Nutrition
| Per 100 g | Per 1 oz (28 g) | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 456 kcal | 129 kcal |
| Protein | 5 g | 1.4 g |
| Fat | 35.2 g | 10 g |
| saturated | 30.6 g | 8.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 24.1 g | 6.8 g |
| sugars | 21.7 g | 6.1 g |
| Fibre | 13.6 g | 3.9 g |
| Sodium | 25 mg | 7 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
- 860 g hulled ripe strawberries
- 3 1/4 cups shredded fresh coconut or unsweetened flaked coconut
- 3 1/4 cups coconut juice or water
- 13 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Use strawberries that are properly red through to the centre. A pale-shouldered berry is mostly water and acid, and with only four ingredients here there is nothing to hide behind.
- Blend the strawberries, coconut, coconut juice and lemon juice until no shreds of coconut remain whole. A surviving shred stays chewy in a cracker that is meant to snap.
- Let the mixture stand for a minute and skim off any foam. Blending whips air in, and each bubble dries into a weak spot that tears when you lift the sheet.
- Pour it onto a lined tray and tilt the tray until it finds its own level, rather than banging it on the bench. A thin puree finds its own level unaided, and knocking the tray splashes it up the sides where it burns.
- Spread it to a square of about 25.4 cm with a spatula and square the edges. Coconut fat makes this mixture cling to a spatula, so wet the blade.
- Dehydrate at 52 °C for 6 hours to set the surface.
- Score the sheet into 2.5 cm squares while it still takes a line cleanly, cutting through to the liner.
- Give it another 6 hours, transferring the sheet onto mesh once it lifts in one piece.
- Break the squares apart only once they are stone cold. Coconut oil is soft at room temperature and firm when cool, so a warm cracker always feels underdone.
- Keep them in a sealed tin and eat them within a fortnight. Coconut fat is what limits these, not the fruit — once they smell soapy rather than sweet, they have gone.
