetables you want and add leftover meat to it or rice or noodles. Easy to do and no preservatives!