Sauce Ideas

[ndbwhunter]

Need some good sauce ideas for use in dehydrated meals. I get burnt out on the same old spaghetti meat sauce. Have you guys found a good alfredo type sauce that goes well with chicken and can be dehyrated. I haven't tried dehydrating any cream based sauces, but I'm guessing the end result would be less than desirable.

Please post up your sauce recipes if you've got any!

 

[ndbwhunter]

Somebody has to have an alternative to the delicious cream based sauces? Backcountry alfredo anyone?

 

[beachbunny]

yeah. i tried dehydrating alfredo and that was a culinary disaster

 

[Clarktar]

I have used dehydrated coconut milk for curry type meals. Works pretty good...

 

[tlowell02]

I purchase the alfredo mix packets from the grocery store and they work great. Some pasta, alfredo mix, chicken, and a little dehydrated milk is all it takes.

 

[Ray]

Most ready made sauces have fat in them and that will not dehydrate well, if at all.
You are best going with a powdered sauce pack and adding it in the field. Or making your own using powdered coconut milk, powdered cheese sauce, and spices. Our local health food store carries powdered coconut milk, and cheese sauce packages, as well as cubes of curry spices which are dry enough to consider for backpacking meal prep.
They also have many other dry sauce packs (gravies, soups, cheese glob, etc), but they are full of soy products, which I try to stay as far away from as possible.

 

[jlh42581]

How about a noodle packet, with the noodles removed to get an alfredo type of sauce.

 

[ndbwhunter]

Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to try some of the McCorrmicks sauce packets. I'm also trying to find a recipe for biscuits and gravy that don't require cooking the biscuits in the field. I don't think I'll find a biscuit that will rehydrate well, so I may look at idahoan potatoes with country sausage and a gravy mix.

For those of you that use the dry sauce packets, do you dehydrate the whole meal, or combine ingredients that are dehydrated individually?

 

[tlowell02]

I keep the noodles separate, cook them first then add the reminder of ingredients to the cooked pasta.

 

[beachbunny]

I like it !

 

[jlh42581]

This thread popped in my head the other day. I was in a grocery store and saw some type of frozen sauce in what looked like ice cube type trays for individual servings. Granted, if they need refrigeration you probably would want to dehydrate it or use it day 1. If in a cooler, no biggy.

 

[blackpowderhunter]

as said above, as a general rule, i avoid even attempting to dehydrate dairy or fatty foods.
one thing i've done to mix it up from the spaghetti or chili is going an Asian route.
I snag individual teriyaki sauce packets, or orange sauce packets, or general tsao's sauce packets. Instead of dehydrating regular pastas i will go with rice noodles (some you dont even need to dehydrate because they cook in like 1-2 minutes anyways) or rice/quinoa. add in some dehydrated veggies and protein and you are good to go.
by using dehydrated white rice, dehydrated canned chicken, and a mixture of dehydrated veggies + teriyaki sauce my home made yaki chicken rice and veggies blows the mountain house version out of the water!