[Yana]

I'm going to try this out for myself, but curious as to whether anyone has dehydrated cooked quinoa and rehydrated it again? I am most interested in whether or not it comes back "well" (e.g., tasted good, decent texture, reasonable soaking time),

[BirdDog]

Isn't it dehydrated when you buy it? Why hydrate it (cook it), dehydrate and rehydrate? Honest question. And no, I've never done that. The cooked stuff seems to keep well unrefrigerated, and heats up very quickly when fried.

[Yana]

No, quinoa (at least not the kind I've ever prepared) is not like couscous , to which you can just add water.

[Navy salad]

As a matter of fact, I've got a ziplock bag of dehydrated cooked quinoa sitting in the freezer right now. It rehydrates quickly and tastes (to me) the same as the fresh cooked stuff. Besides, no one I know eats plain quinoa and after you combine it with other stuff, you'll never know the difference.

[Yana]

Thanks, Navy salad!

[wamtngal]

Yana -- Todd and I dehydrated quinoa for the first time this summer. Best. Dinners. Ever. Couple of tips: --Premeasure the quinoa before dehydrating. I took a 1 cup measuring cup and filled it with cooked quinoa and then added it to a waxed dehydrator tray. I put 1.5 cups per tray, which equaled one meal. Todd and I both found that we were full with 1.5 cups of rehydrated quinoa. --Crush the dried quinoa to eliminate clumps / wasted space (and the clumps poke holes in the baggies more). I did this by taking a cookie tray, emptying the tray of dehydrated quinoa on it, cover it with wax paper and then take a rolling pin and break down the clumps. Then it's almost back to looking how it is before cooking it. The time to rehydrate was pretty quick. About as fast as cous cous and I think that quinoa is more filling. The only downside is that I eventually got lazy, wanted to finish packaging up two weeks worth of dinners and did 1/2 quinoa and 1/2 cous cous dinners in the end...Dehydrating a lot of quinoa takes a while.

[mbtigger]

Thanks for the question. I may try this myself next season

[nuclear_eggset]

Yup, I've done it too - and ditto to the tips that wamtngal posted. works great for me. I have, in a pinch, taken dehydrated, plain quinoa (leftover from making other things at home) and freeze dried veggies and bouillon to rehydrate on trail.

[Critter]

Dehydrated quinoa is one of my staples!!!

[Navy salad]

By the way, only slightly off topic: an easy way to cook quinoa (at home) that I discovered is to just bring it to boil, place a lid on the pot, then immediately take it off the burner and insulate the pot. I generally just wrap the pot in a towel. An hour later, it's perfectly cooked with no need to watch it and no sticking to the bottom.

[sarbar]

So easy. I cook in broth, then dehydrate it on parchment paper. Then you have instant quinoa. You can also do a thermos method of cooking it as well: http://blog.trailcooking.com/2012/08/08/the-thermos-method-for-quinoa/