How to you love to season your zucchini chips? What's your favorite way to preserve zucchini? Get the printable recipe card here: www.thepurposefulpantry.com/ways-to-dehydrate-zucchini/
Can you do the same with squash? I have some squash that grew too big. So I was wondering if I could half the squash and take out the center with seeds and then dehydrate to make powder???
I love you. You are so real. You are an admittedly messy cook (me too!), you measure with guesstimates (used to drive my kids nuts when they were learning, but now I have one converted to our messy, spirited kitchen ways), you unashamedly mention shortcomings in your process and work to improve it. Keep up the good work, sister.
@@christinabradley4590 It will if you dry it completely. But if you dry til soft & plyable it works great. I just made it this week. Perfect... It soaks up the sauce & cuts easily when baked.
I have done this fresh after salting it and letting it sit for a few minutes to pull out some of that extra water. It worked great. Thanks for the memory because I was recently diagnosed as a type two diabetic and have to cut pasta out pretty much. I see lasagna in my future!
zucchini "bacon" = thin 1/4 inch or thinner planks seasoned with brown sugar, ginger, S & P bake on parchment paper in med oven till dehydrated chewy and or crispy.(about 2 hours) soooo good!!!
Wow, I’ve been missing out too long…I make a curried zucchini soup which is vegan, I’m not a vegan but this soup is delicious and the cooked zucchini gets blended in the end…now that I think of it the only ingredients are onion, zucchini, and potato, and curry powder. I could dehydrate all the components and put them in jars with instructions and put them in my Christmas Baskets! Thanks for the inspiration!!!!!!! ♥️🙏👍🇺🇸🤓
@@sandysmith7029 sure, I got the recipe from Everyday Food Magazine: it is in my style of writing recipes down. I have made this soup many times and I’m always surprised at how good it is. 1TBSP Olive Oil 1 medium onion chopped Salt and pepper 2 big cloves of garlic minced 2 tsp curry powder (green) 1 1/2 lbs zucchini sliced about 3 medium 1 baking potato peeled, chopped Cook onion in oil and 1 TBSP salt til soft, add garlic and curry powder, stir for about 1minute to bloom the spice. Add zucchini, potato, a quart of water, bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer, cook until tender. Purée soup either in blender or I use a stick blender because it’s safer. I have had my share of mishaps with blenders and hot liquids!🤣 I will work out the amounts of dehydrated potato, zucchini and onion when I can, I like to put the soup ingredients together. In a jar so it’s handy!
I heard that zucchini season is the only time you have to lock your car when you're just running into the post office because if you don't it will be full of zucchini when you come back out!
I add extra zucchini to my fruit preserves, tomato sauce and salsa. Zucchini takes on the flavor of foods around it and it adds a thickness to your foods.
You can also chop them into tidbits and mix them with pineapple juice. There's an actual recipe for this but it makes a pineapple zucchini. You can use it in recipes in place of pineapple and you also can use it to make pineapple zucchini bread yum
I recently ran into your channel. I love your style & yes I get messy & thats just part of having fun! I just ordered your book "Dehydrating Basics & Journal For Beginners." I'm not a beginner but you have SO many great tips. I've learned many practical & sensible ways from your videos. Keep up the great work. You're a wonderful teacher! I can't wait to get your book! 😊👍💛
Thank you! I really needed this. We are drowning in zucchini from our garden right now even though we've given a lot away. I'll be trying my hand at dehydrating zucchini this weekend for the first time. This video was very helpful.
I know this video is a year old, but I didn't have any zucchini last year. We do have zucchini this year, and I have dehydrated it and made powdered zucchini. Hubby thought I was crazy (which I truly am), until I told him how I can add it to foods for extra veggies. He loved the idea! Thanks for sharing!!
Hi Darcy, I have just found you 😁 and I’m so glad I have. I bought a 9 tray Excalibur dehydrator about 6 or so years ago and must admit the book that came with it didn’t have a lot of information. I have binge watched your channel over the past week or so and have loved every minute ………. I have learnt more about dehydrating in this time than I have in 6 years. I used to “sprout” a lot of different nuts for my husband I and chicken tenders as treats for our dog………because they always turned out pretty well 😁. Berries, fruit and veggies not so much as they usually went yucky after a while. The last week or so I have dehydrated spinach, celery, mushrooms, capsicum and onion and followed your example of drying them brittle and conditioning them …… never knew about conditioning ?? Makes such a difference. After all that …….. I just wanted to say THANK YOU for sharing all the wonderful advice you give 💖💗💓 I live in Melbourne, Australia, and as we are in our sixth or seventh (?) week of lockdown due to the spread of COVID 19 this has given me something to help fill my days and stop me from going crazy 😜. At least I can get to our local market…..they are within the travel limits that have been set…..yay!! Thanks again. Kind Regards Jude
I dehydrated LOTS of zucchini chips last year and they stored perfectly in sealed jars with silica packets. After a year, I had only used them once. Was so much work....but the chickens liked them! This year I’m only dehydrating tomatoes again, along with more herbs. The dehydrated tomatoes reconstituted beautifully and after a few seconds in the vitamix made wonderful sauces, no pealing needed!
