Easy Dehydrated Food Recipes

Thanks for stopping by my dehydrated food recipes page where I'll show you how to make soups and stews... apple sauce to dried fruit and nut energy bars... along with home-baked breads!

✅ Looking for easy meals made with dried foods? This page is packed with soups, stews, breads, desserts, snacks, and jerky recipes—using dehydrated ingredients you already have on hand. Tap any image below to jump straight into the recipe!


Can You Really Use Dehydrated Food in Recipes?

Yes, dried foods are used in a variety of recipes, including soups, stews, casseroles, and more.

When using dehydrated foods in recipes, it's important to rehydrate them first. Simply soak the dried food in water for a few hours or overnight.

TIP: If you made a powder out of your dried foods, then you can add it "as is" to your recipe but bear in mind the powder will absorb a tad of your stock.

On the other hand, once the dried food is rehydrated, add it as you would any other ingredient. Keep in mind that dehydrated foods may need to cook a tad longer than fresh or frozen foods, so plan accordingly.

  • Dehydrated foods can add nutrition and flavor to your recipes.
  • When foods are dried, they become stronger in taste, so a little goes a long way!
  • Experiment with dried food to add more flavor to your favorite dishes.

Can You Use Dehydrated Foods in Desserts?

Dehydrated foods are great for use in desserts! Dehydrated fruits can add a lot of flavor and nutrition to sweet dishes.

For example, dehydrated bananas can be used in banana bread or muffins. Dehydrated carrots can be added to carrot cake. And not to leave out the veggies: Dehydrated zucchini can be used in zucchini bread.

So if you're looking for a new way to add extra flavor to your desserts, use some of your dehydrated fruits! You'll be pleasantly surprised at how good they taste!

More Dehydrated Food Recipes:
Keep Scrolling for our Extras!

DRIED FRUIT BAR SNACK RECIPES

Check out all of my tasty Dried Fruit Bars

Tropical Delight dried fruit barTropical Delight
Berry Bliss dried fruit barBerry Bliss
Orchard Harvest dried fruit barOrchard Harvest

Clicking on the images above will take you directly to the page that lists the ingredients used to make those fruit bars. On that same page, you will also find step-by-step instructions on how to prepare and make your own delicious dried fruit bars at home!


Ooey Gooey
Goodness Me!

Easy NO-BAKE
Dried Fruit and Nut Bars
5 ingredients! ----->

No-Bake Dried Fruit and Nut Bars on a plateEasy No-Bake 5-ingredient Dried Fruit and Nut Bars!

Ooey Gooey
Goodness Me!

No-Bake Dried Fruit and Nut Bars on a plateEasy No-Bake 5-ingredient Dried Fruit and Nut Bars!

Easy NO-BAKE Dried Fruit and Nut Bars
with just 5 ingredients!

HOME-BAKED BREADS + MORE!

Super Easy Bread 2 loaves cooling on wire rackSuper Easy Bread
Herb Bread on a wooden cutting board"Anita" Bread with Herbs
Home Baked Bread cooling on wire rackHome-Baked Bread
Millet and Quinoa in plastic tubsMillet and Quinoa

Quick + Easy PIZZA!

A slice of homemade pizza on a plate

Check out this tasty pizza with its crust made with this "Super Easy Bread" recipe!

Anita's breads are really easy to make. I am surprised at how few ingredients go into Anita's bread to be honest.

One of my favorite experiences was baking bread with my mum. We used a home-baked bread recipe, and we even impressed ourselves with how 'professional' our loaves looked!

Also in the extras, you'll see millet and quinoa. Even though they look the same, they do not taste the same at all. I find quinoa to be a little on the grainy side. With quinoa, you MUST rinse it first to get rid of the bitter taste. I use this sieve from Fantes.com to rinse my quinoa.

Most Recipes are Featured in My Recipe Book

Most of the recipes featured on this site are included in the eBook or Paperback if you prefer. The recipes are taste-tested and are so easy to make!

All the recipes in 20 Taste-Tested Easy Recipes contain dehydrated food but are not made "solely" of dehydrated food. For example, you need to add stock and meat to the soups.

chicken-noodle-soup-recipes-page-top.webp

I've also included the recipe's Nutrition Information per serving along with its Calories, Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrate amounts, too.

The recipe books also tells you what quantities of "fresh foods" to use—that you may have on hand and wish to use—instead of dehydrated!

***See which recipes are included by reading this page.


How to Make EASY MEALS with Dried Food

20 Taste-Tested Easy Recipes eBook or Paperback

20 Taste-Tested Easy Recipes

Containing dehydrated food... that even your kids and spouse will eat!

Buy Now orange button

🍕 Pizza! 🥧  Shepherd's Pie! 🥘  Beef Stew!
plus Cauliflower Soup and Cauliflower Mash, along with crazy Carrot Soup!

Decadent Desserts:
Carrot Cake and Cranberry Pineapple Pie!
and more...

Fresh food ingredient amounts are included for when you have fresh food on hand.
See which recipes are included here.


It's Easier with the Right Tools

Cooking is less of a chore when you treat yourself to the right tools. I recently got this set of lovely bright red silicone spatulas and they work like a charm! Make sure to store your leftovers in the right bags too. Read my review on FoodSaver Reusable Bags here.

Involve Your Kids in Dehydrating Fruits and Veggies!

Get your kids involved; they have fun watching the foods dry up and shrink right before their eyes! I'm always fascinated by how celery shrivels up into curls—they remind me of tiny seahorses!

kids learning how to cook, working at a long table

I hope you and your family enjoy my recipes. Meal prep time is greatly reduced because I use dehydrated ingredients—which helps when I'm in a hurry or running late.

Of course, I still have to find time to dehydrate the foods in the first place, but that's something I do on a day off!

Thanks for stopping by my dehydrated food recipes page. I hope you'll try your hand at making these recipes; they're easy (otherwise I wouldn't have made them!)

You Might Like These

You Might Like These


Before You Go...

If you like the content, please give me some love by clicking on the 🩷 in the lower right-hand corner (on just about all my pages). This signals to me that you find it enjoyable and useful.

5 Dried Food Recipes That Actually Taste Good free PDF download!

And don’t forget to grab your FREE 5 Dried Food Recipes via the opt-in form — they're waiting for you! Thank you so much! (Get it here).