Dried Fruit Recipes

The tea adds an elegant complexity to the sauce for the pears, dried apricots, and cherries. Using dried tart cherries instead of Bing cherries helps balance the sweetness.

Adapted from http://frazgofeasting.blogspot.com/2009/03
/sourdough-dried-fruit-scones.html, these are made without any kind of added fat or eggs (and would be fat free if you use skim milk). They're a good, quick carb hit that's completely customizable and a great way to use up starter toss-off. For Easter I soaked the fruit (raisins and currants) in amaretto and made crosses on the baked scones with a confectioner's-sugar and almond extract icing.

No eggs, no flour, no sugar, no butter - and that was it cake? - ask my mother

My kids LOVE these tasty, chewy granola bars and beg me to make them. They pack well and can be easily adapted to suit your tastes. Any dried fruit can be used. I find prunes add a real richness to them, but dried apricots, peaches, cranberries, blueberries and cherries are all very nice in these. You can also add nuts, chocolate chips and/or coconut - but my family doesn't miss them in this lower calorie version.

Grab a bag of your favorite freeze dried fruit that really has no preparation time, tastes great and is full of nutrition. Freeze dried fruit has no additives!

These dense, moist bars are a delicious, healthy breakfast. Play with the spice and sugar amount, as you please! Great for LapBand patients!

These bars are soft (they sort of fell apart) and tasty. They're a great snack. The dried blueberries are optional. You can vary the amounts and types of dried fruits. Apricots would be really good in these. Just change the amount so that the dried fruits total to about 1.5 cups.

Great for occasional energy boost.

Tastes best when allowed to refrigerate for 2-6 hours.

I got this recipe from Eating Well.

One-pot complete meal (no omitting the starch the way many recipes here do). For maximum flavor, you can let the chicken rest with the spices for up to 8 hours, but it's still delicious with no rest at all! This is a basic recipe that you can modify and bulk up by adding veggies (carrots and/or eggplant work really well with these spices) - just adjust the simmering time so the veggies are cooked to your liking.

Easy to make!

Salty, sweet and a slight bite of black pepper in a snack bar.

Make your own mix

Courtesy: "The Daniel Fast" by Susan Gregory

From Shakespeare's kitchen

Great power bar breakfast!

this is just a trail mix that i make to take to school with me. it is filling

Use whatever fruits and nuts you fancy.

This tangy-sweet, chunky mixture of dried figs and sultanas gets an interesting twist with black tea, and Szechuan peppercorns. Truvia helps cut the added sugar in half while keeping the flavour of a "real" jam, and Pomona's pectin lets it all set! Adapted from The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving, Second Edition: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard.

My sister gave me this recipe and I love it! You can replace the dried cranberries and pecans with the dried berry and nut of your choice.