Trail Meal | Vermicelli soup
Vermicelli pasta is great for converting into trail meal recipes since it cooks fast and can provide a lot of filling power in a small package. A staple ingredient in any Dutch vegetable soup, vermicelli can also be adapted easily as a change of the ever-popular Instant Noodle Soup. Read on for the recipe!
Vermicelli is a small pasta that can be found in almost any grocery store in Europe, and can be a great plus cheap way to make some trail meal recipes out off. In this first recipe that I’m making with the ingredient, I explore a soup, since that is what I am most familiar with when it comes to Vermicelli. Keep in touch for my upcoming recipes!
Ingredients and Prep
What you will need for the recipe for Vermicelli soup is all basic stuff you can find in almost any grocery store, you can always adapt and change the vegetables and meat component to what you have available or prefer.
- Vermicelli noodles – 60 grams
- Boulion cube or powder of choice, chicken, vegetable, or beef
- Black pepper – to taste
- Salt – teaspoon (depends on the saltiness of your stock)
- Dehydrated vegetables – three tablespoons (I used a mix of: Leek, carrot, celery, celery root, onions, parsley, lovage)
- Meat or fish compontent (optional, you can use summer or dried sausage, jerky, tuna, etc.)
- 400 ml of water
The Prep work of the ingredients is minimal and the only labor intensive part of it is the vegetable part, you can cut and dehydrate your own vegetables of choice and use them. Or buy as I did this time a freeze dried mix in the spice aisle.
Getting the Trail Meal ready to go involves putting all the ingredients in a ZipLoc bag (1 liter is plenty), be sure to label and date your trail meal and store in a cool, dry, and dark place until your ready to go.
Trail weight without meat compontent: 80 grams
Trail weight with meat: 160 grams (2 smoked sausages in my case)
On trail cooking
On trail cooking for this Trail Meal of Vermicelli Soup is as always minimal to save time and effort for other chores on a hike, throw everything in your favorite cooking setup like a fancee feast alcohol stove setup with 400 milliliters of cold water, and bring to a boil. Let stand a few minutes and dig in.
You can also watch my YouTube Short I made making this recipe, please subcribe for more!
I hope you give the recipe a try and be sure to let me know how you improved it for your tastes or needs!
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