Dehydrated Strawberry Chips

Name: Dehydrated Strawberry Chips
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 240 min
Total time: 255 min
Ingredients: 1 pound (450 grams) fresh strawberries; 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional)

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Dehydrated strawberry chips are a healthy snack with the concentrated sweetness of fresh strawberries. Pack them in lunchboxes or take them to the office for the mid-afternoon munchies.

They’re proof that not everything in life is immoral, illegal, or fattening!

Dehydrating strawberries is one way to preserve the flavor of summer strawberries when you aren’t in the mood for strawberry jam. Though I might also try to convince you to make jam so you can make these homemade strawberry heart pop tarts.

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Tips and tricks

I only recently discovered how easy it is to hull a strawberry without losing any of the flesh!

Hold the washed strawberry in your non-dominant hand. That’s the left hand for most people (Panel #1, below). With your right hand, pinch the leaves and stem together and pull and twist them off (Panel #2).

four panels showing the steps in hulling strawberries.

Insert the tip of a paring knife into the strawberry (#3). Rotate the strawberry so you are always cutting away from your left hand, and cut a small, cone shaped segment out of the strawberry (#4).

These handy, stackable racks are great for dehydrating strawberries and other fruits in the oven or for cooking bacon. Mmmm bacon.

two panels showing strawberries before and after dehydrating.

It’s unfortunate how the dehydrated strawberries get all shriveled up and sad looking. But the dehydrating process really concentrates the strawberry flavor and gives candy-like sweetness to even the dullest of early season strawberries.

a bowl of dehydrated strawberry chips surrounded by scattered dried strawberries.

FAQs

Can I make these dehydrated strawberries if my oven doesn’t have a dehydrator function?

Strawberries do well in a stand-alone dehydrator, or you can use your oven on a low temperature setting (e.g. 150 degrees F).

Do I have to add lemon juice to the strawberries?

No. Lemon juice is primarily used in dehydrating to prevent browning, and there are some who say that it has antimicrobial properties.

(Side note: please don’t try to sterilize needles with lemon juice. It doesn’t work. I promise.)

What can I do with dehydrated strawberry chips?

Eat them plain. Add them to granola or trail mix. Grind super-dry dried strawberries into powder for meringues or macarons or strawberry milk.

How long can I store dehydrated strawberries?

Depending on how well they’ve been dried, dehydrated strawberries will keep in a cool location for weeks to months. If they are still somewhat soft, they’ll keep only about a week or so.

Related recipes

Check out other uglyducklingbakery snacks, including these dehydrated apples or cherry tomatoes.

Or maybe you are looking for recipes for strawberries and might want to make a smoothie or some strawberry applesauce, a strawberry apple pie, a strawberry gimlet, or heart-shaped strawberry pop tarts?

Or use those strawberries along with all the other summer fruit to make this rainbow fruit tart.

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