How to dry bananas?

Any fruit is useful, so you need to try to eat them in sufficient quantities.Bananas are available almost all year round, but the price for them out of season can reach significant heights, and therefore you need to be able to preserve this fruit in any form for use in food. The easiest and most effective way is drying, with which you can save all the properties of the product and increase its shelf life. The correct procedure will ensure optimum taste and attractive appearance.

The process of drying bananas is not too difficult, the main thing is to approach this task correctly. The most important component is the selection of fruits that will be dried. For the procedure fit any fruit in size and variety, however, it is important that they are ripe, and the skin does not have a single defect. It is necessary to carefully examine the fruit for the presence of brown spots, dents, crushed areas. If the fruit is selected correctly, the result of drying will be correct.

To prepare bananas, you do not need to do anything complicated, enough of the following activities.

1. Rinsing bananas under warm running water to remove all microorganisms. Drying the fruit will occur without the peel, but it must also be washed. After this procedure, it is important to wait until the fruits are completely dry, and only after that to continue preparation.
2. Cutting banana slices. There is a variant of drying the fruit completely, but most often it is recommended to cut it. It is best to cut the banana into equal pieces so that it is evenly, and most importantly, dried at the same time. Some recommend cutting directly into the peel to make slices the same.
3. Conduct soaking bananas in an acidic solution. In order to preserve the appearance of the fruit and leave it unchanged, it is necessary to dip bananas in lemon juice diluted with water for half a minute. This solution is made in the ratio 1: 2. When time is up, the fruit is placed in a colander and allowed to drain, and then dried.

The drying procedure allows you to get rid of most of the moisture in fruits, so that they become less in volume and weight, but their caloric content increases significantly. If fresh bananas have 89 calories, then dried - 345.

To dry bananas at home, you need to know exactly how to do it. It is not enough to chop the fruit, it is necessary to know the conditions of the procedure, the necessary temperature and the duration of its effect. Houses do not always have specialized devices that will make drying quick and correct, because it is worth considering all possible options. To dry the fruit can be in different ways:

• in the dryer;
• in the microwave;
• in the oven;
• in the sun.

Thanks to the use of electric dryers, it is possible not only to dry the fruits, but also to dry them. The advantage of this machine will be the ability to process a large number of fruits at a time, while not spending extra electricity, but after carrying out the process quickly enough and with the correct result. To fully load the dryer you need from two to seven kilograms of bananas, as well as icing sugar, which is designed to make the fruit taste incredibly pleasant.

The correct procedure involves cutting the fruit into slices and evenly distributing them in a single layer with a small gap between them so that they do not stick together. The optimum temperature for the process is 60-70 degrees, and in time it takes from 10 to 12 hours. In order to evenly dry all the fruits, it is recommended to change the trays in places every two hours. The end time of the procedure is regulated individually, depending on preferences and the desired final result.

After the procedure, it is also necessary to level the level of moisture in the finished pieces, for which it is necessary to decompose the dried fruits on the same plane and let them stand for an hour or two. This period allows moisture to be evenly distributed in bananas. To properly use the electric drier and prepare dried fruits, you must perform the following steps.

1. Cut the bananas into pieces of the same width and place them on the drier tray. After that, they can be dried in this form or sprinkled with powdered sugar on top for a more pleasant taste.
2. When all fruits are laid on pallets, they are installed in an electric dryer, covered with a lid and the procedure is started. After setting the desired temperature, it remains only to wait the required amount of time for the dehydration process to be completed and the fruits to become dried fruits.

If there is no electric dryer at home, you can use other methods that are available at home.

Each apartment has a stove with an oven, and it does not matter whether it is gas or electric - you can dry bananas in it by making dried fruits out of them. For the procedure, you need to take a few bananas (three large fruits will be enough), powdered sugar and cinnamon at will and your own taste. To get bananas, it is worth adhering to the technology of cooking, which consists in the following.

• Peeling bananas and cutting them into small rings. The optimum width is 3-5 mm.
• The procedure will be carried out on the grid, and not on the baking sheet, because it is necessary to put a sheet of parchment paper on it, which for the best result is repeatedly pierced with a needle. Such a manipulation allows the air to circulate more actively and to ensure a faster dehydration process of the fruit.
• Lay out banana rings on the grid side by side, but so that they do not touch each other.
• As an additional ingredient, you can add powdered sugar, and if desired also mix it with cinnamon. For this you need to use a sieve, so that the sugar is distributed evenly, without lumps. Due to the presence of powder moisture from bananas comes out faster.

