How to Dehydrate Spinach and Make Spinach Powder
Preserve spinach for any meal with spinach flakes or spinach powder and create shelf-stable spinach storage in your pantry.
Equipment
- Dehydrator
- Bullet blender or coffee grinder
Ingredients
- Spinach
Instructions
- Wash Spinach
- Separate spinach leaf from any large woody stems if desired
- Place on deydrator trays.
- Dry at 95F / 35C for 4-10 hours until cripsy when cool
- Store leaves in an airtight container -or-
- Place dried spinach leaves in a coffee grinder or bullet blender and powder.
Notes
How to Use Dehydrated Spinach:
1 C fresh = ¼ dried = 1 TB powdered
Flake spinach leaves into meals and cook - no prep work needed. They will stay as large as you make them and rehydrate within the dish.
Sprinkle spinach powder into any savory dish to boost the nutrition - works especially great in eggs or smoothies!