Homemade Vegetable Bouillon Powder – How to Make Your Own Vegetable Bouillon Powder

 

Looking for an easy way to add rich, savory flavor to your homemade dehydrated camping meals? Try making your own homemade vegetable bouillon powder. This is a simple blend of nutritional yeast, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, parsley, celery seed, and turmeric. It’s a low-sodium, shelf-stable seasoning that adds more flavor to dehydrated meals while in the field or at the campsite. Just a tablespoon or so is all you need.

A supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder in a 1-pint canning jar.
We restocked our supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder. We’ll use this in our day-to-day cooking as well as in our homemade dehydrated camping meal recipes.

How to Make Your Own Vegetable Bouillon Powder

We’re all about convenience out in the field or at the campsite. To this end, we do the hard work at home before heading out into the field.

Making your own vegetable bouillon is simple enough. All you need is a handful of easy-to-source ingredients. Some of these are things you can make yourself using your food dehydrator.

Most store-bought bouillon is a highly processed, convenience food. Just take a look at the ingredients, salt, sugar, and ingredients that come from your grade school chemistry set, followed by stuff you might recognize as foods you might actually use when making a broth or stock.

Supplies Needed to Make Vegetable Bouillon Powder

  • Common kitchen tools, including cutting boards, spice grinder, measuring tools, etc.
  • Wide-mouth canning jar funnel
  • A canning jar with a tight-fitting lid
  • Desiccant packets for moisture control (optional)

Ingredients to Make Vegetable Bouillon Powder

  • 1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes
  • 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon dehydrated parsley
  • 1/8 teaspoon turmeric

Ingredient Notes

We use Anthony’s Premium Nutritional Yeast Flakes. A 16-ounce container lasts a long time. It’s inexpensive and available on Amazon and has over 24,000 customer reviews, averaging 4.7 stars out of 5. Over 90 percent of the ratings have either a 4-star or 5-star rating.

Step 1. Process the Vegetable Bouillon Ingredients

Out of the container, the nutritional yeast is flakey. The nutritional yeast needs to be further processed to a powder-like consistency so it better dissolves when we reconstitute our dehydrated meals. This is easily done using your spice grinder.

The nutritional yeast flakes, celery seed, and kosher salt in the spice grinder bowl.
We are loading up the spice grinder with the Step 1 ingredients. The bottom layer is our Anthony’s nutritional yeast flakes. Seen at the top is the celery seed, and at the bottom is the kosher salt. The next step will be to turn this all into a powder.

This is the spice grinder we use; it’s available at Amazon.com. It has close to 4,000 customer reviews, with an average of 4.4 stars out of 5.  It comes with 2 grinding bowls, a 2-blade grinder, and a 4-blade chopper. It’s also easy to clean out the spice residue when you’re finished.

We’ll also add the celery seed and kosher salt to the mix before we break down the nutritional yeast flakes using our spice grinder. Powdering the celery seed, kosher salt, and nutritional yeast optimizes the bouillon for use in our Dehydrator Chef 30-minute meals.

Step 2. Combine the Ingredients

Empty the powdered contents of the spice grinder into the canning jar.  

The Step 1 processed vegetable bouillon ingredients.
The Step 1 processed ingredients. We pulsed the nutritional yeast, celery seed, and kosher salt into a coarse powder. The next step is to combine the powder with the spices to make the homemade vegetable bouillon.

Then, add the remaining ingredients to the canning jar.

The homemade vegetable bouillon step 2 ingredients in a small bowl. From the top left going clockwise; dehydrated parsley, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme. In the center is turmeric.
The spices needed for Step 2 in our homemade vegetable bouillon recipe. From the top left, going clockwise, dehydrated parsley, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme. In the center is turmeric.

Put the tight-fitting lid on the canning jar and shake it to mix up the ingredients thoroughly.

Step 3: Storing Your Homemade Vegetable Bouillon

We’ll use a food-safe desiccant packet for moisture control because we live in a fairly humid area. For our pint-size or quart-size canning jars, we’ll use a single food-safe 5-gram desiccant packet. The desiccant packets will absorb any moisture and help extend the bouillon’s shelf life.

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These food-safe 5-gram desiccant packets will absorb moisture from small enclosed spaces, such as our canning jars. Use one packet for a pint, quart, or half-gallon size canning jar with a tight-fitting lid. They come sealed in a heavy-duty reusable zip-top bag to protect the desiccant packs from moisture before use. The orange indicators will turn dark green when they need to be recharged or replaced. They can be easily recharged either in a microwave or oven.

We use these inexpensive food-safe desiccant packets, which are available from Amazon. These 5-gram packets have over 5000 of mostly 4- and 5-star customer reviews, with an average of 4.7 stars out of 5.  Our bag of 60 desiccant packets will last quite a while because they can be recharged and reused multiple times. Other food-safe sizes are available.

A supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder in a 1-pint canning jar.
We restocked our supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder. We’ll use this in our day-to-day cooking as well as in our homemade dehydrated camping meal recipes.

Lastly, attach or include a short note describing the jar contents. The label identifies the canning jar contents, and the date helps with the rotation schedule.  A first-in, first-out rotation helps us to use items that have been on the shelf the longest, so we’re using the oldest food first. This method helps us maintain the integrity of dehydrated products.  The note also lets me know where to go in my dehydrator logbook if I want to make an update.

Weights, Measures, and Serving Sizes

Generally, use between 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons of the homemade vegetable bouillon powder to 1 cup liquid.

One tablespoon of this homemade vegetable bouillon weighs approximately 8 grams.

Homemade Vegetable Bouillon Powder Nutrition Information

Approximate Serving Size: 8 grams | Calories: 30kcal | Total Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 275mg | Carbohydrate: 3g | Dietary Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0g| Protein: 4g

A supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder in a 1-pint canning jar.

Homemade Vegetable Bouillon Powder

Dehydrator Chef
This is our step-by-step guide on how to make vegetable bouillon powder. It's really easy to do and add's more flavor and unami to our dehydrated meals.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dehydrated Food Ingredient
Cuisine Backpacking, Camping, Dehydrated Food, Hiking
Servings 8 tablespoons
Calories 30 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes
  • 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dehydrated parsley
  • 1/8 teaspoons turmeric

Instructions
 

Process the Vegetable Bouillon Ingredients

  • Combine the nutritional yeast flakes, celery seed, and kosher salt into the spice grinder.
    1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes, 1/2 teaspoon celery seed, 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    The nutritional yeast flakes, celery seed, and kosher salt in the spice grinder bowl.
  • Pulse the spice grinder several times until the nutritional yeast flakes resemble a coarse powder.
    The Step 1 processed vegetable bouillon ingredients.

Combine the Ingredients

  • Empty the contents of the spice grinder into a canning jar.
  • Add remaining ingredients.
    1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme, 1 1/2 teaspoons dehydrated parsley, 1/8 teaspoons turmeric
    The homemade vegetable bouillon step 2 ingredients in a small bowl. From the top left going clockwise; dehydrated parsley, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme. In the center is turmeric.
  • Cover the canning jar with the tight-fitting lid. Then shake to combine.
    A supply of homemade vegetable bouillon powder in a 1-pint canning jar.

Nutrition

Serving: 8gCalories: 30kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 4gFat: 1gSodium: 287mgFiber: 2g

Nutrition information is only an estimate and may differ depending on the ingredients you use.

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