Sometimes we learn lessons about ourselves the hard way and that’s okay. I don’t think my family would use dried zucchini either. They like their zucchini sweet and never savory. I will stick to shredding and freezing for breads.
If those chips aren't overly seasoned in a way that makes them too much of a flavor, throw them into zucchini bread or powder it for veg powder! (I know you gave it to your chickens and that's not a waste, for sure), but there are other ways to use stuff even if you don't eat them alone!
@@ThePurposefulPantry I love the powder idea because in a bad time you could pull out powders and mix them up with a bit of water, and anything stored for soup.. is there other uses
I just bought a dehydrator, but have never used one. I just hit upon this site and was delighted. Now you have given me confidence to try out some veggies, later fruits, then meat. Thanks, I will be looking you up for more ideas.
I have 3 Ronco dehydrators with 8 shelves each. I cut mine in almost ½" slices when they are quite large, about 3" across the middle (seeds are still small and tender), and dry them...when dry they are about ⅛'' thick and about 1½" across. I store them in 1 gallon glass jars. My favorite way to use them is rehydrate them in a bit of broth and add them when I'm about to mash the potatoes for mashed potatoes. Looks so pretty and amount of vitamins is incredible! This Summer I got 4 gallon jars dehydrated, often running all 3 dehydrators at the same time just from two Zucchini plants, two yellow squash plants and two UFO squash plants. They are all basically the same thing and I store them together for reuse.
I love the idea of drying them and making powder. I've made lots of different veggie and fruit powders but haven't tried zucchini. I stick the powders in everything it's a great way of lifting the flavour of dishes and the fusspot kids don't now the veggies are in their food
I'm so excited, after two years of saving I finally bought my first dehydrator. I got the sunbeam DT6000 which is the best one in my country. I've watched a lot of your videos and no doubt I'll watch them again and again so thank you so much for all your hard work idea formation, research, filming, editing etc you do for each video. Xx
Thank you for all the information. Unfortunately the weather has been really bad this summer here in Austria (Europe) and I only got 1 zucchini so far. Last year the summer was really good and I had so many zucchinis. I still hope that some will grow so that I can make powder. I think the powder will be great for hiding the zucchini in pasta and meat dishes. My daughter is a picky eater, therefore the powder would be great. Greetings from rainy Austria
The Trader Joe's chilie lime season blend is a good alternative for Tajin. It has a stronger tangy lime flavor. Either seasoning are yummy as a lite dusting as the seasoning on watermelon.
Life got in the way and I lost my garden this year. I’m waiting for a squash sale so I can try dehydrating zucchini. Thank you Darcie, I’m learning a lot from you.
I truly love ALL your videos and the commentary. Im new to dehyrating and your the first and ONLY person I watch. I love your personality and wished we lived closer ! Much love from NJ!
I love how you combined all these awesome uses into one great video! Will definitely be utilizing these ideas into our zucchini uses! New subscriber here and can't wait to go through more videos.
Zucchini can cost up to $20 Kiwi dollar per kilogram, always plant in my veggie garden. You give me alot of ideas for Zucchini. We got an Ezidri dehydrator in NZ mine about 12 years old still work Fantastic 5 trays
My daughter and my grandchildren put Tajin on cucumbers, mangos, bananas, oranges, all their fruit watermelon. They love that stuff. Making dehydrated zucchini with this is a great idea. Instead of chips. Thank you. I will definitely be getting a dehydrator now.
I shreded my zucchini, measured it in a 3 cup amounts and dried that amount on each of my round trays. The perfect amount for my zucchini cake recipe, bagged them up separately all ready for baking. Grandma Sue in central Indiana and Izzi Too
Thank you. I wasn’t crazy about freezing zucchini dices for minestrone - they were too mushy. I bought a dehydrator two weeks ago and I can’t wait to try the dehydrated dices this year. These were all great ideas.
