Kuraga - Dried apricot, not only bright and life-affirmingly looks on the shelves in winter cold, but also contains a lot of useful substances. Make this orange delicacy can be independently at home, you just need to know the technology and follow it ...
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For drying, only the "cultural" varieties of apricot, "Dick" does not fit. Since dried fruit and so will be dehydrated in the process of heat treatment, the fruits must be mature, sweet, large and fleshy, but not watery. It is also not recommended to use early varieties apricots for drying.
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So, select the whole, intact fruits. My, we divide into two halves and remove the bones. Do not use apricots affected by fruit worms. Even the removal of worms and larvae, you risk the fact that in the future, pests will lead in the Kurage. Also do not rinse the separated halves of the fetus.
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If you wish to get a drying dry color, put the apricot halves into a colander and hold for 10-12 minutes over boiling water. Alternatively, you can boil the saturated syrup and lower the apricots in it for a few minutes. After that, lay out the fruits on a wide dish, allowing the way to drain the syrup.
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Actually, the apricots actually can be in several ways. Use the dryer if you have it. Put the fruit on the dryer grille so that they do not come into contact. Initially, set the temperature of 50 degrees, a little later reduce it to 45. On average, the drying process lasts 10-15 hours. You can check the readiness "on the eye" - the drum should be dry to the touch, without moisture and stickiness.
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You can dry apricots and in the oven. For this, a cotton fabric is laid on the lattice, apricots in one layer. Place the temperature in the oven - 65-70 degrees. For uniform drying, turn the fruits periodically. After they dried a little, put them on the baking sheet, pre-stuck with paper. Apricot is considered a Kuragya when it is dry, but at the same time elastic and does not allocate juice. Usually in the oven it takes 10-12 hours.
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You can prepare a coaragument and an old-good way "outdoors." For the start, the "disassembled" laid out the fruits on the dish or barbell and put in the shadow on the breeze. After several hours of such treatment, fruits are laying out onto a wooden stand and dried in the sun.
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The finished smoke should be pissed into linen bags or wooden containers with covers. It is forbidden to store dried apricot in polyethylene packages.
From 1 kilogram of apricots on average you will receive 200 grams of dried fruit. As well as a portion of health and useful delicacy for a whole year.
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