How to Make Dried Jackfruit
Just like papaya and mango, jackfruit can be dried successfully to a sweet fruit snack. Choose a firm ripe jackfruit flesh for optimum quality.
Procedures:
- Gather firm ripe jackfruit flesh. Slice it into halves.
- Add white sugar (30% by weight) to jackfruit flesh. The sugar is allowed to melt in jackfruit. (Another method of syruping is by quick process in which 25% of sugar and 75% of water is prepared into syrup by boiling then cool and add to fruit.)
- Heat the jackfruit until the slices become translucent. Cool.
- Add 0.1% of sodium erythorbate (1 g for every kilogram of slices). Mix thoroughly.
- Soak in syrup for at least 18-20 hours. Drain. Rinse slices with running water.
- Lay slices on trays lined with cheesecloth. Dry in a cabinet drier at 60-65 deg. centigrade for 10-14 hours. Drying may be done in a solar drier as long as drying area is clean and free from dust and flies.
- Remove from trays and loosely pack dried jackfruit in ordinary plastic bags and store at ambient condition for 18-24 hours.
- Roll in confectioner’s sugar and remove excess coating through straining.
- Pack and seal in OPP or PE plastic bags of 0.003″ thickness.
- Store in dry and cool place.
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jackfruit? then mangoes? must be typos. thanks
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marvin Reply:
November 16th, 2010 at 6:43 am
@mujahidat – thanks for the correction!
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can you provide me an actual budget for this? thanks
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marvin Reply:
January 10th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
I need to know first your expected volume of production and the method of drying you are going to used.
Sun drying equipment cost lower and easy to construct but the drying time is longer and erratic. Oven or Vacuum oven drying provides fast drying but is very expensive to acquire.
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