How To Dehydrate Onions for Food Storage

How To Dehydrate Onions for Food Storage

Learn How To Dehydrate Onions For Food Storage using a Dehydrator. Use Dry Onion in your Cooking or further Mince it into a Delicious Onion Powder for your Seasonings.

Course Pantry

Cuisine American

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 7

Total Time 5

Servings teaspoons

Calories 9kcal

Author Zuzana Paar

Equipment

1 Sharp knife
1 Dehydrator

Ingredients

2 Onions
Water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prepare your onions. Wash and clean them from all of the impurities. Slice the outer onion skin. Cut the onions into half and cut out the root or a stem. Using a sharp knife, slice the onions into thin onion streaks approximately a quarter of an inch thick.
Take each slice of onion, and separate each of the streaks using your hands.
Place fresh chopped onion pieces onto dehydrator trays making sure they are all single-layered. Depending on how many onions you plan to dehydrate, you can use that many trays. I have used one tray for one and a half of the medium size of the onion.
Place all of the dehydrator trays onto a dehydrator and close the lid. Switch to 70 degrees Celsius or 160 Fahrenheit and switch the dehydrator for 6 to 7 hours. If you are using all the trays, alternate them every 2 hours for equal dryness.

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Notes

Drying time - depends really on the thickness and shape of your onions.
Food processor - can be used to chop your onions if a large amount of onions are used.
Dehydrator trays - swap your trays every 2 hours for equal drying
Cutting onions without crying - freeze your onions for 10 minutes before cutting
Cooling time - before preserving them for longer, let them cool at room temperature.

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