Buena mulata's are coming in and looking lovely!!
We did purple UFO last year, and completely lost the purple color in the dehydrator. Didn't know you could cook the purple right out of em. Live and learn.
Does anyone have tips for drying these while still maintaining that beautiful purple? Do they air dry well? I would like to use them as a flake.
by ThreeLeggedMutt
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I had the same problem when I tried dehydrating them. I wondered if they’d keep their color better if they were dried really slowly, maybe just strung up and dried naturally without a dehydrator. I never got around to testing that, though.
Air drying them! will take around 3 weeks to fully dry depending on ambient conditions indoors (I do indoors to prevent curious critters)
I assume you know this, but if not – the buena mulatas are not ripe when they’re purple. The flavor changes significantly from the purple stage to the final fiery red, and they are much less bitter and have a “fuller” flavor at red.
But to answer your question, short of air-drying as someone else suggested, I don’t know of any way to preserve the purple color.