Add Fresh Vegetables To Your One-Pot Meals!

Posted by Camp Trainer on Feb 9, 2009 in Recipes • No comments • 456 views

Fresh onions, tomatoes and green peppers will keep about 5 days on a camping trip, if they are properly packed.

Place onions in a cotton or paper bag. Stow the bag inside a rigid container.

Here’s how to prepare and pack green peppers and tomatoes:

Wash the vegetables, then float them in a sink full of drinking water that has been treated with about 1/8 cup (the amount isn’t critical) of chlorine bleach. Allow the vegetables to soak for several minutes in the treated water before you dry and pack them away. The bleach will kill the surface bacteria that promotes spoilage. A similar procedure is used in some of the finest restaurants in America to keep vegetables fresh.
Separately wrap each vegetable in clean paper toweling. Pack the towel wrapped veggies in a paper or cotton sack and set the sack inside a tea kettle or other crushproof container. Do not wrap vegetables in non-porous plastic!

Tip: When you’re ready to cook, wash in fresh water only the portion of vegetable you need. Do not wash the entire vegetable. Doing so will introduce water-borne bacteria which may accelerate spoilage.