If your garden is overflowing with strawberries, or you bought way to many berries recently, you should give dehydrated strawberries a try. Not only are they great to snack on, but dehydrated strawberries are a nice addition to oatmeal, granola and dried cereal. You can even toss them into a basic scone mix to liven them up.
Making dehydrated strawberries requires two steps.
- Slice berries 1/4 -inch thick
- Place berries on dehydrator trays and turn the food dehydrator on {about 6 hours}
Seriously. Making dehydrated strawberries is really that simple.
After your berries cool down and firm up a bit, place them in an airtight container away from light {like your pantry}. They should keep for several years, but I highly doubt you’ll be able to resist them that long.
These are the gadgets I used.
Nesco American Harvest Food Dehydrator
Excellante Aluminum Egg Slicer, Square Shape
So has your food dehydrator been running 24/7?
What’s in there?
Jenn says
Thank you for posting this! You made me want a food dehydrator and I got one for my birthday a couple days ago. I can’t wait to break it out tonight and try some banana’s!
Crystal says
Great idea to use an egg slicer to cut the strawberries- the slicing up is always the most tedious part in my mind!
Megan says
I got out of the car after driving 9.5 hours today and put 4 trays of apricots in the dehydrator that I picked at my grandparent’s house. Now I’m trying to decide if I have the energy to make jam too. I don’t think it’s going to happen tonight…
Carol aka bloody frida says
oops I see here what dehydrator you use ! thanks!
Bridget says
I have tried apple slices this week for the first item I ever dehydrated. They tasted delicious, but I am having trouble with them sticking to the trays. What do I need to do?
Mavis says
The only thing I do with my apple slices is dip them in lemon juice. ?
kate says
I let mine go for about 6-7 hours to get really crisp and then stick them in the freeze so they become crispy. They are so delicious. I haven’t added anything to mine and I haven’t had a problem with sticking. You could try a light spray of cooking spray but I don’t know if that would help. Maybe a longer ‘cook’ time?
Mavis says
Ha! I never thought to use cooking spray. That’s a good tip!
Laura says
The oil can go rancid in storage. I would try flipping them over after the top is dry to the touch.
Kenneth says
I’ll have to try that! I dehydrate pears they are delicious!
Gardenpat says
After making your strawberry almond granola a couple weeks ago, I knew I better dehydrate more strawberries this year. On Saturday I bought 3 flats for $6.32 each (79 cents/pound) and got them all dried and vacuum sealed them into Mason jars before the weekend was over!!! My Excalibur dehydrator can hold a whole flat of sliced strawberries at a time!
So easy and so tasty! Saw an ad for dehydrated sliced strawberries in a can and the price was about 4 times what mine have cost me!!! And I can reuse my jars and lids for the vacuum sealing too!!! The only thing better than preserving all this fresh food every year is seeing it being eaten and rotated every year!