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We have 2 recipes I love to use dehydrated french onion soup mix in... and I recently read the back of the package and as expected, it's full of nasties. Even just 621 and 635 are enough to make me change something. Do some serious research on what you're putting into your body with these numbers. 635 in particular changes children's behaviour around here, so I'm sure it changes mine too!... and from the diets most kids have these days, it's something many are consuming multiple times a week :-( It's toxic. It's not legal in some countries yet our government still allows it here. YOU don't have to allow it though. It's not something God ever meant for us to have in our bodies. Junk in, Junk out.
Sooo.... I made up a HUGE batch of French Onion Soup, with 4kgs of onions. I also used about a table spoon of Celtic Sea Salt in it. I kept the liquid low by using already concentrated beef broth & stock (and thus reducing time needed in the dehydrator), and, at the end of the process I have a 1.3L container filled with home made 'powdered' French Onion Soup mix to use as I normally would the toxic packets. It took about 48hours-ish to dehydrate the 'thick French Onion Soup Slop'
I like to do French Onion Lamb Chops in the slow cooker... 2kg or more of cheap lamb chops with French onion soup mix sprinkled over them. About 2tb for the first 2kg and then 3tsp for each extra kilo of chops. Some like to add in some tomato passata with theirs. I prefer it without. Cook on low for 'about that long' (sorry I can't be more specific - I'd say 8 hours-ish?)
The other main recipe I'll be using this mix for is Apricot Chicken. 1.6-2kg chicken thighs, 2 tins Apricot Nectar, 4tb french onion soup mix, 1/2 cup dried apricots or a 400g-ish tin of pie apricots, and one sliced onion. That's the recipe I start with... now I also add in about 800g-1kg of carrots peeled and sliced, and also 2 cups of green beans. Again, probably about 8 hours on low in the slow cooker?
And yes, I have large slow cookers / crock pots... 6L!
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Now if you could package that and sell it I'd be your first customer lol because I do not have a dehydrator :(
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately we'll be having some of those 600's today as I crockpoted dinner over night with a packet mix.
ReplyDeleteI too do not have a dehydrator, but now I'm seriously starting to think that I might have to get one. Then I'd probably have to get a food processor. Things to think about, I guess.
Hay, guess what? I'm sprouting mung beans, and a couple of other seeds. :o)
What a fabulous idea. I have ordered a dehydrator - hopefully it will be here tomorrow - and the idea of dehydrating soup never occurred to me. Guess who will be experimenting...lol. Thanks for the tip.
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