Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Dehydrating Food Recipes

By Marjorie J McDonald


Follow these top 5 best dehydrator recipes for fruit that you will find you can make in the comfort of your kitchen and you will have delicious gifts for yourself and your family and friends.

Fruit Rollups also on occasion called Fruit Leathers

You can choose almost any sort of fruit. Puree the fruit and add lemon juice, honey, cinnamon or nutmeg. Pour out the mix on the dehydrator tray and dry the mixture for 8-20 hours depending on the liquid content in the fruit. At 1400C. Take off the dehydrated mixture, tear into strips or squares and roll them.

Banana Chips

This lets you utilise your ripened bananas and stop them from further spoiling. Cut the bananas into 1/4 in. thick slices and soak them in lemon juice. Dehydrate the fruit at 1500C for 24 hours before you get them out of the machine.

Raisins

Do you like raisins? If you do, then you can make them yourself. Visit the produce section at your fave market and see what you may use to form a spread of raisins or crasins.

It is easy to get a variety or flavours by selecting cranberries, blueberries, red grapes, green grapes, concord grapes or the dark purple grapes.

Just arrange the grapes or berries inside your dehydrator to evaporate the moisture.

Dried Peaches or Apricots

Dried peaches or apricots are very sweet. You can begin by peeling them, removing the pit, cutting them in half and then preparing them by slicing them. Dry them under 1350C for 20 hours so they become dehydrated.

Trail Mix

For a heavenly yet healthy treat why wouldn't you try mixtures? Just combine together a combination of coconut, different kinds of nuts, apple chips and banana chips.

Remember to totally clean and dry your food dehydrator whenhave finished using the unit as this will preserve it for a longer extended time period and you'll have to buy dehydrator trays lessfrequently because they will last longer.




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