We got a dehydrator a while back, and have had good luck dehydrating a few different things like herbs, fruit and even ground beef jerky (yes it actually works!). Shortly after I first tried dehydrating apples, I wanted to come up with a more savory version, so I threw on some Chile Lime Adobo seasoning we happened to have.
It was awesome. I love the combination of sweet and spicy, so this fit me perfectly. I’ve made these apples a few times now, and always enjoy them, and so has my wife, but I didn’t know if we just had weird taste or if they were actually good, until she accidentally gave some to a couple of the grandkids. They liked them too!
I needed to make some more dehydrated fruit snacks today so along with the plain and chile lime apples I decided to try something else too:
That’s right, I used popcorn seasoning. I wasn’t sure if the nacho cheese flavoring would be too overpowering, so I did a 50/50 blend of the cheese and the butter toppings (about a tablespoon of each for 2 smaller apples).
Not only do they look like cheddar cheese snack, they taste like them too. They are awesome, so if you have a dehydrator, I highly recommend trying this method. It might, as my wife likes to say, “take some of the healthy” out of the apples, but who cares when they taste this good?
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