寶寶零食 -- 果幹卷 （Fruit Leather）

 

 

俊寶很愛吃水果，他最愛的零食是水果軟糖和果幹卷。之前我經常到超市買有機軟糖和果幹卷給他吃，有機的軟糖和果幹卷不便宜，含糖量又太高，我就一直想在家給他做。

 

昨天朋友帶了兩個小朋友來我們家玩，我準備了一大盆的水果，小孩子們食量不大，剩下不少。晚上我也不想再吃水果了，就在睡前和俊寶一起把水果都丟到攪拌機攪拌好，然後丟到烤箱裏低溫烘幹。

 

第二天一大早就有了這款好吃又好看的果幹卷啦！

 

My son A loves fruits. His favourite snacks is fruit leather or Fruit snacks. I used to buy organic fruit snacks from the store. He goes through them so fast that it got me worried that he will be fructose overdose sometimes.

 

Some friends came home yesterday with their kids yesterday, I made a big fruit bowl for the kids and was left with about 1/3 of it. Since it was close to bedtime and none of us want more fruit. I blended them into a thick paste and place it into the oven to bake at low temperature. 

 

We have got ourselves fruit leather in the morning! 

 

 

材料:

2 大杯 蘋果丁

3 大杯 西瓜丁

1 大杯 梨子丁

1 大杯 桃子丁

1 大杯 藍莓

1 大勺 楓糖漿/蜜糖

1 大勺 青檸/檸檬汁

 

Ingredients:

2 cups of apple

3 cups of watermelon

1 cup of pear

1 cup of peach

1 cup of blueberries

1 tbsp of maple syrup/honey

2 tbsp of Tart cherry juice     or   1 tbsp of Lime/Lemon Juice

 

注: 材料裏列出來的是我昨晚用的水果，其實什麽水果都可以用來做這個果幹卷，家裏有啥就用啥啦！

 

Note: These are the fruits I used to make mine because that is what I have at home, you can really use any fruits of your choice, anything you have at home.

 

 

 

1. 把水果洗淨削皮切塊。如果你用的是有機水果，如蘋果，梨子等可以不削皮增加食物纖維。

2. 把切好的水果和青檸/檸檬汁，楓糖漿/蜜糖一起放到攪拌機裏攪拌成糊狀。攪拌好的果糊應該是濃稠不流動狀的，如果你的果糊含水量高，比較稀的話，可以加1大勺的奇亞籽粉增稠，攪拌時記得不要加水。

3. 把果糊倒入鋪有矽膠墊的烤盤。把烤盤在桌上輕輕敲敲讓果糊攤勻。你也可以拿個抹刀把果糊抹平，果糊的厚度應該在大約2毫米左右。食譜裏的水果可以做出三盤15x10寸烤盤的果幹。

4. 把烤盤放到烤箱裏，烤箱開最低溫。我的烤箱最低溫是170華氏度 （75攝氏度），把果糊低溫烘焙6-6.5個小時至烘幹為止。我睡前把烤箱設置好，睡醒時果幹就已經烘幹冷卻了。

注：如果你家有風幹機，你也可以用風幹機來風幹哦！

5. 輕輕地把烘幹的果幹從矽膠墊上剝下，鋪在烘焙紙上，剪成一寸寬的長條，卷起即可。

注: 其實不墊烘焙紙也可以啦，直接卷起來就好了。我隻是覺得卷了烘焙紙比較好看，也比較好剝開吃。

 

1. Cut all the fruits into big chunk, I preferred mine peel off the skin, if you are using organic fruits and like to incorporate more fibre, you can keep the skin on.

 

2. Place all the fruits in blender/food processor with maple syrup and tart cherry juice/lime/lemon juice. Blend into a thick paste, it should be thick and not runny, if your fruit paste is too runny, you can add some pectin or chia seed powder to it to thickened it. DO NOT add water to blend the fruits.

 

Note: I added tart cherry juice in mine as it has natural melatonin and encourages better sleeps at night, which A will need, he is still waking up multiple times some nights. You don't have to add that to yours, it is not mandatory.

 

3. Place a silicon mat over a baking tray and pour the fruit paste over it, give it a good shake or knock the tray lightly over the counter to even the paste out, you can also spread it using a spatula. Your paste should be around 2mm in thickness. The quantity above gave me 3 trays of 15L x 10W baking pans.

 

4. Place the trays in the oven and turn the oven on to the lowest temperature your oven setting allows (Mine is 170 F). Bake/dehydrate it for 6-6.5 hours. I put mine in before bed and woke up to completely dry and cooled sheets.

 

Note：If you have a dehydrator, you can also use it to dry the leather.

 

5.Peel the leathers off the silicon mats, it should be very easy. Place the leathers onto parchment papers, cut into 1 inch strips and roll it up. 

 

Note: You don't really need to place parchment paper underneath the leathers.

 

做好的果幹應該可以在室溫下收藏3-4天，冷藏的話時間可以更長。

The leathers should be able to be stored at room temperature for 3-4 days and about 1 week in the fridge.
 

 

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