Easy Raw Vegan Dehydrating by Kristen Suzanne

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Kristen Suzanne's Easy Raw Vegan Dehydrating

Dehydrating some of your raw food is a great way to add variety, as well as shelf life, to the raw vegan lifestyle.

With a dehydrator, you can have crunchy foods, warm foods, marinated foods with a texture reminiscent of cooked food, and foods that can last a long time in your pantry, refrigerator or freezer.

One of the biggest challenges people think they’ll encounter with raw food cuisine is not having enough time to prepare the food and/or not having enough variety. Bringing a dehydrator into your life solves both of these issues.

Dehydrating your raw food at a low temperature is a technique that warms and dries your food, while preserving its nutritional integrity. You are removing moisture from the food, so bacteria, yeast and mould don’t grow and spoil the food. The food becomes lighter in weight because the water weight is gone.

This is great for the raw food lifestyle, because you can make something and eat it at a later date. You don’t always have to eat everything immediately after you make it. This can make life much easier, especially when you’re new to Raw.

Dehydrating your food is really simple. You’ll find some great recipes to get you started in this book. This style of preparing food offers you the opportunity to enjoy foods that are crunchy like crackers and vegetable chips, as well as chewy and pliable like fruit leathers. You can always have something delicious on hand when you are hungry; this is especially helpful when you find yourself strapped for time and needing something fast.

Dehydrating is useful for food preparation that you need to do in advance. For example, if you know you’re going to be entertaining next month, you can start some of the preparations right now, by making your breads and crackers ahead of time.

When you use a dehydrator you can also save a lot of money making your own dehydrated foods, as opposed to buying pre-dried, packaged foods.

There are many brands of dehydrator on the market, but the author says there is only one that she truly loves. Her favourite is the Excalibur and she qualifies this by saying: "because they are trusted, their technology is state of the art (as well as their customer service), and they have something for everyone. They have been the leaders in dehydration technology for over 35 years. If you ask around among raw fooders and people in-the-know, you’ll almost always find that Excalibur is the name most recommended."

Questions asked (and answered) include:-

• Should I get a plastic or stainless steel dehydrator?
• What type of stainless steel is the dehydrator made out of?
• What are the trays made of?
• Where is the dehydrator manufactured?
• Is the dehydrator a green product?
• How long has the manufacturer been in business and what is the warranty?
• Are the edges rounded and seamless for easy cleaning?

There follow a few more pages devoted to Dehydrating Fundamentals, which it is highly advisable to read because their content can make the difference as to whether you can make a success of dehydrating. Then follows the enjoyable and tasty part: pages filled with mouth-watering recipes.

The chapters are headed as follows:

• 1: Dehydrating and Fundamentals
• 2: Fruits & Veggies
• 3: Nuts & Seeds
• 4: Pancakes, Crackers, Breads & Wraps
• 5: Special Dehydrated Ingredients
• Appendix A: Raw Basics & Resources

117 pages

ISBN 978-0-9817556-8-7

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