Nutrition
| Per 100 g | Per 1 oz (28 g) | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 281 kcal | 80 kcal |
| Protein | 2.7 g | 0.8 g |
| Fat | 1.3 g | 0.4 g |
| saturated | 0.5 g | 0.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 59.7 g | 16.9 g |
| sugars | 43.4 g | 12.3 g |
| Fibre | 14.2 g | 4 g |
| Sodium | 6 mg | 2 mg |
Estimated from the ingredients, for the finished dried product. Actual values vary with the produce you use and how far you dry it.
Ingredients
- 7/8 cup apple juice, unsweetened
- 1.3 kg medium-size apples (about 7 medium), cored and sliced into rings, about 1/4 inch thick
- 7 medium-size bananas, sliced into rounds, about 1/4 inch thick
- 3 3/4 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 7/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Cut the apple rings and get them into the apple juice inside a minute. Juice from the same fruit does the browning job that lemon does elsewhere without making the chips sour.
- Slice the bananas straight onto their tray and do not dip them. Banana falls apart in liquid and a dipped round arrives on the tray as a smear.
- Keep both fruits at about 6 mm. Any thinner and the banana will not survive being lifted off the tray.
- Give apples and bananas separate trays. Banana takes several hours longer than apple, and putting them together means either leathery apple or still-sticky banana.
- Dust both with the cinnamon and nutmeg while the surfaces are damp. Nutmeg in particular is potent, so err low — you cannot brush it off later.
- Dehydrate at 57 °C for 10 hours. Peel the banana rounds up and turn them over around the middle of the run; they weld themselves down as their sugar comes to the surface.
- Apple is done when a ring is dry to the touch with no glistening spots. Banana is done when it has gone from cream to amber and no longer dents under a fingernail.
- Switch the machine off and leave the trays inside with the door shut to cool. They crisp as they cool, and moving them to a cold bench too quickly makes them pick up condensation.
- Once cold, jar the two separately. Apple holds six months and banana about three — banana carries more sugar and goes sticky first.
