My wife recently purchased a food dehydrator and was drying some fruit with it. I was wondering how I would go about making these into bars. What would be the best binder? I am going for something like a fruit roll-up.
Thanks,
Rob
My wife uses her dehydrator to make ‘fruit leathers’, which I suppose are similar to a fruit roll-up. She does it by pureeing berries with applesauce, and then just drying the resulting paste on the flat plastic plates that came with the dehydrator. I make my own snack bars, using dried fruit, oats, chopped nuts and such, glued together with a mixture of honey and brown sugar.
As Andrew says you mix applesauce with any pureed fruit, and use the fruit leather tray. It will have fruit rollup consistency. Spread the puree as thin as humanly possible without leaving any gaps. The deyhrator should have instructions in the little pamphlet, if you have it.
Side note but bananas are my favorite in the dehydrator. They get a taffy-like texture. (commercial banana chips are fried).
You have the correct answer to your question (twice in two replies!) but I just wanted to stop in long enough to say pineapple. Fresh pineapple with no sugar added is one of my favorite treats from the dehydrator. SO much better than the sugar crystallized lumps that get sold as dried pineapple.