About twice a year I go to the trouble to make a huge batch of really good, homemade sauces. Those sauces always include jerk and mole. About a year ago I had some leftover mole in the freezer to use up and it seemed as good an idea as any to simmer it with some fake chicken and dehydrate for a future meal. Throughout the year, I looked at it a few times and considered bringing it along on trips, but always hesitated because I hadn't experimented much with dehydrated fake chicken yet. I was worried it would rehydrate weird, tough or rubbery, and I'd find myself hungry and disappointed at camp after a long day's hike.
So I couldn't keep staring at it in the food bin. I knew I had to open it up and at least find out how it fared over the passage of time.
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| First glance- nothing awry |
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| Packaged the mole chicken with some dehydrated cooked brown rice |
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| Covered with water, brought to a boil, simmered for 3 minutes and let it sit, covered, for 10 minutes, |
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| Looks good! |
The end result was actually delicious, no loss in flavor quality, no rancidity despite the presence of nuts in the mole, and the fake chicken rehydrated very well. I shredded it thoroughly before cooking, which definitely helped, since the larger pieces that rehydrated were a bit on the chewy side. Point taken: always small pieces for the chicken.
I ended up lobbing everything into a tortilla with sour cream, avocado, cilantro and green onions. It was delicious.
Not going to bother publishing the recipe at this time, since it's really not field tested. But definitely going to find its way into a future trip!
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