How to dry fruit with herbs – Guide to using a dryer
In this article, Wilden.herbals takes you step-by-step through the benefits of drying and how to dry fruit with herbs.
The culture of DIY, of taking care of oneself creatively to produce winter supplies, is a very old practice that over the centuries has allowed humans to develop countless dishes adapted for de-seasonalized consumption.
Drying fruits and plants is a very simple process, and with a small home dryer, you can do great things.
Taking advantage of the abundance of fruits that cover our tables and market stalls in the summertime, we spent Sunday morning preparing a mix of seasonal dried fruits, accompanied by the flavors of common herbs that are readily available.
Ingredients:
- 500 g apricots
- 500g plums plums
- 500g thigh pears
- 10g rosemary
- 10g lavender
- 10g sage
- 10g thyme
- 10g basil
Procedure:
Cut the apricots and plums in half and remove the stone, then cut the thigh pears into 1-inch-thick slices. Prepare the herbs by cutting them evenly into sprigs no longer than 4.5 cm. Arrange the fruit spaced on the trays on the Teflon sheets placed in the drying tray. Set the dryer to 48 hours at 60° and every 12 hours turn the fruit in the pan. Let cool and store the dried fruit with the herbs in a glass jar.
Now you will have countless good occasions and recipes where dried fruits can pamper you this winter!
