Dehydrated sauces, need a little help an d insight

“I am looking for a good alfredo sauce recipe for dehydrating and a few tips on how to do it right. Any other easy sauce mixes would be appreciated. I plan on carrying a bunch of dehydrated pasta and then adding the sauces for each meal.”

“Hi there! :-)

Maye you can use powdered milk, corn starch, grated parmesan cheese and spices? All you need is to add water and butter (or maybe olive oil.).

In a way, it's kind of like the Kraft Macaroni and cheese mix concept, but made from scratch... :-)


I use the following method for cheese sauces in general... and I'm sure that if you use powdered milk, you could adapt it to the trail...

Make a "roux" by melting the butter (or using olive oil) and adding a TBS or so of corn starch.

Once the fat & cornstarch mixture has become a little "browned" (but not burned)...

In a separate cup, mix water with powdered milk (For hiking and a single meal, I would suggest making about 1 cup of milk - I usually go a little heavy on the powdered milk, so that the cheese sauce is creamier.)

Pour the milk into the roux and stir like crazy until the lumps go out and the milk starts to thicken (like a gravy).

Add the parmesan cheese (more or less depending on your taste).

Add some powdered garlic, dried parsley flakes, salt and pepper to taste.

Once the cheese has melted and it's become like a cheese sauce, then you're ready to pour it over your noodles. :-)

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This is kind of a generic cheese sauce recipe, so if you were to use other cheeses, but skipping the garlic, you could make a macaroni and cheese sauce using the above process...:-)

Good Luck!

--Pinkbubelz”

“email me later squirrelbait. Sass has a recipe that is easy and good (we make it at home too). I just need time to find it.”

“McCormick makes the prepackaged sauce mix . they are pretty good you can find them in the spice section”

“McCormick and also Knorr make great sauce packets..use 1/3 cup dry milk for every cup pf milk called for on the back. And butter travels well.”