Today's Dehydrator Project: Macaroons by drpr .....
Instructions and photos for making raw macaroons
Date: 4/13/2006 2:37:50 AM ( 18 y ago)
I made the macaroons today. They will be done dehydrating by tomorrow. The ingredients I used were:
- 1 cup almonds, soaked for 8 hours
- 4 medjool dates, soaked for 2 hours
- 1/2 cup the water from the dates
- 1/2 tablespoon almond extract (probably isn't a raw ingredient!)
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
The
coconut was difficult to shred using a hand grater, which is what I
thought I could get away doing, so I had to switch to a food processor.
An entire coconut provided a bit more than 1/2 cup of shredded meat.
I combined all of the ingredients at once to the blender. After
attempting to blend it I wish I had put the almonds in first and
blended those before adding the other ingredients, because the mixture
just wouldn't blend after a few minutes. No amount of stirring could
get it moving, so I switched everything to a food processor. I was
hoping that would do a better job of pulverizing the almonds and
actively mixing everything. It did a much better job, but Chef Felicia
still found a big almond piece in one of the macaroons!
After blending all the ingredients I was supposed to be able to
shape the macaroons and drop them onto the dehydrator tray.
Unfortunately, the dough was too moist, like soft cream cheese. I
couldn't thicken it up because there were no more soaked almonds. Oh,
well. I dropped about 25 of them on the tray and had a little dough
left, which I put in the fridge. Now, I must say that 1/2 of these
cookies have 2 dates and the other half have 3. I wanted to make one
side less sweet because our experience has been that dehydrating
enhances the flavors- salty food is saltier, spicy food is spicier.
Below is the tray of macaroons. Felicia says they look good. They
dehydrate at 105 degree F for 12 - 24 hours. I set the dehydrator to
close to 110 at first, then turned it down to 105 since the outsides
were getting hard by the time 3 hours had gone by.
Now,
I must admit that I tasted one and didn't think it was sweet enough,
but like I said, they might get sweeter when more moisture has left
them. If I make them again, I think I will roll them in the coconut
shreds rather than blending the coconut into them.
Hope that was informative! We'll let you know how they turn out. If anyone has variations on this recipe, feel free to share them!
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