How do I use dried zucchini chips?

[Sally Furniss]

Hi,

I have some zucchini chips that I dried earlier this year.

I would like to use them in a quiche.

Do I need to soak them first? If yes, then how long for?

I also have dried tomatoe.

 

[Snowy Owl]

Re: How do I use dried zucchini chips?

One entrée that many of my guests appreciated is zucchinis with tsaziki sauce.

Tsaziki sauce is made with a base, plain yougourt, sour cheese or both, cucumber juice or mash, mashed garlic, basilic and salt, you fill a bol in the middle od the plate surrounded by your dried or fried zuchinnis. It is great.

With dry tomatoes, sky is the limit, in salad, in sandwiches (I roast those sandwiches in a pan on both sides, in potatoes salad, once potatoes cooked, cut it in square, add ,ayonnaise, green onions, green peas, parsley and dried tomatoes)

 

[Sally Furniss]

Re: How do I use dried zucchini chips?

Thank you Snowy,
I'll try both of those ideas.

 

[susieM]

Re: How do I use dried zucchini chips?

I find that if I use any of my dried vegetables without soaking them for about twenty minutes first, they tend to have the same taste as the bought dehydrated soups do. So I soak them in enough water or cooking liquid first, and the taste is more natural.

 

[LMonty]

Re: How do I use dried zucchini chips?

Try soaking them in double strength green or other tea of your preference, with raisens and walnuts. Overnight in your fridge works great, pour the hot tea over them then place the bowl where its cool for at least a few hours. Take half out, blend in blender. Mix up with your favorite zucchini or banana bread recipe, and fold in the unmashed ones right before baking. You never taste the tea, but the antioxidents work at keepign the vegetable fresh and moist, it doesnt spoil as quickly IME and it boosts the nutrition quite a bit.

Makes the best darn zucchini bread. Doing the same things with banana chips is awesome. I keep a couple of pounds of cheap commercial banan chips in my preps just for this. Great comfort food. I like to find things like that in case times ever get tough- a loaf of that would be a welcome treat. Made with coconut oil, and soem additives like a couple of tablespoons each of wheat germ and flax seed meal, and rice and/or oat bran, its great way to sneak soem really heathy stuff into those family members that would normally refuse to even try that type of food. Good nutrition is important all the time -but even more so in stressful situations. IMHO things like this arent just luxuries, there morale boosters!

I wish I knew if heat affected elderberry active ingredients. Ive been thinking about making goodies with some of the extract, or elder "tea".

I love the dried tomato pieces in soups and stews and casseroles. Adds color, lycopene and tastes great!

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: How do I use dried zucchini chips?

how about zucchini dip?

Just google "recipe zucchini dip".

It all gets buzzed in a blender.

Then you'd have Z2Z - Zucchini chips to zucchini dip.

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