In one of my dehydrating classes I had someone ask if I’d ever tried making fruit leather with yogurt, which I’ll admit I had heard of but never tried. So when son tried a bite of his yogurt and decided he didn’t want the rest, I figured it was as good a time as any to give yogurt leather a shot.
I prepped the dehydrator trays with saran wrap the same as for fruit leather. Extend the wrap over the edges of the tray and kind of tuck it underneath. If you only put one strip down the middle of the tray it leaves the sides clear of plastic wrap so they slide in the grooves easily. Press and seal style wrap works well also if you don’t have fruit leather sheets for your dehydrator.
Then I poured the yogurt on in little circles for something a little different. This was store brand fruit-at-the-bottom type yogurt–mixed berry I think.
Normally fruits dry at 135, but I had carrots and celery in the dehydrator at the same time, so this dried at 125. After 6-8 hours, it was dry enough. I can’t remember how long I dried it, but it probably could have used a bit more–they were really sticky. However, once the kids saw that they were peeling off the plastic wrap, they didn’t last long enough to think much about drying them more.
They were pretty tasty, and sweet. The kids loved them–even the one who didn’t want to eat the yogurt earlier. Maybe a plain vanilla yogurt or plain yogurt mixed with a bit of jam or lemon yogurt would be a little less sweet. We’ll probably be making these again, in fact, when youngest daughter who is home “sick” saw the pictures this morning, she said, “ooooh, can we make that again? I’ll eat it all!” Who knew dehydrated yogurt would be so tasty!
Keep preparing! Angela
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Angela,
I'd never heard of yogurt leather and would never have thought of it. THANKS so much for sharing your experiment. I can hardly wait to give it a try.
Melinda
I made some last night in my GardenMaster, but the yogurt stuck pretty solid to the fruit leather trays. Any suggestions to stop that???
Jason, maybe it would help if you lightly sprayed the tray with cooking spray like we do with the fruit leather.
I use parchment paper instead of plastic wrap, I find it sticks less.
Also there isn't concrete proof either way if heating plastic wrap directly touching food is a good or bad thing, but the FDA suggests against direct contact, so I prefer the more cautious route.
I used parchment paper with yogurt – the yogurt is stuck to the paper and the whole thing was ruined.
Can you store these or do you have to eat them right away
I have never tried to store them. They do have the “milk” factor to them that might make them so they don’t keep as long as plain fruit leather, but I really don’t know how long they would store–I usually just make them for snacking and they disappear pretty quick.