There are different ways to dry bananas. which are discussed in this topic.
One of the issues that mothers face today is how to provide nutrients to their children.
Making dried fruit cake from a variety of dried fruits is one of the good ways to feed children, because many children love sweets and cakes.
The benefits of bananas and dried fruits have been clear to everyone not only in the new era but also in previous years.
The most important properties of dried bananas make us more eager to eat this delicious dried fruit.
One of the things that can be done with dried fruits is to use them as a snack, in which case using dried fruits alone can be a good option.
In some cases, dried fruits are used for parties, which can be used alone and can be used in all kinds of desserts or even foods.
Banana is one of the fruits that has a lot of nutritional value, and there are different ways to dry bananas.
One of the simple ways to dry bananas is to start by peeling them and cutting them in any way you like. For example, you can ring bananas.
After you cut the bananas in any way you like, you can put them in a bowl and pour fresh lemon juice over it and leave the bananas like that for 5 minutes.
Putting more bananas in the lemon juice may make it off-flavor for some tastes, but if you like the taste of lemony bananas, you can leave the bananas in the lemon juice for longer.
However, instead of drying bananas at home, you can buy dried bananas from dried fruit stores.
Using lemon juice to soak bananas helps prevent them from turning brown during the drying process.
The thing that needs to be addressed here is that the size of the banana pieces should be the same size and something around half a centimeter is suitable for the diameter of the pieces.
Equally slicing bananas can be effective in the process of drying bananas, because the heat reaches all of them in the same way, and if the sizes are different, then some pieces may dry and others may not, or even burn.
After removing the bananas from the lemon juice, place them on a wire rack. Because this shelf can lead to cooling of bananas and deep drying of bananas.
Placing bananas in these mesh trays will cause the bananas to completely lose their moisture and dry easily. Banana drying is done industrially with special devices, dried fruit production in Iran and dried fruit production centers are produced according to special conditions and standards.
Another point that should be taken into account for the arrangement of bananas is that the pieces of bananas should not be piled on top of each other and it is better to place them next to each other. Of course, if the bananas touch each other from the edge, there is no problem.
Because bananas shrink during the drying process.
In the next step, it is necessary to turn on the oven and set its temperature to 125 degrees, of course, in order to obtain a better product, it is necessary to preheat the oven. After the oven is heated, the bananas arranged on the tray can be placed in the oven, and the middle shelf of the oven is suitable for this.
In order to be able to take out the dried bananas, 18 hours of time need to pass, and of course, visiting the picked bananas during this period of time must be done continuously so that the bananas do not turn brown and burn.
If you have a fruit drying machine at home, it is better to set the temperature of this machine to 135 degrees. In this case, bananas need less time, about 8 to 16 hours, to become crispy and dry.
There is another way to dry bananas and prepare dried fruit, which is to prepare this product as cubed dried fruit. Preparation of dried fruit and dried banana in the form of cubes cannot be done by hand, and for its production it is necessary to have advanced devices.
There is no human intervention in the preparation of dried fruit in the form of cubes.
Today, dry fruit production starts from small workshops and ends in large factories.
Today, there is a need for dried fruit more than ever and even the export of this product is started, the dry fruit industry is a profitable business.
Preparation of dried fruit is created in large factories with large areas and advanced devices, which are generally of good quality.
Fruits are inserted into the pulping machines, this fruit can be bananas, depending on the type of machine, bananas can be dried in different ways such as evaporation or sublimation.
Another method for drying bananas is the crystallization method. For this, it is necessary to prepare the necessary ingredients, which include ¼ cup of water, 2 cups of sugar, and half a kilo of prepared and cut fruit.
To continue, it is necessary to dissolve sugar in water and place it on the flame until the water and sugar solution boils and thickens a little.
Then this solution should be placed against the gentle wind to cool down a little. After the solution cools down, it is necessary to arrange the fruits at a distance from each other and pour the obtained syrup on it.
In order to be able to make crystallized dried fruit, the fruits should not be touched for 9 hours and placed in a place without movement so that the syrup is completely absorbed by the fruits. After nine hours, the fruits can be removed from the solution and syrup in different ways. to dry
The product obtained in this way can be eaten as sugar with tea and tea.