Dried watermelon made easy!

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Dried watermelon made easy!

Ingredients

Watermelon

Cooking method

  • When I treat guests to dried watermelon, it is not known what surprises them more: the extraordinary taste or the phrase "dried watermelon" itself. To the uninitiated, the process sounds almost like "dried water"
  • I take a watermelon, a kilogram so for 5-6. This is exactly what I have on ten Ezidri trays
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • I cut into slices no more than 5 mm thick. If the watermelon with dense pulp does not crumble, then it turns out to be cut and thinner.
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • The seeds are easily removed with the tip of a knife. Simply brushed off both sides of the slice. I put it on mesh pallets.
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • I dry on the Medium mode - 50-55 degrees for almost a day (and what to do, drying the "water" is not a quick process)
  • In a day, you're done!
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • I remove the plates from the grid, pack them in bags or containers and go to the refrigerator. Not in the freezer, just in the refrigerator. Watermelon sugar caramelizes at this temperature, watermelon slices become crispy, do not stick together.
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • And try the coffee with watermelon:
  • Dried watermelon made easy!
  • Harmony of aromas and tastes!

Cooking program:

dryer Ezidri, Medium program

Note

The fruit of a watermelon - a false berry - is the largest in the plant kingdom. The juicy pulp of watermelon contains a lot of easily digestible sugars, vitamins B1, B2, B3, PP, C, folic acid, carotene. Mineral composition of fruits - salts of iron, calcium, sodium, magnesium, phosphorus. Since ancient times, honey-merdek, jam, refined molasses, wine, marshmallows, candied fruits have been prepared from watermelons. And in winter, unripe salted watermelons were considered one of the most exquisite delicacies on the festive table.






Watermelons are the fruits of a vegetable annual herb with a creeping stem, long-petiolate pinnately dissected leaves, and single yellow flowers. Fruit - pumpkin weighing up to 16 kg of spherical, oval, flattened or cylindrical shape; consists of smooth bark (color from white to dark green with a pattern in the form of a net, stripes, spots), pulp (pink, red, crimson) and numerous seeds.

Homeland - South Africa. The culture of watermelon is widespread in the USA, Japan, China, India, in the countries of South-Eastern Europe; in the former USSR, watermelons are grown in the Lower Volga region, in the south of Ukraine, in Moldova, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia.

Watermelons are a valuable dietary product with tender, brittle, sweet pulp, which contains 89.5% water, up to 11% sugars (mainly fructose), folic acid, vitamins C, B, carotene, have a low energy value (in 100 g of watermelon pulp 38 kcal).

Watermelons are used in fresh (as a dessert) and salted (small) form, for boiling honey (nardek), making candied fruits, and jam. The best taste is for watermelons that are fully ripened on melons (their taste does not improve when ripened in a lying place, but rather worsens).

Early watermelons ripen in July, late ones in September. The ripeness of a watermelon can be determined by a dried stalk, as well as by the sound that occurs when lightly tapping with a bent finger on the fruit (in unripe watermelons, the sound is dull, in mature watermelons, sonorous). Fruits of some late varieties (Melitopolsky 60, Melitopolsky 142) at temperatures from 3 ° to 5 ° C can be stored on shelves (periodically turning over to prevent bedsores from forming) until January.

Ipatiya
Stunned!
sweetka
And, as they say in Odessa "well, first of all, it's beautiful ..."
kil
Quote: Ipatiya

Stunned!
Quote: sweetka

And, as they say in Odessa "well, first of all, it's beautiful ..."
+1, I will definitely do it, but I'll wait for sweet watermelons, otherwise I don't want to dry the water without sugar.And the color in general can be killed.
Vio
Do not kill by color)
This is most likely the cost of the camera. And we all have different monitors. The color of a dried watermelon, as it should be, is more muted than a fresh one. But the taste is much brighter
Admin

A beautiful watermelon solution! Thanks for the idea!

Yes, it is very difficult to catch the red color with a camera to make it look natural, it is almost never possible to correctly convey the color that it actually is - I was convinced of this myself
Mirabel
TatyanaBut comment!
And I thought that I didn't really need a dryer, since we don't have a summer cottage and a fruit and berry blockage.
And why did you chop the watermelon so beautifully?
Crochet
I heard about dried watermelons, from our Tuska- Scarecrows, but I saw it for the first time !!!

Alas, it's not destiny to try ...

I never got a dryer ...

In the oven, unless you try to dry ...
Admin
Vika, the watermelon is well cut, so you can cut it carefully with a knife or a burner grater - it will turn out
Admin
Quote: Krosh


I never got a dryer ...

