If your pear harvest is ugly and you don't know where to put them, then use my recipe and cook dried pears. This is an incredibly tasty delicacy that will be loved by both children and adults.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pears are a fruit that is difficult to store for a long time in a cellar, and even more so even in an apartment. For this reason, it is advisable to consume them fresh. Naturally, fruits can be preserved by making a harvest for the winter. But here it should be remembered that when exposed to high temperatures, which a pear is exposed to, many useful properties are lost in it. It's another matter to dry it, and the fruit can be stored for longer, and the nutrients will not evaporate. Since pears are not subjected to strong heat treatment during drying.
The drying technology for pears is the same as for apples and other fruits and berries. At home, you can dry any kind of pear. The main requirement is a thin skin, ripeness, density. Spoiled and overripe fruits are not suitable for this harvest. Such a blank is stored in an apartment for more than a year. In addition, dried pear is considered a dietary product. It is allowed to use it even for people who are obese and diabetic, as well as with diseases of the liver, gallbladder and kidneys. Also, such a blank is perfect for baking all kinds of desserts, muffins and pies, and just dried pears can be used in the morning for breakfast with a cup of coffee.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 235 kcal.
- Servings - Any Amount
- Cooking time - 2-3 hours
Ingredients:
Pears - any quantity
Cooking dried pears:
1. Sort the pears by sorting the spoiled ones. Wash the fruits under running water and pat dry with a paper towel. Remove the core with a special knife.
2. Cut off the ends of the fruit on both sides, and cut the fruit itself into thin rings about 3 mm wide. Although the cutting method can be different: cubes, strips, etc. This will only affect the drying time - the thicker the piece, the longer it will take to dry.
3. Take a wire rack or baking sheet from the oven and place the pear pieces on top of it so that they do not touch each other. Preheat the oven to 100 degrees and send the baking sheet with fruit to dry for 1-2 hours. When doing this, leave the frypot door slightly ajar to allow steam to escape. Flip the pears several times during this process so that they cook evenly on all sides. When all the moisture from the fruit is gone, the slices are halved in size and the fruit becomes brittle, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Refrigerate pears to room temperature and store in a glass jar or paper bag. Do not keep them in a damp room.
See also a video recipe on how to cook dried pears at home.
