tofu jerky attempt

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Using this person's recipe and idea and my new Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator (it

is da bomb), I test drove this recipe Sunday. I liked it and son number 4 who

won't touch tofu, even to hand it to me at the grocery store, ate it and liked

it. He thought it tasted like chicken or turkey. I didn't tell him what it was

made of - he'd never trust me again. Anyway, it's pretty good.

http://chairthrower.org/tofujerky/

 

I also tried slicing carrots very thinly lengthwise, marinading them in similar

jerky spices, then drying. I dried too long with my first attempt, so turned the

carrot jerky wannabe into dust in the food processor and it adds a lovely smoky

jerkyness to soups. I'll probably try it again, using carrots, since the idea of

a slice of marinaded carrot that is chewy and takes forever to reduce to tummy

grub sounds good to me, but then I am rather odd.

 

Jeanne in GA

PS: Lightly steamed raw asparagus then soaked overnight in marinade, dried in

dehydrator and broke into little bits. Also nice in rice, soups.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'm gonna have to try this!  Thanks for that post!

 

With carrots, you may want to cook them first and try making a slurry like you

would for fruit leather.  This way you can pour it as thin as you want.  And,

the flavors get cooked in.  You lose a bit in nutrituion with cooking like that

though.

 

Ted

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Ted said " With carrots, you may want to cook them first and try making a slurry

like you would for fruit leather.  This way you can pour it as thin as you

want.  And, the flavors get cooked in.  You lose a bit in nutrituion with

cooking like that though. "

 

Thanks, Ted, I'll try that! I did do V8 juice on the permaflex (or whatever

those are called) sheets and it worked. The Excalibur dried it to the point that

it would turn to powder in the processor so now I've got several baggies of it

in our food storage. When (not in, WHEN) I get to where I can hike again, these

will be a lot lighter than cans or bottles of V8, not to mention its good in

soup. Cannot figure out why they don't already have V8 powder on the market.

(Total drying time was about 10 hours, didn't flip it, just dried.)

 

I bet the carrot slurry strips will be great, too. I've got some powdered honey

so a tiny bit sprinkled on top might go well with the marinade and smoke

flavors. Maybe even some day I can get son number 4 to eat carrots, at least

this way. I think he'd eat anything called jerky. My daughter in love adores

spicy, so I'm drying spicy diced carrots, sliced tomatoes, peas, green beans and

rice crackers for her. Of course she'll eat anything I make for her, so I don't

know how good it really will be. (She spoils me and we're rather fond of her.)

 

Darn, you really got my old brain going with the carrot slurry. Can you imagine

a bag of assorted veggie jerky and tofu jerky strips for hiking (or baseball

games on Sunday afternoon?) Yum. The dehydrated green beans were wonderful, so

I'm going to need to find some way to hide them on myself so they'll last the

winter. Maybe next time I do the V8, I'll dry it to the point it will hold a

shape, cut into strips (like for yogurt taffyish stuff) then dry till not sticky

but not totally dry. It might work!

 

Jeanne in GA

" The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the

government and I'm here to help. " Ronald Regan