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Plum Fruit Leather

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Drying Time1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Kg Plums
  • 10 Nectarines optional-about 1 Kg
  • 2 Peaches optional
  • 1 cup Water

Instructions

  • Wash the plums and pit them. I used nectarine and peach as well, pitting them too.
    Prepare the fruits plums nectarine and peaches
  • Put the fruits in a pot or a saucepan.
    Put the fruits in a pot
  • Turn the heat on. Add water to the fruits to avoid burning. You can close the lid. Stir them from time to time.
    Fruits are cooking
  • Add sugar or salt.
  • Let them cook for 1 hour until they fully soften. Take the pot off the stove.
    Fruits after cooking
  • Crush the fruits using a hand blender or a masher. In this step, the peels are broken down into small pieces and we get a fruit puree.
    Puree in the mixer
  • If the puree is watery, let it simmer on low heat until the extra water is evaporated. If it’s too watery, your fruit leather takes longer to dry and might mold.
    The puree is ready
  • Spread the puree on a tray.
    Plum puree in the oven
  • Leave it in the oven to dry.
    Plum puree in the oven tray
  • After the puree dries up, cut it into strips. Keep it in a sealed glass container.
    Plum Fruit Roll Ups

Notes

  • Use ripe and soft fruits. Hard, unripe plums are not good ingredients for making fruit leathers.
  • If you have fewer fruits than mentioned, you don’t need to cook them for 1 hour, they become prepared sooner than that.
  • Don’t leave the fruits on the stove for too long, they can get bitter.
  • Store the roll-ups in a sealed container to avoid excessive drying.
  • If the water of the fruit leather is fully evaporated, you can keep it in the room without worrying about it molding. If you want to be at more ease, keep it in the fridge. If you want to store it for a long time, you can store it for a year in the freezer. Keep it in a sealed container to maintain the original taste and avoid getting the taste of the other stored food in the freezer.