How to make your own healthy fruit leather

Fruit leather is a great snack for at home or when on the road. It's healthy and can be made entirely of fruit or vegetables. No need to add any sugar or flavours. These are great for saving a few dollars and stocking the kid's lunchboxes.

Here's a method to make your own and keep them stored for when you need them. 

Peel your fruit (or vegetables)

Choose which combination of fruit or veggies you'd like in your fruit leather. Peel them and eat the peels or feed them to your worm farm or pets, ours go to the chickens. 

Blend and blend

Remove all of the tough pith and seeds and put it all into the blender. If you're using soft mushy fruit like bananas, leave those till later. 

Squeeze the juice

Squeeze all of the juice out by pouring the mix into a cheesecloth and squeezing into a jug or bowl. Keep the fruit pulp, this is what we'll use. The juice is for drinking, bottle it up. 

Spread onto a tray

Spread the pulp onto baking paper in an oven tray. Get it down to a few mm in thickness.

Bake and cut it up

Bake this in the oven on a low heat around 110C or 230F for a couple of hours. Thickness, sugar and moisture content etc will change the time you need to bake. Grab your scissors and cut it up into strips for easy eating. 

Store it for later

Store your fruit leather strips into a jar with a lid for later. Some people sprinkle these with sugar, I prefer them without. Enjoy with friends!

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