These may have eclipsed bananas in the race to be the sweetest treat in the cupboard. Dehydrating fruit intensifies the flavour profile, pear’s natural sweetness makes these slices taste like more like pudding than a healthy, nutritious snack.

If you have a corer and a mandoline, the prep for this will take no time at all and you’ll end up with beautiful rings. Obviously, they don’t have to be rings, they could just be sliced but keep a close eye on them as they dehydrate. Different surface area or thickness will mean a different drying time.

Step 1

Prep your pears for slicing by carefully using the corer to take out the middle. Pears are usually juicier and a bit softer than apples so be careful!

Step 2

Set your mandoline to 3 and gently slice your pears into rings. Lay them out across your dehydrator trays, they can be close together but they shouldn’t overlap.

Step 3

Set your dehydrator to 57°c and 6 hours, let it do its thing but check in on it towards the end. Mine were dry but flexible, a sweet chewy treat! But, if you fancy something a bit crispier you can keep it on for another hour or so.

As always, store in an airtight, sterile container (and hide them from the rest of the snack monsters in your house).

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Snackalina out. x