When you buy box mixes like Rice-a-Roni or what not, are the little pieces of veggies in there freeze dried or dehydrated?
I was wanting to make my own for storage. I know I can dehydrate the spices and technically the veggies, but it just got me thinking what process was really used.
Just another rambling thought going through my head
You can probably easily tell what the process was in future if you take a piece and look at it - see if it is shrivelled, relatively heavy and hard, or if it is light, almost porous and looks more like that vegetable (cut up) might have looked (both in size and colour) before it was dried.
In addition to adding much expense to a relatively cheap product, if the vegetables were freeze-dried I suspect they would fall apart over time into a kind of dust/powder after bashing against the other harder ingredients so there are other reasons it is not ideal for the manufacturer to use freeze-dried in this instance.
Okay, excellent! I was hoping they'd be dehydrated. I'd like to put together a few jars of my own rice-a-roni mixture instead of buying the boxes. I haven't tried my hand at dehydrated broccoli, though. So....experiment time
Thanks!
On some of the tougher veggies, like broccoli and carrots, consider a fast blanching and drain first before putting them in the dehydrator. The bigger the pieces you make the better the blanching idea is. You likely don't need to blanch for very small bits.
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