You can also use an oven but you won’t get the same results. Better flavors and more control over the dehydrating process are achieved with the Nesco FD-75D.<\/p>\n
My Famous Fruit Roll-Up Recipe<\/h2>\n
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Ingredients used:<\/p>\n
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- Punnet of freshly washed strawberries.<\/li>\n
- 2 Mangos, you can use frozen mango if out of season.<\/li>\n
- 1 Peeled and cored apple.<\/li>\n
- 1 Cup of washed blueberries.<\/li>\n
- 1\/2 peeled small lime for color preservation. Lime juice also works well.<\/li>\n
- 1 Tablespoon of Honey, or\u00a0Stevia\/Truvia\/Sugar for added sweetness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Before cooking be sure to wash your hands as well as the fruit as we storing food long term. We need to be extra diligent on contamination issues.<\/em><\/p>\n
Place all ingredients in a blender, we have a Blendtec and its great for smoothies and pureeing\u00a0foods. The finer the better as it will give the roll-up a more even texture when it dries out.<\/p>\n
To make the mixture bind and stick together we need\u00a0Pectin. <\/b>This\u00a0is a\u00a0naturally\u00a0occurring substance (a polyscaccaride) mostly found in berries, and apples. When heated together with sugar, it causes a thick binding agent. If you don’t use berries or apples in your fruit roll-up its best to use another type of citrus fruit to get these binding agents.<\/p>\n
Now pour the mixture into the roll-up trays in the Nesco dehydrator machine. Now, this mini oven comes with 5 trays but it is expandable up to 12 trays for a huge tower. If you have any leftover fruit smoothie solution you can place it in the fridge for a maximum of 24 hours. It will need a good mix before using again as it will separate.<\/p>\n
I like to set the temperature for on the lowest setting you can in the oven 115 deg F for 8-12 hours regularly checking the solution. Once the roll-up is set and non-tacky, its time to cool and remove the fruit leather.<\/p>\n
If your oven temperature won’t go this low you may have to regularly keep checking your fruit roll-up solution to make sure it doesn’t burn around the edges. Don’t worry about the change in color this is normal.<\/p>\n
Removing Roll-up from the oven<\/h3>\n
Carefully remove the roll-ups from the oven or the dehydrator and place them on the baking paper cut to size and start to roll them up. This way the baking paper will be between\u00a0the fruit roll-ups and will easily\u00a0be unrolled when its time to eat.<\/p>\n
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Apple and peach flavor fruit leather fresh out of the oven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n An added extra step is to sprinkle some caster sugar on the roll-up if you would like a very sweet treat.<\/p>\n
Now is a great time to use up any leftover fruit roll-up solution. Remove it from the fridge and blend it up again. This way it will get a good mix because it will separate in the fridge.<\/p>\n
Continue the baking process until all of the fruit roll-up mixtures are all used up. Or just pour it into a glass with a few ice cubes and enjoy a fresh cool fruit smoothie.<\/p>\n
More Homemade Fruit Leather Recipes<\/h2>\n
There are thousands of other combinations of fruits you can try. Pure applesauce is always a favorite with our\u00a0family. If there is ever some fruit salad left over its gets blended up for the following week’s school snacks.<\/p>\n
If for any reason your blended fruit solution is too dry, I like to add 1\/4 cup of apple juice to help make a liquid smoothie which is perfect for spreading out on the baking tray. Just don’t make it too runny.<\/p>\n
Triple-Berry Mix<\/b>\u00a03 cups of mixed blackberries, strawberries and raspberries, and sugar to taste.<\/p>\n
Tropic Peach-Mango<\/b>\u00a0Blend 1 cup each of chopped fresh or canned peaches and mango. Blend fine 1\/4 cup of coconut.\u00a0 Add some sugar or honey for a sweet blast.<\/p>\n
Wild-Cherry-Vanilla<\/b>\u00a0Blend 3 cups frozen pitted cherries,\u00a0 3 tablespoons sugar, 1\/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1\/4 teaspoon almond extract, a pinch of salt. Blend fine.<\/p>\n
Blueberry-Pear<\/b>\u00a0Blend 2 cups frozen blueberries, 2 chopped pears, and sugar to taste.<\/p>\n
Peanut Butter\u2013Apple<\/b>\u00a0Peel 3\u00a0apples, and add 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, 2 tablespoons flaxseeds, Add some sugar or honey to taste. Adding 1\/2 cup of apple juice will help the blender make a liquid.<\/p>\n
One note is that I don’t recommend putting bananas into your fruit roll-ups. They don’t dehydrate well. My mixtures seem to stay moister for longer. Putting the oven on a hotter setting will brown and dry out the edges of your mixture. You want a nice even cooking temperature. That’s why 115-130 deg F works best over 8 hours or more.<\/em><\/p>\n
Fruit Leather Dehydrator<\/h2>\n
I seem to get better results with a purpose-built fruit leather dehydrator. The Nesco Snackmaster is the perfect mini dehydrator for us. Its powerful has a whole rack of expandable drying trays and will not take up a lot of space.<\/p>\n
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