I was wondering if someone know if I can substitute dried or dehydrated onions (store bought) for in the Annie's Salsa recipe - and if so, what amount?

I usually can a ton of her salsa (over 100 jars) and was hoping to speed up a step! I am getting burned out this year with my garden and the baby so was hopping a dried onion would save one dicing step :)

Any help would be wonderful!!

The general conversion of fresh to dried is 4:1 so 1 cup of chopped fresh onion would equal approx. 1/4 cup of dried chopped onion.

But it is always recommended that you rehydrate them first so that they don't use up the liquid in the rest of the recipe rehydrating and so change the overall density. So if you take the time to rehydrate them you can just measure them normally and use whatever the recipe calls for.

Not sure how much time and effort it would save in the long run but there is no safety issue I know of.

Alternative suggestions: just freeze all the ingredients for now and make the salsa in the fall when things slow down, of 2) find a better, faster way of dicing onions - food processor takes about 2 min. :)

Dave

Dave - Thank you for the conversion and for the suggestion of rehydrating them, I didnt even think about that. I do freeze the peppers in 1 1/2 cup serving size baggies to make salsa canning go quicker. I am just so sick of dicing... I planted 68 pepper plants this year and so the dicing has not stopped for a couple weeks. I plan to can over 100 pints of salsa (that does not include spaghetti, ect...) so the dicing just gets a little old ;)