Back Country Prep: Tomato Sauce Leather

Ok, so in past Instructables I have made for back country camping we always just brought canned sauces to go with the traditional spaghetti dinner.

I had multiple people tell me that they make sauce leather to take with them and it works great. So here are the steps for making dehydrated tomato sauce.

As you will as a an extra bonus you save over a pound of weight by making this from dying only one can.

Enjoy!

Ingredients and materials:

• 680 ml can of tomato sauce
• Parchment paper
• Dehydrator
• Blender

I use parchment paper for almost everything I dehydrate. To make leather or to dry liquid based ingredient you need to use it. Some dehydrators come with special tray but this works just fine.

Blending you sauce down will aid in the drying process. You will add other dehydrated ingredients while cooking to bring back "chunks". You will get a more consistent end result if you do this step.

Spread your sauce out on your trays. Try to spread as even as possible.

I usually dry everything over night.

So I used about 10-12 hours.

My finished product was dryer than leather but was very consistent, and 100% dry.

A new 680 ml can of tomato sauce weighs in at 1 pound 12 oz.

The same dehydrated can weighs in at just 2.1 oz.

Talk about saving weight. Saving a pound is a big deal when back country camping.

Now I can bring a pillow. LOL

Hope you enjoyed this Instructable.

Chadovision