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Recipe From Matthew Kenney's Everyday Raw

Sweet potato crisps

This is a simple raw recipe! Peel a sweet potato, then use a mandoline to shave thin rounds. Dehydrate for 3-5 hours at 40°C. They look lovely and taste delicious! You will be amazed at how much flavor natural crisps have!

My only issue was they were not as crispy as I would have liked. I need some dehydrating tips! How can I ensure a satisfactory crispiness?

Eggplant bacon

I came across this beautiful post on Raw+Simple with Matthew Kenney's raw eggplant bacon recipe plus pictures. Yum! Grease! were the two words that sprung into my mind. After completing the 30-Day Raw Feast I celebrated by buying myself a dehydrator. The first vegetable I dehydrated was tomatoes, the second was eggplant. The result was not bad! Very tasty (delicious with sunflower seed paté), but not crispy enough.

I recently made sweet potato chips in the dehydrator and they were also not as crispy as I like. A question for expert dehydraters: what is the trick to crispiness? Lower temperature for longer time or a higher temperature for a shorter time period?

Below a visual step-by-step of making eggplant bacon! Check out the link above for the full recipe.

Step #1
Peel the eggplant, sprinkle with salt, and let sit.

Step #2

Marinate the eggplant

Step #3

Lay out eggplant in the dehydrator

Step #4

Eat! It even resembles bacon.