Just-Add-Water Garden Vegetable Soup In A Jar Recipe

Dehydration is good for more than just fruit chips and beef jerky. Dehydrated vegetables are excellent pantry staples, easily brought back into a useful state. Sometimes, they even improve, as the flavor can intensify during the drying process. This soup recipe from "The ultimate dehydrator cookbook" By tammy gangloff, steven gangloff, and september ferguson captures the essence of summer vegetables to be enjoyed any time of year. The addition of homemade dehydrated vegetable stock deepens the flavor, or commercial bouillon can be used. Layered in a quart mason jar, this soup can make an attractive and thoughtful gift from the kitchen. The hardest part is doing the dehydration ahead, and that's mostly passive time. Note that many vegetables may need to be blanched before dehydration to inactivate enzymes that could cause color or flavor to fade.