DEHYDRATE CHICKEN

HOW TO DEHYDRATE CHICKEN

To dehydrate Chicken is an excellent choice for trail food. It is also easy to dehydrate. Use it in stews, sauces, soup or thinly dried as a snack. Skinless chicken contains only a few per cent fat, so it does not go rancid, unlike salmon, pork, or other fatty foods. It is best to use chicken fillets as they are the leanest. It is possible to dehydrate other chicken parts if you cut off fatty pieces.

A clever method is to slice and roast chicken in the oven until it is dry, then continue to dry it in the same oven. Moving the chicken to a food dehydrator is then unnecessary. Drizzle marinade over the fried slices if you want more flavour. Alternatively, marinate the chicken beforehand.

You can also roast the whole chicken fillet and slice it before dehydrating it – but you won’t be able to slice it as thin as if frozen. So, cutting fried fillets into a few pieces and separating them into threads/fibres is better.