How to make jerky apples at home?

At the end of summer, it's time to harvest apples. To preserve as much fruit as possible, they make different compotes, jams and jams. However, not every hostess agrees to stand at the stove for hours to bring them to the desired consistency. Therefore, many of them increasingly prefer a simpler and less costly way of harvesting. After reading today's publication, you will learn how to make jerky apples at home.

Tips for preparing the fruit

It's not a secret that there are a lot of water in the apples. It accounts for about 90%. During the drying process, the excess liquid gradually evaporates, as a result of which only vitamins and valuable dietary fibers remain in the fruits. But to get the ideal dried apples, you need to use exceptionally high quality raw materials.

For such purposes, it is advisable to use fruits grown in their own garden. Those who do not have such an opportunity, you need to carefully choose the fruits that lie on the market stalls. It is not worth buying unripened, rotten specimens that are rotten.

The selected fruit is thoroughly washed in cool running water. So that during the cutting process you get approximately the same lobules, apples must be sorted by size. After this, it is necessary to carefully consider the fruits and get rid of the corrupted and rotten specimens. They can not be used because they can provoke a fermentation process.

Having finished the sorting, you can start removing the core and chopping the fruits. To make jerky apples, they cut into thin slices, the thickness of which is 3-7 millimeters. To preserve the fruits of their original color, they are recommended to soak in salt water or dip for a couple of seconds in boiling water.

Option one

To prepare the fruits according to this recipe, you need to stock up all the ingredients in advance. You should have at your disposal:

• A kilo of ripe apples.
• 380 milliliters of filtered water.
• 750-800 grams of granulated sugar.

In the beginning, the fruits should be taken up. To prepare tasty and useful dried apples, they are washed, peeled, freed from the core and cut into large pieces. The prepared fruit is put in a deep bowl, covered with 200 grams of sugar and left for sixteen hours at room temperature.

After this time, juice is drained from them and again the same amount of sweet component is added. After another sixteen hours, juice is drained from them and combined with a hot syrup, made from water and the remains of sugar. All this is covered with a lid and left for ten minutes. After that, the syrup is drained, and the fruit slices are transferred to a baking sheet and sent for half an hour to an oven heated to 85 degrees. Then the temperature is lowered to 70 ^° C and the fruit is allowed to stand for 40 minutes twice. After that, they are left for five hours at 30 degrees. At the final stage, almost finished product is left for three days at room temperature.

Dried apples with cinnamon

To prepare this fragrant delicacy, you need to stock up all the ingredients in advance. In this case, in your pantry should be present:

• A kilo of ripe apples.
• A tablespoon of cinnamon.
• 300 grams of sugar.
• A teaspoon of citric acid.

For the preparation of dried apples it is desirable to use sweet or sour-sweet varieties. Pre-washed, peeled and freed from the core, the fruit is cut into thin slices, densely laid on a baking sheet and sprinkled with citric acid, cinnamon and sugar.

All this is sent to the oven, heated to two hundred degrees, and held for 25 minutes. After this time, the baking sheet is removed from the oven, and its contents are carefully transferred to parchment paper, sprinkled with a small amount of sugar, and left for three days. The finished fruit is transferred to a dry, clean container and stored at room temperature.

Dried apples in the electric dryer

The use of this device allows you to quickly and accurately harvest fruits for the winter. And it will happen almost without your intervention. Before you place apples in the appliance, they are washed, freed from the core and cut into not too thick slices. Prepared in this way, the fruit is carefully laid out in one layer on the pallet electric dryer and sent to the device.

It is important to ensure that the temperature does not exceed 55 degrees. The apples are left to dry for seven hours. After that, the dryer is disconnected from the mains and the readyness of the fruit is checked. If everything is in order, then they are placed in pre-prepared containers and sent for further storage.

How to store the finished product?

That you made jerky apples did not deteriorate ahead of time, they need to be placed in a container that is good for air. For these purposes, you can use cardboard boxes or tissue bags. You can not allow the stagnation of air in the container with the prepared fruit.

Also it is undesirable to put boxes with dried apricots in a room with a high level of humidity. This can cause the appearance of fungus and other pests. The right conditions allow you to keep the finished product for several months.