I absolutely love your videos! You jam sooooooo much useful information into them that I always want to watch them more than once. Much love from a grateful subscriber.💕 💐💐💐💐
Wow, this is awesome information! My freezer is stuffed full of bags of shredded zucchini, and I could save so much freezer space doing this instead! Thank you!
I have celiac disease and I use black beans in place of wheat flour in my brownies. Really moist and tasty; yet, no one else knows, until I tell them. I’ve not used a zucchini flour; but, I am intrigued!
Wow! Never heard of that. What's your method or process for that?? I'd love to know. I'm looking for ways to reduce both fat and carbs. Also need more iron, so looking forward to being able to make powder from green leafy veggies. I'm very sorry, btw, that you have celiac. Does not sound fun.
@@libbyholt3863 THANK YOU for your questions. Do you have and use cast iron? It will help you with the low iron. Here’s my Black Bean Brownies 1 (15.5 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 3 eggs (or equivalent egg replacement) 3 tablespoons oil ¼ cup cocoa powder 1 pinch salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ¾ cup white sugar (I use the Stevia and Monk Fruit measure for measure) 1 teaspoon instant coffee (Optional) ½ cup milk chocolate chips (or carob chips) (Optional~ I use four kinds, to decorate the top) (I have also used chopped nuts and/or coconut flakes, and marshmallows, in the batter) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter (or grease) an 8"X8"square baking dish. Combine the black beans, eggs, oil, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla, sugar, and instant coffee in a blender; blend until smooth; pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the top of the mixture. Bake in the preheated oven until the top is dry and the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes. Using a potato masher instead of a blender will give you “chunky” brownies, too. However you want more mashed than chunks. ENJOY 😋❤️
Darcy I just tried your zuc.teriyaki like you said without the water and it was awesome,then at the same time I made zuc.chips with everything bagel seasoning which I made myself and had dehydrated diced onion,and it was awesome I would do it all again they are so yummy cant get enough zuc. Before one did not know what to do with it all now I find I can’t get enough cause thanks to you I’ve also dehydrated it cubed for later and also grated I can’t thank you enough you are my dehydrator guru!!! When ever I need to know about anything dehydrated I look up your site ,I wish you would put outa book in Canada!! Your the best and I thank you!!!
I have a book - but it's about the theory of dehydrating, no dehydrating specific things. It's a Q&A type book. Just wait until next spring, though if you want a full book ;) It's coming!
😎 Also compared to a field of potatos, you can get 4 X the yield of food on the same amount of land. Of course cattails need more water. But they pretty much just grow. No franken pesticides needed.❤
You can also eat dollar weed to. The leaves dehydrate so quickly! stems not so much. But i bet be good in a stir fry with other veggies. Smelled a bit like celery
It's so fun to come across a new (to me) person sharing their knowledge! I am so excited to try some of these, like the zucchini jerky, never would have thought of that! Tried chips last year but I think I cut them too thin and didn't think to season them with more than salt and pepper. Great ideas, thank you!
Two more ways to use zucchini: 1) Turn it into a pasta noodle substitute by using a potato peeler. I use the large ones that escape detection. Peel the outer, firm part and leave the seed core in the middle. Then saute in a little oil or cook in boiling water until tender. I leave the peels on as they're not sprayed. But you can leave the peels out if you prefer. Then serve with pasta sauce over the top or stir some in before serving. Slice the core like a cucumber and eat the slices on the side plain or with oil & vinegar dressing. 2) Add zucchini to potato salad. Poke holes in zucchini and bake like a potato. Let cool. Cut into cubes the same size as the potato cubes in your potato salad. Add up to half zucchini. The flavor is mild and the texture is similar so I doubt anyone would notice (unless you leave the peelings on like I usually do).
I’ve done chips before and no body really liked them. I just did diced, and I think that size is really snackable. I’m thinking I’ll just shake a little salt in the jar, and they’ll be good by the handful.
Awesome and just in time for my zucchini to be harvested. Had found a recipe for dehydrating salt and vinegar zucchini chips and now I have more incentive to go ahead and try. Thanks!
Lots of great ideas here! Tajin is so good on just about any snack - popcorn, fresh melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, jicama, mangoes, etc. It works with everything!
This was so helpful thank you! I have oodles of both zucchini & cucumber and wanted to make chips for both...salt n vinegar cucumber chips mmmm! I think the biggest tip I learned in this video was to use the parchment paper...I'm always breaking stuff up trying to get off the metal sheets. Let me know if there are other ideas to help with sticky foods. Thanks!
