Preserving Figs using a Dehydrator or Oven
When it is fig season, it is FIG season! When I was little, my Oma had a fig tree and we loved picking them fresh and eating them while playing outside. So, of course, I just had to have my own tree when I grew up. Our fig tree is a very resilient tree. I can forget to water and fertilize it in triple digit heat and it will still grow and bear fruit. It’s a great fruit tree to grow in hot regions and they really do require minimal care.
Figs seem to multiply like crazy and they don’t stay fresh for very long. So when you have a fig tree and they all seem to get ripe at once, you need a good way to preserve them. Other than our favorite fig jam, we utilize this food preservation method for our surplus.
This dehydrated fig recipe works with any type of fig. Mission, Celeste, Brown Turkey – if it’s a ripe fig, it will work.
We use this food dehydrator and love it. You can buy additional racks to dehydrate more at once, too!
