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Kiwi Chips

We've been a little crazy with the dehydrator, dehydrating anything we can find. Kiwis are one of our latest victims! They are so delicious!

Ingredients:

2 kiwis

Peel the kiwis and slice them as thinly as possible.
Dry them on the dehydrator at 70C overnight or until they are brittle.

The cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli have been taking over our vege patch with their massive leaves and one day my boyfriend said we should juice the leaves because apparently chlorophyll is really good for you. I was a bit skeptic about eating the leaves so I looked it up online and woah!!! I found out you can do all sorts of things with the leaves! You can juice them, cook them or even make chips out of them! I was so excited when I found out, I went home and plucked a couple leaves off each plant to make sure they don't go bare and started to make the first batch. Here I used kale, spinach, broccoli leaves, cauliflower leaves and cabbage leaves.

Ingredients:

broccoli leaves

cabbage leaves

cauliflower leaves

spinach

kale

coconut oil

salt

Pluck any stem out, wash the leaves and pat them dry.
Drizzle some oil and sprinkle the salt on top.
Mix the leaves together and place them in the dehydrator at 35C for about 5 hours or until they get brittle.

Biltong

The main reason we bought the dehydrator is to make biltongs and I am happy to say we've made them! For those of you who don't know, biltong is South African dried beef... a bit like beef jerky but not really. It is delicious and healthy and delicious.

As I mentioned in my last post, we bought 7kg of chuck steak and used a lot of it on biltong. We cut off the fat to make beef fat, a few slices of steak to barbecue, a few chunks of meat for the potjie and the rest to make biltong.

Ingredients:

chuck steak, sliced

rock salt

apple cider vinegar

ground coriander seeds

pepper

all spice

Marinate the meat on a bed of salt and place it in the fridge for about an hour. The longer you leave it the saltier it gets.
Remove the salt off with a knife and brush the vinegar on.
Marinate the meat with the mixed spices and place them on the dehydrator at 35C for 12 hours.

Sweet Potato Chips

There are many ways to make sweet potato chips. You can fry them in coconut oil, bake them in the oven or dehydrate them. Since we have recently acquired a dehydrator, I decided to dry my own sweet potato chips.

Warning: The jar was full to the brim at 9am. By 5pm, the jar was empty.

Ingredients:
1 medium sweet potato
coconut oil
salt

Slice the sweet potato as thinly as possible with a sharp knife. Soak them in cold water for an hour, changing the water after 30 minutes.
Dry the sweet potato and coat the slices lightly with coconut oil.
Place them on the racks in one layer and sprinkle salt over them.
Dehydrate for 12 hours at 70C, rotating the trays every couple hours to ensure that they dry evenly.

We did turn it down to 30C before we went to bed in case the chips burnt.

Dried Herbs

As mentioned last week, we bought a food dehydrator and finally weekend has come around and I was so excited to make my own dried herbs from the garden! They have turned out to be a huge success and I am very happy with them. They were freshly plucked from the vege patch and organic.

Here, I took parsley, basil and oregano from the garden.

Ingredients:

herbs (parsley, basil, oregano, mint etc)

Wash the herbs to make sure all the soil is removed
Pat them dry with a paper towel and place them on the food dehydrator. Make sure the leaves are not on top of each other to ensure they dry out evenly.
Heat them at 35C for 3 hours, rotating the trays every hour.
You can keep them in a sealed bag. I crushed them in a zip lock bag and then put them in jars.

Food Dehydrator

We recently bought a food dehydrator online for $39.95 including shipping! My boyfriend can finally make biltong with it! Once we finally make the first batch, I'll post the recipe online!

p.s. For those of you who don't know, biltong is a South African beef jerky. It's better than beef jerky!

primal cavewife

Kiwi Chips

Vegetable Chips

Biltong

Sweet Potato Chips

Dried Herbs

Food Dehydrator