Karyn Calabrese is owner of Chicago restaurants Karyn’s Cooked, Karyn’s On Green, and Karyn’s Fresh Corner, the longest standing raw foods restaurant in the country.
hi I'm Karen calib and I'm here for ehow.com today we're going to make dehydrated apples we'll start with red apples and green apples and we'll slice them very thinly on the mandolin but I'm going to throw a little twist in today and make the dehydrated apples that we make at some of the Karen's restaurants here in the Midwest so we call them apple crisp but you could flavor them with just about any anything that your heart desires you could make cinnamon apples and lemon apples and just about anything so let's get started on the apple crisp today in addition to my uh thinly sliced apples I like to add shredded carrot this is making it more of a harvest feeling type crisp for it I'm going to add a little agave nectar not a lot just a little bit of sweetener because your apples are already pretty sweet going to add the paprika cuz we like them just a little bit spicy we're going to add the black pepper garlic powder garlic salt cayenne pepper really nice heat to it and a little onion powder and a little Cajun powder that really gives it an extra special Flavor now we'll mix this all together and all of these flavors together will blend nicely and then we're going to take them and lay them out on our dehydrator sheets see we have these sheets that come with a lot of dehydrators and they really don't even have to be laid out flat you can just kind of pile them on there just going of spread those all over and then we'll pop it into the dehydrator for at uh probably at about 100 15 anywhere between 110 to 115 this keeps it still a living product so the enzymes are alive we pop it in the dehydrator for about oh 18 hours so here we have our dehydrated apples a great treat for your children for your lunch bags a great uh treat for your guest a little appetizer actually you can put them all over the house um and they will last these will stay good for at least 2 to 3 weeks if not longer a
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