In this article the technology of preparation of dried fruits and sukhoovoshchy is given in house conditions. Also recommendations about storage and further use of these products are made.
How to prepare suzhoovoshhi
Dried tomatoes and pepper are very popular in hostesses in Europe. And at our restaurants and cafe dried vegetables use often, especially for preparation of dishes of the Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Italian cuisine. Such preparations can make in house conditions and you.
When drying fruits remain better, than at other types of processing. Nutrients, flavoring properties thus remain. They are easy for transporting, they it is easier fresh, well and are long stored.
It is possible to dry practically all fruits and berries, but it is necessary to remove from them moisture as soon as possible.
Before drying it is recommended to carry out a blanshirovka for preservation of color and drying acceleration.
Podvyalivaniye of fruits also accelerates and facilitates process. Such fruits need to be placed in an oven or drying cabinets of artificial drying.
In house conditions solar and air drying on sets with openings of 2-4 mm is possible. Such drying economic, but lasts 5-10 days. Apples and pears can be dried, having strung fruits or their parts on strong threads. Apples should be taken such grades which don’t darken on air, with a thin thin skin. Them cut circles of 5-6 mm the in thickness, place on 3-5 mines in solution of lemon acid (2 úÓ/litre waters) or table salt (1 h. water spoon/litre). A cherry, plum surely scald, dry.
After drying dried fruits pack up in paper packages, store in a dry room, separately from products or substances with a pungent smell.
… in an oven
As in average polose during a time when tomatoes ripen, often there are rains, to dry on the sun vegetables it is possible extremely redko. Therefore offer the technologies, allowing to dry tomatoes though on Far North.
But at first tomatoes and pepper should be prepared. Use only the zdoyorovy, well ripened fruits. Remove from them a fruit stem and sites of a koyozhitsa if on it there are cracks, badly okrayoshenny or obestsvechenyony sites. Cut each fruit on four-six parts, with a spoon remove seeds, strew vegetables with table salt and a mix of dried greens (fennel, a thyme, a basil), leave for 20 minutes.
Then on a metallicheyosky baking sheet postelite parchment, grease it vegetative mayosly and lay pomidory and pepper the cut party down.
At all ispolzujte alyuminiyeyovy ware or foil! The acid containing in tomatoes, at the slightest heating it is very active nachinaet to cooperate with aluminum, and obrazuyushhayasya salt spoils taste of preparation. It is better to take a big plate from tolyosty glass or faience.
Oven warm up to 80 ° and prepare tomatoes of 3 h, pepper of-2 h, having left a cover of an oven priotyokryty. Then perevernite vegetables, slightly splyushhte their shovel and prodolzhajte to dry at 130 °, without forgetting each 2-3 h to overturn. All process will occupy about 12. Long, but it is not troublesome.
From 15-20 kg fresh ovoyoshchy 1 kg suyosheny turns out. Dried up ovoshhi store in a glass jar from the dense kryshyoky: they have a sklonyonost to absorb moisture.
In the winter before an ispolzoyovaniye suxoovoshhi nuzhyono to lower in boiling water for 5 minutes. It is also possible to soak nemnogo tomatoes, then xranit them in oil. For etogo slightly wring out with tomatov superfluous water, put in bank, fill in with olive oil. Tomatoes keep Tayokiye in the refrigerator no more than two weeks.
… in a sauna
And it is possible to dry tomatoes and in saune. For this purpose: svymyty poyomidor to clean a buyomazhny towel vlagu and let’s to fruits lie a little on the sun. Stewed vegetables perenestiv a sauna (temperature 105 °, humidity of 12 %) on the top shelf laid by paper for a batch, also leaves to cool down till the morning.
From 1,3 kg of fresh pomiyodor 64 g vyayoleny, similar on kuragu turn out. Tomatoes skladyvayut in banks and fill in them at once with rastiyotelny oil. It is possible for Predyovaritelno smazat tomatoes white wine vinegar.
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