• The grate is placed back in the oven, which is already heated to a temperature of 50-70 degrees, and the drying time will be from two to three hours. It is important to leave the oven door slightly open so that the drying takes place more intensively. Subject to the presence of convection in the oven, bananas will be prepared much earlier.

The process of drying bananas using a microwave is the fastest, but it requires constant monitoring of the situation and participation in it. Dried bananas can be powdered with powdered sugar or even cocoa for a more original and pleasant taste. To make one portion of dried fruits from bananas, you must have two ripe fruit and vegetable oil. It is important that it be refined and have no smell. Only five milliliters of oil is required for the above amount of fruit.

The cooking procedure in the microwave is reduced to the following steps.

1. Prepare the fruit, as in any other recipes: cutting them into homogeneous pieces and laying out on a plate for the microwave, which is pre-oiled.
2. The dishes are placed back in the microwave, the time is set at 1 minute, and the power is 750 watts. When time is up, you need to remove the plate, turn over all the pieces and repeat the procedure again. To fully prepare the dried fruit, you need to repeat this operation about five times.
3. When the fruits are almost ready, they are removed from the pot and placed on the grid for further drying, which will last all night. The next day, the resulting dried fruits can be powdered or cocoa powder and eaten.

If you really want to eat dried bananas, then this option is the fastest to prepare, although you still have to wait for the time during which the dried fruits will be completely ready for use.

Not everyone knows how to eat dried bananas and what can be cooked from them. There can be a lot of options for dishes that includes this dried fruit, because it is enough to know at least the basic and most common recipes with it in composition that can be made at home.

By themselves, dried bananas can be eaten as a snack, a snack, which in small quantities will be tasty and healthy. Thanks to the ability to satisfy hunger well, they can be used between breakfast and lunch, as well as lunch and dinner. This dried fruit can be used as an additive to some dishes, most often it is porridge. The use of dried bananas for preparing various desserts and pastries is very common.

The most delicious desserts and sweet dishes, in which you can use dried dried fruits, have such recipes.

• Chocolate with nuts and dried fruit. For its preparation it is necessary to collect all the ingredients: milk chocolate - about 400 grams, various dried fruits, including bananas - about 100-150 grams, nuts of any kind - 50 grams, a spoon of rum, a pinch of black pepper or chili. First you need to melt the existing chocolate mass, which add roasted nuts and chopped dried fruits. All contents are well mixed and placed in a form where parchment paper is pre-lined. The finished mass is left overnight in the refrigerator, and in the morning you can eat ready-made delicious chocolate dessert.

• Puffs with dried bananas. For their preparation are necessary: ​​yeast-free puff pastry, dried bananas, sugar - no more than four tablespoons, 1 yolk and a tablespoon of milk or water. Preparation takes place in several stages, and first you need to roll out the dough and divide it into two equal parts, then grease both with yolk or water. Bananas are cut in long but thin slices and laid out in several rows in length. It is important not to put dried fruits near the edge, as there the dough will be combined with the top layer. With the help of a knife, the puffs are separated from one another, again smeared with an egg on top and sprinkled with sugar. The finished puff is placed on a baking sheet, where parchment paper is already laid.

• Charlotte with fresh and dried bananas. For its preparation you will need: a tablespoon of flour and the same amount of sugar, three eggs, a teaspoon of soda, a handful of dried fruits and a few fresh bananas, a tablespoon of orange zest. To make a charlotte, you need to beat the eggs with sugar until foaming, then add the zest. Flour is introduced into the finished mass by sifting, we also act with soda. Fresh bananas are sliced ​​and placed on the bottom of the pan, where the finished dough is then poured. Dried bananas are placed on top of the charlotte, which makes it possible to create a real banana dessert. Cooking time will be within half an hour at an oven temperature of 180 degrees.

This is not all options for dishes and desserts that can be prepared using dried bananas.The use of dried fruits in food will allow you to get enough of a small amount of food, and therefore, do not gain weight. In addition, it is very useful, and, in addition to the pleasant taste, the body receives obvious benefits. It is not necessary to adhere to generally accepted recipes, you can come up with something unique and unique that can be much tastier than any recipe published on the Internet.

Properly dried bananas, it is possible to eat a high-quality product that will satisfy hunger and take care of the availability of nutrients in the body. Due to the availability of drying technology, this process can be done by everyone, as long as there is a desire to eat right.

To learn how to make dried bananas at home, see the following video.