Eh, direct destiny for you to run behind the dryer And you will have fruit and vegetable happiness and continuous taste tests
Crochet
Quote: Admin

Eh, direct destiny for you to run after the dryer

If I knew where, just now I would have rushed away ...
ang-kay
Vio, what a handsome! How about the taste? I've got a dryer, but somehow the marshmallow didn't work out, only the pears wilted. What kind of watermelon is it?
Admin
Quote: Krosh

If I knew where, just now I would have rushed away ...

Inna, what is the problem? Where to order or where is that? Whisper
Order information here in Moscow - at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Pavilion 70 (telf (495) 649-44-67)
Tsakhes
Svetka,
Not, well, let's just say, it's homemade and inexpensive
bukabuza
Vio, how interesting, it will be necessary to try. And you didn’t try to dry the melon, it’s also very tasty, it’s only in consistency it turns out to be viscous like a marshmallow.
Tsakhes
bukabuza, Hi
The melon is dried and also braids are weaved, it happened in Central Asia to treat yourself.
Cut into strips, and at some stage, braid
I think so
Admin
Quote: bukabuza

And you didn’t try to dry the melon, it’s also very tasty, it’s only in consistency it turns out to be viscous like a marshmallow.

All recipes are here https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&board=174.0 including melon https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=146350.0 and marshmallow with melon https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=390443.0
bukabuza
Admin, thank you. My dryer will come, so I will take a walk now.
Wild cat
I haven't poisoned fresh Watermelons yet ... And you dry them!
Aaaaa!
Nene ... I don't need dryers .. No, no, no ... Keep away from me! Chur!
Mirabel
Wild catDon't you have them yet? even they have been imported to us for a long time from hot countries
Scarecrow
Quote: Krosh

I heard about dried watermelons, from our Tuska- Scarecrows, but I saw it for the first time !!!

Alas, it's not destiny to try ...

I never got a dryer ...

In the oven, unless you try to dry ...

Oh, you just like that, huh ?!))) there Chucha fotu laid out along with statements on dried watermelon!))))
Vio
Quote: Mirabel
And why did you chop the watermelon so beautifully?
I cut it with a wide sharp knife, before on a large flat plate, now on a chopping board with sides - the juice does not spill. Convenient and fast.

Quote: ang-kay
How about the taste? What kind of watermelon is it?
It turns out very sweet, even sugary-sweet for my taste (that's why I like it with bitter coffee), and the aftertaste aroma is watermelon. Taste is even harder to describe than the red color in a photograph

Quote: bukabuza
And you didn’t try to dry the melon, it’s also very tasty, it’s only in consistency it turns out to be viscous like a marshmallow.
I also dried melon with marshmallow ("Marble marshmallow" - https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...on=com_smf&topic=390443.0) and slices like a watermelon. Also very, very sweet. And if you dry it a little longer and store it in a cool place (in the refrigerator), melon plates turn out to be hard and brittle (like all dried fruits, dried berries, in which there are a lot of sugars). At room temperature, they soften again.
bukabuza
Vio, Can you store them in the freezer? Or whatever is better, so that you can eat in winter.
Vio
Of course, you can also freeze it. Only in any case, dry well from the very beginning so that the plates can be easily removed from the pallet and do not stick to your hands and do not stick to each other. Then they will not become limp after the freezer.
Crochet
Quote: Scarecrow
there Chucha fotu laid out

How ...

Ran on blister look !!!
Mirabel
Vio, Melon.so that it is not crunchy and brittle, it must be dried, it seems to me. This is exactly what it was in Uzbekistan. Delicious!
Probably, there is no way to do it in the dryer .. although such craftsmen have gathered here!
Vio
If the melon (and watermelon) is stored at room temperature, it will not be crunchy and brittle. I put it in the refrigerator only for storage so that the pieces don't stick together - they "freeze like candy". And when you put it on a plate for food, they return to their soft state.
In Uzbekistan, as I understand it, drying is the same drying, only in natural conditions - sun (temperature) and breeze. What we have in the dryer (instead of the sun - "fiery motor")
Mirabel
VioI don't think the canneries were sun-dried. But, since the dryer copes with this, this is another item to buy it
Vio
Mirabel, On this forum there are many recipes for dried, not dried fruits.
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...on=com_smf&topic=139116.0
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...on=com_smf&topic=145258.0
There is a different technology for preparing food, more difficult than just throwing the slices into the dryer. But the product is different.
What dried melon from Uzbekistan looks like more can only be understood by those who have tried it
But even when dried, the prepared fruits end up in the dryer anyway (so the "item to buy" remains)
Mirabel
Vio, Yes. you're right! after all, tomatoes are dried. while I'm buying in the store.
What kind of dryer do you have? I haven’t made my choice yet.
Admin

Melons in accordance with GOST were dried and still dried as "jerky" with the addition of sugar - the principle is similar to that of my zucchini https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=139371.0.
If I really need to, I scan the dried melon recipe.