I love the terriaki chip recipie you provided, and after reading many comments here, I will try using dill pickle juice, banana pepper juice, and pineapple juice for batches with my cucumbers and squash. Thanks for opening up possibilities.
I SO agree with you about the zucchini and how prolific a producer even just one plant is! And what the grocery stores charge for it is almost heinous! Zukes are every bit as easy to grow as sunflowers! UNLESS! You are trying to grow them in a humid clime. Then they are a little trickier to grow. At least that was the case for me. SO glad to have happened upon this video!
So thankful for this video!! I had so much ch zucchini last year that I didn’t know what to do with it. Definitely making the chips & powder. Maybe, jerky. Thanks so much for your time in teaching us. ❤️❤️
I just bought a zucchini today at the store. I sliced them on my mandolin, about 1/16th-1/8th” thin. I put them on 95, will check them in a few hours, and see how they are doing. I have never made them before, so I didn’t know how thin to slice them. I bought your book, and can’t wait to get it ! Very excited.
I watched this video yesterday and you inspired me! I did one batch in the dehydrator and tomorrow I'll slice up another one and try doing chips. Thank you!
You could do the same with cucumbers. Not kidding. They taste alright cooked among other vegetables. When hard times come our way, we will want to eat anything. Anything edible at all. Because when being hungry, like real hungry, ..... nothing else matters. Nothing.
Really good video. I have been dehydrating for over a decade and learned a lot in this video. I didn't know zucchinni powder could be a replacement for flour and I would have never thought a jerkey could be made. Two thumbs up! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! It's definitely not a 1:1 replacement - and can be combined with other gluten-free options for those that need it, but it's a more nutritional way of replacing some flours!
Zucchini chips are my husbands new favorite way to use up the zucchini. Making zucchini chips, we have 10 plants, and are using them up as fast as our garden can grow them. Thanks for the awesome idea.
Great info and timely....I just looked up those mesh sheets online that you talked about and will be getting shortly.Thanks! Even my husband is talking about your videos!
Thanks for all of these ideas! I'll start some now as zucchini comes on so I'm not slammed at season's end. I don't see Victoria's blog listed - about alternate flours. Did I miss it? Thank you! You're a blessing ❤
I recently found your channel and subscribed. Love your videos - very informative, great advice and good tips/instructions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on dehydrating... still learning but having fun with it. Will definitely make those zucchini chips, jerky, powder and chunks. Do I need to rehydrate before adding to soup?
Only if it's a quick cooking soup. If it's going to simmer for a long time, it should be enough. But you can certainly rehydrate beforehand if you want to be sure - that's why I should you how I do it.
Wow so many ways to use zucchini! I have 4 big ones just sitting on my counter and a dehydrator I haven't used in years. Now I know what to do with them. And it isn't dropping them at a neighbors door and running! Lol
4 more ways to use zucchini: 1) Most people make bread from the large ones. You can also make cake. 2) Use a potato peeler to make noodles as a pasta substitute. I use the large ones of this. Peel all the first part and leave the core. Then saute in oil or boil in water. Top with pasta sauce or stir the sauce into it. Then take the core, slice like a cucumber and eat that on the side plain or with some oil & vinegar dressing. 3) For small ones, quarter lengthwise. Make slices on the top and add your choice of butter or olive oil, flavored vinegar (like balsamic), broil in the toaster oven briefly. You could also use brown sugar and butter, but that works best in round squash like acorn or butternut. 4) Add to potato salad: poke holes and bake, cool and cut in chunks. Add up to 50% in potato salad. Most people will never notice. You can also use other types of squash in all these ways.
Darcy….I am right there with you, my cooking seems to be everywhere!! Thank you for this great video. Again like you, my zucchini production has been a total disappointment…not one has been grown yet..it did have two male flowers on it this morning so hope is still there…thanks again.
Looking good don't worry about the mess it come with what your doing 😉 I love what your teaching me everyone that watching you , I Thk u for teaching ❤ me.
We are in Australia, at the end of summer.. we have Ben taken over by zucchini’s… I’m so thank ful to have found this video. I know what I’m doing tomorrow. Thanks so much
Thank you. We love zucchini! And thanks to you...am dehydrating so much. And doing some powders. As humid as it is here in Florida, ordered silica gel packs to put in my jars as I have found that they will last longer and better.
