Dehydrate Apples in Air fryer
You do not have to wait for hours to dehydrate apples. Let us dehydrate apples in an air fryer for a quick and healthy snack. You can either make air fryer apple chips or regular dehydrated apples in a matter of minutes.
Equipment
- air fryer
- Mandoline Slicer
Ingredients
- 4 apples
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Instructions
Step 1 Cutting the apple rounds
- Choose the sweeter variety of apples and wash them nicely. Then, dry them with a kitchen towel.
- Now, slice 2 apples into ⅛-inch thin slices, using a mandoline slicer.
- Alternately you can also cut the apple into halves and make it into thin slices.
- Speed up the process and do not let the sliced apples sit outside the air fryer for too long, to prevent oxidation which causes browning.
- Sprinkle the ground cinnamon on the sliced apples.
Step 2 Air fry the apple slices or rounds
- Pull out the basket of the air fryer and spread the apple slices.
- Place a pot pan stand (or something similar)on the apples to prevent them from flying around in the air fryer basket.
- Set the air fryer temperature to 300 0F and let them air fry for 20-25 minutes.
- After every 6-7 minutes, pull out the air fryer basket, flip, and switch places. The apple slices getting brown at the edges of the basket should be moved towards the center and the center ones to the edges of the basket. This ensures even dehydration of all slices.
- Now, repeat the process with the remaining two apples.
Notes
- It is best to choose the sweeter apple varieties over a tart or sour apples. Keeping that in view, I like to use Gala. You can also use Macintosh, Fuji, Honeycrisp, red, or golden delicious.
- Though it is not necessary to remove the core, if you want, use an apple corer or a melon baller.
- Slice them into ⅛-inch thin slices, using a slicer. Slice thinner if you want to make apple chips.
- You can also cut the apple into halves and make it into thin slices.
- Avoid soaking the apple slices in salt or lime water. It alters the taste of the apple chips. Make them mildly sour or salted depending on what you used. Secondly, they further hydrate the apple slices. I find this step counterproductive. It makes the apples moister. Hence, they take longer to dehydrate.
- Slices of about two apples can be dehydrated in one batch in an 8qt air fryer.
- Do not overcrowd the air fryer basket with all the apple slices. I suggest you work in batches. First work on 2 apples, slice and put them in the air fryer basket. And when they are nearly done, then start slicing the remaining two apples. This will prevent them from browning.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition
Calories: 116kcal
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