Dried Pineapple: One Ingredient, Nature's Candy

Sweet, chewy, tangy dried fruit candies made from one ingredient. Fresh pineapple, completely transformed. Mine just happens to be pink.

You don't need a dehydrator - just an oven, a low temp, and 8 hours of patience.

Pineapple plus low and slow heat equals natural candy. Swap the pineapple for any fruit you like - apples, strawberries, peaches. Every fruit sits somewhere on the sweet-tart spectrum, so choose accordingly.

Spring strawberries, summer pineapple and peaches, fall apples and pears, winter blood oranges - nature's candy, all year long.

And if your fruit's on the tart side, it's a just a spoonful of sugar fix.

Storage - they'll keep up to a month stored in an airtight container.

Any pineapple works - classic yellow or pink, the fruit engineered to be pretty.

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Oven Dried Pineapple

Sweet, chewy, tangy dried fruit candies made from one ingredient. Fresh pineapple, completely transformed. Low oven, 8 hours — no dehydrator needed.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time8 hours hrs

Course: Snack

Cuisine: Californian

Servings: 6

Author: Daniela Gerson

Ingredients

• 1 pineapple

Instructions

• To slice the pineapple into rounds, remove the top, bottom, and rind, then cut into thin horizontal rounds, about ¼ - ½ inch thick, and core.
• Lay rings single layer on a large baking sheet topped with a wire rack, parchment paper or a baking mat.
• Dry in 175°F oven for 8 hours, flipping every couple of hours.
• Store dried pineapple in airtight container, up to 1 month.

If ya try this recipe, I'd love to hear about it - leave a comment below and let me know, and tag me on IG, @danielagerson, so I can see too.

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