We just dehydrated our first batch of mushrooms and apples.
The shiitake mushroom logs won’t fruit in the colder weather, so now is the time to save them for winter soups and stir frys.
The apples were beginning to spoil rather quickly, so we thought that dehydrating them for fruit-leather-like snacks would be fun.
Some of the apple are going bad…
The apples and the mushrooms were sliced about 1/4 inch thick or smaller and laid out on the dehydrator trays. The apples were soaked in a Vitamin C water solution to lock in the nutrients that are often lost during dehydrating and to keep them from turning brown too quickly. They were dehydrated for about 14 hours at 135 degrees.
Soaking apple slices.
The combined smell of the dehydrating apples and mushrooms was a bit funky, but the finished product looks great. I can’t wait to try the mushrooms this winter!
Ready to go in the dehydrator!
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