How to dehydrate or dry fruits step by step and easily
The one known as drying or dehydration of the fruit It consists of a process that has been carried out for thousands of years due to the simplicity in its preparation and that also allowed to keep intact all the flavor of these foods for long weeks.
Also, due to the drying of the fruit, it is losing all the water in a gradual way thus favoring its conservation and avoiding the appearance of microorganisms in the form of bacteria or germs that can have a negative effect on our health.
However, it must also be borne in mind that with the dehydration of the fruit, it is possible that they are lost all the advantages of the type of vitamins A and C that are so often present in some fruits, thus causing us not to enjoy some of its main properties.
And you? Have you always wanted to know how to dehydrate the fruit? Well, if so, we can only say that you have reached the right place. And for that, you're just going to have to pay a lot of attention to the following lines so that you stay very well with all the steps that we are going to describe next.
How to dehydrate fruits step by step
Method 1 to dehydrate fruit: outdoors
- Wash and clean fruits well.
- Cut the fruits into slices (if they are very large). If they are smaller, for example figs or apricots, you can leave them whole.
- Put them on a small tray or grid, leaving space between the fruits, and place a black cloth on top, this way you will avoid that the insects can spoil them.
- Twice a day turn or flip the fruits, to get a uniform drying.
- You should leave them outdoors for 7 to 10 days, until they are completely dry.
Method 2 to dehydrate fruit: baked
- The washing and cleaning process is the same.
- Put the fruits in the oven tray, leaving separation between them.
- Turn the oven on and leave at a temperature no higher than 50º C.
- Remove when the fruits are dry. The drying time can last from 2 to 4 hours.
Now that we have learned in depth the two existing methods when dehydrating the fruit, we have found it interesting to propose two recipes whose main ingredient is papaya and the plum.
Recipe for dried papaya sponge cake
We'll start making this sweet papaya cake dehydrated for which you will need the first 200 ml of cream to mount, 300 grams of white sugar. 4 eggs, 2 cups of flour, 1 of dehydrated papaya and two spoons of sweet wine. The elaboration process will be such that:
- We start by heating the cream in a saucepan and before it starts to boil we throw all the dehydrated papaya. Let it mix with the cream for a couple of minutes.
- In a separate bowl beat the two eggs together the sugar with the help of rods. Add the cream and all the sweet wine and then add all the papayas mixed with the cream.
- We lined from the base a mold with special paper for oven and we add a little olive oil. We see all the mixture obtained in the previous point and let it cook for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. We remove everything and sprinkle a little more sugar to our liking.
Recipe of rice with tuna dried plums
You can also prepare side dishes that have Base ingredient a couple of dehydrated fruits. This is the case of the following recipe rice with tuna and dried plums that you will see how simple it is to prepare. Although for this we will need 200 grams of extra category rice, a couple of dried plums, olive oil and salt.
- We take a frying pan and in it we begin to brown the garlic with the help of a little olive oil. We fry it for a couple of minutes.
- Next, we add the rice that we will cook giving it a couple of laps. We add twice as much water depending on the amount of rice we have used.
- Finally, when the water has been consumed, we pass it all to a large container where we will toss the two cans of tuna together with the well-sliced dehydrated plums. And to enjoy!.
