Spicy Backpacking Spaghetti

An easy and delicious meat sauce to create one of the ultimate comfort food dishes. Easily dehydrated for backpacking.

I don’t know about you, but one of my all time favourite comfort foods is pasta. And specifically, my mom’s spaghetti with meat sauce. So this dish is inspired by that very thing (thanks mom!).

Why skip out on your favourite foods in the backcountry?? Bring them with you!

Dehydrating this recipe is extremely simple. You literally just make your meat sauce as you usually would at home, spread it on to your dehydrator trays, and pop it in the dehydrator!

The nice thing about ground meat is that when it’s dehydrated and then rehydrated, it retains it’s texture fairly well. Trust me, you won’t even know it was dehydrated! Some other proteins (like chicken breast) are a little more difficult to not have chewy or dry once dehydrated and rehydrated.

Don’t like your food too spicy? No worries, reduce or omit the red chilli flakes out of the recipe below!

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Spicy Backpacking Spaghetti

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Yield: -4 servings+

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Prep time: 20 MinCook time: 30 MinTotal time: 50 Min

An easy and delicious meat sauce to create one of the ultimate comfort food dishes. Easily dehydrated for backpacking.

IngredientsUSMetric

• 500g lean ground beef or wild game (I used ground elk meat)
• 1/2 large yellow onion, diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tsp (1g) dried oregano
• 1 tsp (1g) dried basil
• 1/4 - 1/2 tsp (0.25-0.5g) red pepper flakes
• 2 tsp (10ml) tomato paste
• 500ml favourite red pasta sauce (I used roasted red pepper)
• salt and pepper, to taste
• box of spaghetti or spaghettini noodles
• parmesan cheese for topping (optional)

Instructions

1. Brown meat in large pan on medium heat. Add onions and garlic and cook for another 3 minutes.
2. Add spices, tomato paste, and pasta sauce and stir. Cook for 5 minutes until sauce is bubbly. Remove from heat.
3. Spread in thin layer on dehydrator trays. Dehydrate at 155F for 6-8 hours until dry and crumbly.
4. Transfer to resealable bag or portion into individual bags. 1 cup dehydrated sauce = 1.5-2 cups rehydrated sauce (about 1 serving).
5. To rehydrate, add 1:1 boiling water (1 cup mix to 1 cup water) and let stand for 15-20 mins until fully rehydrated and meat is no longer crunchy.
6. Boil water and add your spaghetti noodles. Cook until desired doneness, strain out water, add spaghetti sauce and enjoy!

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