Drying Kale and Spinach

Never even thought of drying kale or spinach until reading posts from Oh Lardy and Self-Reliant School. What a great idea! Certainly was easy enough to do.

First thing I did was wash the leaves up good. I filled the sink with water and added some dish soap and vinegar to kill any bugs or worms. I admit that there were several worms and because of this, I made sure to check each leaf, front and back!

After checking each leaf thoroughly, I placed them in a bowl of clean water to rinse. Once rinsed, I drained them in a colander.

Then the leaves were transferred onto a clean, dry towel to drip even more.

Because I was drying a large quantity of both kale and spinach, I put the spinach in a couple cake pans and placed them in the oven at 150 degrees for 3 hours.

I placed all the kale on the dehydrator racks to dry.

Once the leaves had dehydrated considerably and shrunk in size, I transferred the kale to the lower racks and added the spinach to the upper racks.

After the leaves were thoroughly dried, I removed any hard stems and put them in my blender to grind into a powder. Then I put them in small jars.

I am simply amazed at how my large bags of leaves turned into two small jars of kale powder and one small jar of spinach powder! Guess you could call this "down-sizing". Ha!

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