Dehydrated Blueberries
The price of dried blueberries in the bulk food aisle, $13.99 per pound, gave me pause. Then I remembered that I had an unused dehydrator sitting on the shelf, so I bought four pounds of fresh blueberries on sale and dried them myself. I think it was definitely worth the work to dry them.
Ingredients
Method
- Wash the blueberries really well and get all the little stems out of them.
- Because blueberry skins are hard, blanch them for three minutes in boiling water instead of pricking each skin with a needle.
- Drain them really well on a paper towel.
- Line the dehydrator pans and spread the blueberries on them.
- Dry according to your dehydrator’s directions until the blueberries are dried. It took much longer than the book said it would, like a day longer.
Nutrition
Notes
Four pounds of fresh blueberries made almost exactly a pound (.9444 pounds) of dried blueberries. I paid less than half what I would have paid for dried blueberries in the bulk aisle, a total savings of $7.21.
The dehydrator was big enough to do all four pounds at once.
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