Here’s an easy recipe for Dehydrated Orange Slices made easy in the oven with just one ingredient. These are a great addition to cocktails.
Dehydrated Orange Slices
I haven’t been excited about a recipe as I am about this one in a long time! We buy these dehydrated orange slices for cocktails at our local liquor store. They are super expensive, but they’re very cool to add to drinks like old fashioneds, screwdrivers, hurricanes, palomas, sangria or mimosa punch. If you don’t always have fresh oranges lying around, then these dried oranges are perfect!
The Heirloomed Kitchen by Ashley Schoenith
This recipe comes from The Heirloomed Kitchen by Ashley Schoenith. This is a beautiful cookbook of “from scratch” recipes. Ashley is a home cook, who learned from her family, and she has a lovely food blog where she shares recipes too.
There are so many wonderful recipes in the book. These are several that have caught my eye:
- Brie, Sausage and Sage Casserole
- Old Fashioned Crunchy Maple Granola
- Skillet Cornbread with Leeks
- Baked Salmon with Sriracha Soy Sauce
- Mussels in White Wine Butter Sauce
- Sunday Pot Roast with Gravy
- Beefsteak Tomato Sandwiches with Mayo
- Cast Iron Rosemary Bread
- Vintage Glass Stamped Cookies
- Autumn Pear Crisp
- Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pecan Ice Cream
- Alabama White Sauce
- Pickled Red Onions
🛒 Ingredient Needed:
- beautiful oranges, as many as you want (that’s it!)
✏️ How to make Dehydrated Oranges:
*The complete, printable recipe is in the recipe card at the end of this post.
- Preheat the oven to 200℉. Line baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.
- Slice the oranges about ¼-inch thick. Lay the orange slices in a single layer on the prepared baking sheets. Bake for about 2½ to 3½ hours, or until translucent. The amount of time you need to bake them depends on how thinly you cut the slices. If you have more than one baking sheet, you may want to change their positions halfway through baking. Also… I found that turning them over toward the end of their baking time ensured that the slices were dried-out on both sides.
➡️ Recipe Tips:
- Try to cut the slices as uniformly as you can. Then your orange slices will all bake to the same dryness together! I suggest trying to get to 1/4-inch as closely as you can.
- You can use this method to dry lemon, lime and grapefruit slices too!
- Use these dehydrated orange slices to add to cocktails, sparkling water or non-alcoholic punches. You can also use them for decor- add to wreaths and garlands. Or garnish a cake!
- To make in a dehydrator: Lay out the orange slices on the stackable dehydrator trays. Set to 130 degrees F and let the orange slices dehydrate for about 2 days. Depending on how dried out you want them to be, and how thickly you sliced the rounds, check for more or less time. The should be pretty translucent, when done.
✔️ Storage Instructions:
Store your dehydrated orange slices in glass jars. They should last in the refrigerator for a substantial amount of time if they are completely dried out (no moisture). Research says they can keep in the fridge for up to to years in a well-sealed glass container. I would guess that you would use these up long before that! If any mold ever appears, toss them and make some more.
❤️ What I Love About This Recipe:
- We love old fashioned cocktails at our house, but we don’t always have fresh oranges laying around. These work perfectly. They hydrate again once they’ve had a chance to sit inside a drink for a bit.
- I was amazed at how easy this recipe was. I’ll never buy the expensive jars of dried orange slices again!
- This will be the perfect gift for friends and neighbors during the holidays. Cheap too!
Favorite Cocktail Recipes:
Dehydrated Orange Slices
Ingredients
- 4 medium oranges (or as many as you want!)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200℉. Line baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.
- Slice the oranges about ¼-inch thick. Lay the orange slices in a single layer on the prepared baking sheets. Bake for about 2½ to 3½ hours, or until translucent. The amount of time you need to bake them depends on how thinly you cut the slices. If you have more than one baking sheet, you may want to change their positions halfway through baking. Also… I found that turning them over toward the end of their baking time ensured that the slices were dried-out on both sides.
- Store your dehydrated orange slices in glass jars. They should last in the refrigerator for a substantial amount of time. The author stated that her research says they can keep in the fridge for up to to years. I would guess that you would use these up long before that!
Notes
- To make in a dehydrator: Lay out the orange slices on the stackable dehydrator trays. Set to 130 degrees F and let the orange slices dehydrate for about 2 days. Depending on how dried out you want them to be, and how thickly you sliced the rounds, check for more or less time. They should be pretty translucent, when done.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
