Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dried Grapes, Muscatel

We have a lot of grapes inside the fruit fridges, Most of the time some of them are getting spoil and its difficult to preserve as fresh for long  period of time. Because of this the chef decided to use the grapes that is about to spoil to use and make a dried grapes muscatel. We use this dried grapes in a Chess platter. We are serving the chess platter usually with 5 different chesses, mustard, bread crackers, nuts and this muscatel.

Since then we never had a spoil grapes.. Muscatel can last for up to a month or more. Its easy to make dried grapes.

Select the grapes that is about to spoil, that is something soft
Put it in a tray,
Spread olive oil on the grapes.
Put salt and sugar
Let it dry under the heating lamp or under the heat of the sun.
When its dry already take and keep it in a nice covered container.

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