The autumn in Xi 'an this year is always a bit foggy, the sunshine is not very strong and the air is not very dry, and the hawthorn dried in the first few times has long hair. I tried many ways and finally found a feasible one. It needs to be used in conjunction with the oven, but it is not completely dried in the oven, and it is mainly dried naturally, so that the taste and nutrition can also be guaranteed. Of course, if your place is dry and the sun is dry, you don't need to bother, just dry it directly.
Materials?
Fresh hawthorn
Homemade dried hawthorn?
Wash fresh hawthorn and slice it. I always remove seeds. Recently, a kitchen friend told me that it is good to keep seeds, which can reduce blood fat even more. You can try it.
Spread the chopped hawthorn piece by piece, and don't overlap. Put it in a ventilated place for about half a day to a day, and the surface will be a little dry and become sobbing.
At this time, you can collect the hawthorn slices in the baking tray, put them in the oven, bake them at 90 degrees for about half an hour, and you can see that a lot of water vapor is evaporated. Take out the hawthorn slices and spread them out again to cool them in a ventilated place for a few hours, then put them in the oven again for half an hour at 90 degrees, and then spread them out to dry. Repeat this several times and it will only take two or three days to do it. It should be noted that the drier the hawthorn, the shorter the baking time in the oven.
If the weather is bad and you can't dry it, you can also bake it directly in the oven, bake it at 90 degrees for about 20 minutes, take it out and turn it over, and bake it again. Always be careful not to burn when baking.
The newly made dried hawthorn needs to be kept in a ventilated place for a while. Don't put it in a plastic bag right away. I put it in a plastic basin with many meshes for washing vegetables and continue to cool it. Because it feels dry, there is actually a small amount of residual water vapor, which can only be packed after it is completely dry.