Ginger Peach Fruit Leather
A super simple, absolutely delicious treat for the whole family. Sweet and tangy with a little gingery kick!
Equipment
- Dehydrator (or oven on the lowest setting)
- Blender (or food processor)
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Peaches pitted and cut in half
- 1 1.5 inch Piece of Ginger peeled and diced
- 1/4 cup Pure Maple Syrup optional
Instructions
- Wash, halve, and pit your peaches. If their skins are especially thick and fuzzy, or if you're worried about pesticide residue, you can peel them. We left the peels on for a quicker process and never noticed them!
- Add the peaches and about a 1.5 inch piece of ginger root, cut and peeled, to the blender and process until perfectly smooth. This took just a few seconds in our Vitamix. If your peaches aren't particularly juicy you may want to add a cup or so of water.
- Pour the peach ginger puree into a medium size stock pot and cook over medium heat. Stir frequently to avoid burning, and let the puree simmer until it has thickened to about the consistency of apple sauce and the water or juice has mostly cooked down.
- Once the puree has thickened in the stock pot, stir in your sweetener. You'll want to do this to taste. We like a tart fruit leather, so a quarter cup of maple syrup was plenty of sweetener for us. But you can always add more, or use cane sugar if you want a much sweeter result.
- Allow the peach mixture to cool for twenty minutes or so. Taste the puree and adjust the sweetness or seasonings. If you're adding cinnamon or cardamom or any other spices, now's the time to do it!
- Pour the peach puree onto your silicone dehydrator mats and smooth out with a rubber spatula. The puree should be about 1/8 inch thickness. You can pour directly on the mats for a smoother result. We poured onto parchment paper, and had some little creases and lines in our fruit leathers. Either way is fine.
- Dehydrate the fruit leathers for 4 hours at 135°F ("fast mode" on the Sedona Express Dehydrator). After 4 hours, check the fruit leathers for tackiness. If they still feel sticky, continue to dehydrate until they're chewy and not so sticky. For us this ended up being about 5 or 6 hours. You can flip the fruit leathers over on the trays about halfway through if you want to speed up the process.
- When the fruit leathers are the perfect texture, pull them out and let them cool, then cut into strips and roll up! Store in a jar in the pantry for a few days, or in the fridge for a few weeks - if they even last that long!