In the ex-Soviet space, they call this recipe (with beef) "navy pasta". I don't know why... Too military name in my taste :D
powdered dried tomatoes -
Never heard...
"Yucky" goes into my vocabulary piggy bank :) New and useful.
In the ex-Soviet space, they call this recipe (with beef) "navy pasta". I don't know why... Too military name in my taste :D
powdered dried tomatoes -
Never heard...
"Yucky" goes into my vocabulary piggy bank :) New and useful.
You may be referring to something the Americans call "chili mac". That is where they put macaroni noodles into chili. It looks similar to this, but not quite the same.
I made the powdered tomatoes by dehydrating them and then grinding them into a powder. It is just a way to preserve the tomatoes for use during the winter months. I am surprised that this is not common where you live--considering the similar climate.
Here, people usually cook salted tomato preserves (no vinegar, just tomatoes, salt and herbs). Usually, this is about cucumbers but tomatoes too. There are other recipes in the ex-Soviet area ... but not dehydrating.
Interesting! So the tomatoes are fermented? This is a technique that has become popular here and the lactobacilli fermented foods are considered beneficial due to the friendly microbes.
The benefit of dehydrating is that when you add water again, it is like eating fresh tomato sauce.
fermented - I don't think so.
We have sour fermented cabbage here - a Russian recipe but it is also German food and, probably, Polish thing too...
fresh tomato sauce - a good thing to have... I usually buy tomato paste. Not cheap... :(
Does dehydrating take much time? Do you use a special device?.. I heard some people have a device to make dried fruits.
What people dehydrate here are apples ... But this is more about slow drying... traditionally.
What I dry are persimmons (in autumn) ... This is the best thing ...
Lactobacilli fermentation is the exact same as making the sour cabbage. Just add salt to the vegetable and store it in a jar with a vent or a crock. Depending on the water content of the vegetable, you might need to add water. The vegetable should be submerged below the liquid.
Like this:
Lacto-fermentation
I have a 'dehydrate' setting on my oven. It is a low temperature that is conducive to drying food, but will not cook or toast the food.
Some people use a food dehydrator device that is really just a slow fan that circulates warm air over a rack of trays. Hah! Sounds complicated.
Like this:
Yes, as I see lacto-fermentation looks like how people of ex-Soviet space cook "salted veggies". Russian sour cabbage is slightly something else maybe. Not sure. And it doesn't matter. :)
dehydrate' setting on my oven - this is convenient... :)
Yes, it is just a way to preserve food for those long terrible Siberian winters. :-p I actually know someone who defected from Czechoslovakia. They spent 8 years in an Italian refugee camp before they were finally accepted to Canada. When they got off the plane in Saskatchewan, they thought they had been sent to Siberia. :-D
:DD What a story!)
But as a person, who lives in Russia, I prefer a darker mirror story. Let's say .... A Russian couple wants to leave Russia, they hate the regime, and are disappointed with life and perspectives, they are active and optimistic, skilful modern people, let's say a programmer and an artist. they spend two hard years to raise money, they work with papers, they get visas and all proper appointments - a Kafkaesque adventure - and, at last, they take a plane and having a long trip to Canada. They feel happy, almost dizzy with happiness, full of dreams about new free life in Saskatchewan... No, they don't want to have good salaries from the beginning, they are ready to wash dishes at restaurants and sweep floors, and they want to slowly create a new life on the stable grounds of Canada... After several hours of flight, they landed at the airport and noticed coming prisoner transport cars - Russian ones... They are in Siberia ...They are taken to a 3-kilometre deep mine to dig coal for growing Russian industry... Then, in the hut, on the very bottom of that coal mine, they are having a humble dinner (canned fish, rye bread, fake butter, fake tea) and watching a black-and-white analogue TV with the president's speech on coal as a key ingredient for success in the XXI century... The end ... :)