Last night I decided to try soaking some nuts again, thanks to the encouragement of blog reader Chava. (Here’s why I soak nuts.) I had some unroasted walnuts that I thought would work well, so I soaked them overnight in water with sea salt. Early in the afternoon, I strained them out, rinsed them, and put them in the dehydrator at 145 degrees (my oven doesn’t go low enough and over-toasted the nuts I tried in the past). And since four cups of walnuts only took up one tray, I chopped up a bunch of purple onions I bought at .29 lb and prepared four trays of those, so the dehydrator wouldn’t be running for just one tray.
After dinner, I took the tray out, and they were done perfectly. The kids and I tasted them, and we all agreed that they are good – they hardly tasted any different than they usually do.
I’m so glad I tried to do this again. Now that I see how easy it is, and the results are good, I’ll try to integrate this on a regular basis. The easiest way to do it would probably be to buy and then prepare a large batch of nuts at a time, so that they are all dehydrated at one time.
Avivah
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