I love dehydrated fruit! It’s so sweet and chewy, and it’s wonderfully portable…great for sack lunches or snacks when you’re hiking. It’s also a great thing to have around for recipes! Snip some dried fruit into your muffin mix or shake some up with raw nuts and seeds for trail mix. It’s a wonderful food to have in your pantry, ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Dehydrated pear slices are easy to make in your food dehydrator, but if you don’t have a dehydrator that’s OK. You can make it in your oven, too! You’ll want to start with fresh organic pears, ripe but not mushy. Wash them and slice them…you can core them first, but I like the way they look sliced right through, stem and all. It’s kind of fun to nibble around the seeds and stem, and as a bonus it makes the prep work very easy! You can dip your fruit in lemon juice if you’d like, but I skip that step. I love the idea of dried pears being just pears, and nothing else! Slice the pears between 1/4 and 1/2 inches thick. The thinner the slice, the more dry they will be, thicker slices will be more flexible.
After you’ve sliced your pears, arrange them on the trays of your food dehydrator. If you’re using the oven, place them on parchment lined cookie sheets or on cooling racks stacked on cookie sheets. Follow the instructions on your food dehydrator for the temperature and time settings, or set your oven to 160 degrees and pop the pears inside. If your oven doesn’t go that low, you can use the “warm” setting instead. In the oven, your pears will take about 3-6 hours…check after 3 hours, and then every half-hour or so after that. When they are the texture you’d like, take them out and let them cool before putting them in an airtight container.
If you dehydrate a lot of fruit and won’t be using it in the next few months, it’s a good idea to seal it in something airtight and keep it in the freezer. It will keep better, and you won’t have to worry about it going stale if you don’t eat it right away.
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