Dehydrate your fruits and vegetables with the solar dryer!

☀️ Why dehydrate?

✅ Make healthy and delicious snacks, easy to take and eat, ideal for children

✅ Preserve the nutritional values ​​of your food

✅ Preserve food for longer in an environmentally friendly way (no fridge electricity costs)

✅ Stock up on fruits and vegetables from the garden, to consume them all year round

☀️ Fruits to dehydrate :

It is also possible to dehydrate fruit-based preparations to obtain fruit leathers . These are raw fruit jellies with no added sugar.

• Apple
• Strawberry
• Fig
• Apricot
• Plum
• Kiwi
• Khaki
• Citrus
• Figs
• Pineapple
• Raspberry
• Mango
• Cherry
• Coco...

☀️ Vegetables to dehydrate to make delicious salty chips:

(by bathing them in flavored oil before leaving them to dehydrate)

• Zucchini
• Tomato
• Carrot
• Beet
• Yam
• Turnip
• Mushroom
• Parsnip...

These lists are not exhaustive, have fun experimenting with new solar recipes! 😋

Preparation :

1. To begin, preheat your solar dryer by installing it facing the sun.

2. Wash your fruits or vegetables, preferably from the garden, organic or untreated. No need to peel them!

3. Using a mandolin or kitchen knife, cut thin slices of fruit or vegetables. To ensure dehydration is as quick as possible, try not to make slices more than 4mm thick! For the vegetable chips, soak them quickly in the flavored oil before leaving them to dehydrate.

4. Arrange the slices without overlapping them on parchment paper so that they do not stick to the shelf grids. Leave 2cm free around the edge of the paper so that air can circulate. When the top side is dry, remove the parchment paper and turn the rounds over.

5. Let the fruits or vegetables dehydrate in the solar dryer. Don't forget to reorient the dehydrator several times during the day (approximately every 4 hours) in order to maintain a sufficient temperature.

The dehydration time varies depending on the thickness of the slices and the nature of the food, it takes around 2 to 3 days!

Enjoy 🤤