Dried fruits from apples in the oven

Not always in shops and in the market you can buy quality dried fruits . But they can easily be done on their own. Now we will tell you how to make dried fruits from apples and pears in the oven.

How to dry apples in the oven?

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Preparation

For drying, it is better to use sweet and sour apples. Sweet apples do not dry better, because then they become completely tasteless. Sort them by size, then mine, remove the damage and core. We cut apples with lobules or circles. Peel can be cleaned, and you can leave. To ensure that the apples do not darken, we stand them in saline (10 liters of water, 100 grams of salt), and then dry in the sun. After that, dry apples are laid out on a baking sheet, put in the oven and at 80 ° C leave for 6 hours. When 2/3 of moisture evaporates, reduce the temperature to 50 ° C and dry for about 1 hour. Then take apples on baking trays from the oven and cool. Ready-made apple drying is conveniently stored in a glass jar closed with a foil or lid. In order to fit them a lot, they can be smeared with tolstick.

How to make dried fruits from apples in the oven?

Ingredients:

Preparation

From the resulted quantity of apples as a result it will turn out approximately 1,1 kg of drying. Apples sorted, mine and cut into mugs or slices. The core can be removed, or it can be left. To prevent the apples from darkening, they are better to try: in hot water (do not bring to a boil), lower the apples for 3-5 seconds. Next, the apples are slightly dried and laid out on a baking tray or grill. Dried apples in 3 stages: hours 2 Dry apples at a temperature of 50 ° C. This temperature is needed to ensure that the apples are not crusted. Since if the crust appears, then the water from the apple slices can not evaporate. To ensure that apples do not burn, you do not need to cover the oven door tightly. After this step, raise the temperature to 70 ° C and dry the apples for another 2 hours with the door slightly opened. And only after this time the oven is tightly covered and dried apples at a temperature of 80 ° C for 1 hour.

In the oven, you can also make dried fruits from apples and pears. To do this, choose slightly unripe pears, also cut them into plates and dry them in the oven in the same way as apples. In the drying process, apples and pears need to be mixed several times.