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1 As with canning and freezing, dehydrated foods are only as good as the fresh fruit or vegetables. 2  When selecting fruits and vegetables for dehydration, choose ones that are ripe, unbruised and at peak-eating quality. 3  Prepare foods to be dehydrated as you want them to be served.
If it were a small quantity, say, a tablespoon of fresh onion, you could probably substitute the dried onion stuff. (If it's dehydrated onion, I would go down to one teaspoon max. If it's the granulated onion powder, I'd go down a bit less.) But since there's so much onion, I think you should go for fresh.