On the subject of drying and drying melons, we turn to melon topics https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=146350.0 , here I will rub all your thoughts, if you don’t obey
Mirabel
Tatyana,: sorry: No more, I forgot. that this is a topic only about drying watermelons.
Admin
Quote: Mirabel

Tatyana,: sorry: No more, I forgot. that this is a topic only about drying watermelons.

Crochet
Quote: Admin

Order information here in Moscow - at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Pavilion 70 (telf (495) 649-44-67)

By the way, I called this phone, it turns out that they are no longer at VDNKh, but at a completely different address ...

Well, that's me, just in case ...

You never know who will need information ...

I've already lathered myself at VDNKh ...

And the address has changed ...
afnsvjul
Wow, well, well, I must definitely try. Especially, probably, it is not suitable for disposal. sweet watermelons. Sometimes you come across such that you seem to try it, but it is not very sweet, but when it dries up, it will be !!!
Tsakhes
Yulia,
And as an application option - nardek ?
Admin
Quote: Krosh

By the way, I called this phone, it turns out that they are no longer at VDNKh, but at a completely different address ...

And the address has changed ...

And what are we keeping secret?
Come on in clear text, all addresses, passwords, attendances, phones - right into the topic https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=139314.0 or me in a personal, I will insert where necessary
Lana_65
Quote: Tsakhes
And as a variant of application - nardek?
Not an option for cooking nardek (otherwise - watermelon honey), very ripe watermelons are needed. And preferably not one. Otherwise, there will be a lot of fuss, and the output of the finished product is minimal. The game is not worth the candle
blusha
Tell me girls, what else can you do with dried watermelon besides coffee? Maybe compotes or not?
Admin

Of course it is possible! But why spoil such a product - it's better to use it as a dessert, with tea, coffee, just enjoy sitting on the sofa instead of purchased chips
Crochet
Tanechka, have you personally tasted dried watermelon?

Can't decide where to start: watermelon or melon?
Admin

No, I have not tried Watermelon sweet in moderation, melon is very sweet, I ate it - very sweet, not for me
Olga
Inna, I've tried it, it's delicious. But start with melon)))
blusha
Quote: Admin

Of course it is possible! But why spoil such a product - it's better to use it as a dessert, with tea, coffee, just enjoy sitting on the sofa instead of purchased chips
How many times have we bought a watermelon, only half is eaten, the second always disappeared (before buying a dryer). So the last time it happened: half of the watermelon was eaten, and half was dried. My homemade did not like dry watermelon. So I'm wondering what you can bungle with him in winter)))
Admin
You can try adding it to baked goods, to a cake, pie, or to granola together with other dried fruits, make Granola, it will mix with honey and the taste will improve
kil
And I liked the dry watermelon.
Crochet
Quote: kil

And I liked the dry watermelon.

And me !!!
Isida
I tried dried both melon and watermelon. melon liked all my home. yes, those who hate melon. but with a watermelon!?!? Yes, they did not expect at all, no one liked it. terribly sweet (I didn't expect it myself and dries longer)
a matter of taste. each person individually.
kil
Isida, yes I agree, I now dry not sweet watermelons, they turn out to be tastier, but I like the aroma and taste, I especially think it will be nice in winter, when it's snow and cold to drink tea with watermelon. I've already dried 4 watermelons for myself, because mine didn't like it either. Tomorrow I'll buy a couple more while they are cheap in Auchan and dry them.
lana light
And I liked the dried watermelon - it is very sweet and you can drink a large mug of tea with just one bite! Savings however!
I cut it arbitrarily into pieces, with a knife. I did not choose seeds, but they do not particularly interfere with drying
Dried watermelon made easy!
I dried it - yes, for a very long time ... But this is intermittent, because in the morning I will look - it seems to have dried up, I will turn it off, leave it in the dryer until the evening to "remove residual moisture" ... In the evening I came - well, right now, I'll transfer it to I will put the container and apples to dry. Aha, dreaming! After cooling, he did not get rid of residual moisture, but pulled on new moisture in a day! But I didn't understand it right away, I thought that in the morning I saw that the watermelon had dried up Again I put it to dry for the night, in the morning the same picture. Only on the third morning it came!
It was just a day off, I checked that the watermelon was dry again, allowed it to cool for half an hour and immediately put it in a jar with a tight lid. Now everything is ok!
Dried watermelon made easy!
And I made a melon too. Dried to hardness, I was already worried that I had overdried. But the melon stood for a couple of days and became flexible! In the photo melon with raisins
Dried watermelon made easy!

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