How to Dehydrate Spinach for Home Food Preservation
Did you know you can dehydrate spinach? Well, you can and you should if you are like us who preserve all our background garden harvests. For one, it is really simple to do and even easier to store and better to rehydrate for meals later.
We like to grow spinach in our repurposed gutter gardens that we have fastened to an old fence. These gutters are made from old gutters that we tore down and replaced with larger seamless gutters on our home. They work perfectly for spinach, strawberries, and loose
How to Dehydrate Spinach
All I do is cut large and full spinach leaves from our gutter garden. If you don’t grow any then purchase a bag of fresh spinach. It works all the same. Then wash the spinach leaves to remove all dirt and debris. I like to use a colander for this step. Next pat dry and place in your dehydrator or on a baking sheet and put in the oven. Make sure you place a single layer of leaves and don’t overlap. Dehydrate at 125 to 135 degrees for about four hours or until the leaves are completely dry and crispy.
Be sure your spinach leaves cooled before putting them in an airtight sealed container. I store all my dehydrate goods in mason jars and seal with a Food Saver Mason Jar vacuum sealer. My jars can fit 2 cups of dehydrated spinach in a quart size mason jar. I prefer to keep my leaves intact as much as possible, but I have seen people grinding them up into spinach powder for smoothies and health shakes.
Rehydrate Spinach
It is simple to rehydrate your spinach, soak in your boiling broth for soup or just hot water for about 10 to 15 minutes. And there you have it, rehydrated spinach.