How to dry watermelon at home: prepare chips, lozenges and candied fruits from watermelon rinds

Dried watermelon does not have its own distinct taste, so try making dried watermelon in several variations.

You can make salty watermelon chips or sweet lozenges. All this is decided during the cooking process. For drying, watermelons that are somewhat unripe and with dense flesh are suitable. Cut the watermelon into small slices, cut off the peel, and place it in an electric dryer, laying a fine plastic mesh on a tray.

If you want salty chips, immediately sprinkle the watermelon slices with coarse sea salt, and only then turn on the dryer.

It is better to dry watermelons at a low temperature, no more than 50 degrees. On average, watermelon drying time is about 12 hours.

If you have a sweet tooth, sprinkle the finished “chips” with powdered sugar and try. The taste is unusual, but very pleasant.

The remaining watermelon rinds can also be put to use by making candied fruits from them.

Candied watermelon rinds

Peel the green skin, leaving only the white flesh, and soak them in cold water for a couple of hours.

Cut into strips or squares.

Prepare the syrup. For 1 liter of water, you will need 1 glass of sugar.Boil the syrup, add the peels to it and simmer until the peels become transparent.

You can cook the crusts in several stages, alternating boiling with cooling.

When the crusts become transparent, drain the syrup, place the pieces on an electric dryer tray and dry at a temperature of 60 degrees for 10 hours.

After this, sprinkle the candied fruits with powdered sugar and serve.

Multi-colored candied fruits are obtained by adding food coloring to the syrup during the last cooking. You can cook watermelon rinds in several saucepans, adding a different dye to each.

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