Tropical Walnut Cookies

Get Your Dehydrator On: Whether it’s extra garden bounty or a sale at the supermarket – dehydrating food is a budget-friendly way to stock up for later. You can use a food dehydrator, a low slow oven, or natural sunshine to preserve natural healthfulness. Show us how you like to dehydrate, or a healthy recipe for how you enjoy using dehydrated fruits, veggies or other bounty.

I managed to obtain a dehydrator for $20 with the help of several guys we trained to dance for a fundraiser event earlier this year. (Just to make life more interesting, we mashed up Miley Cyrus and Ke$sha; the audience loved it.) Sadly, I haven’t ventured past making apple chips and banana taffy/chips, so I’m really glad this theme came up! :]

My mom sent me a 6-lb. bag of walnuts earlier this year because they’re “good for my brain,” which, yes, they are, but I had another 3 lbs that I was already working on, so I’ve been trying to find excuses to use em’. Here’s one!

I could not wait the 12 hours I’d arbitrarily chosen as the timeframe for them to finish dehydrating because it was making my entire apartment smell so darn delicious…so I popped one out at about 4 hours and demolished it in a couple seconds. :] These are best served warm, and if you don’t have a dehydrator, I’m fairly convinced that you can bake these for ~8-10 minutes at 350 for similar-ish results.

Tropical Walnut Cookies

• 1 cup dried mangoes
• 1 cup unsweetened, shredded coconut
• 10 pitted dates (soaked for 2 hours)
• 2 cups walnuts (soaked overnight)

Instructions:

1. Blend dates with ~1/2 cup water (can use the water that you soaked them in!), coconut, walnuts and dried mangoes.
2. Spoon out “dough” into bite-size pieces onto wax paper and lay flat onto the dehydrator trays.
3. Dehydrate for ~12 hours. Flip them over when the dough has firmed up.
4. Serve warm!

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