The invention discloses a preparation method of pucker-free non-cleaning dried jujubes, belongs to the technical field of food
drying processing, and relates to a method of carrying out
microwave vacuum puffing
drying on red dates, aiming at solving the technical problems that jujube
skin pucker, surface color darkening, nutritional ingredient loss, and the like appearing in a
drying process of the red dates. According to the adopted technical scheme, the preparation method of the pucker-free non-cleaning dried jujubes comprises the following steps:
pickling jujubes, grading the jujubes, rejecting defective fruits and impurities in materials; cleaning jujubes; drying water on the surfaces of the red dates by an
air knife after cleaning the red dates; pre-drying for 3 hours-6 hours by
cold air, regulating
moisture of the red dates, and keeping the
moisture of the red dates uniform, so that
moisture content of the red dates reaches 35%-38%; carrying out
microwave vacuum puffing drying on the red dates; spreading materials which are pre-dried by the
cold air in a tray of a
microwave vacuum unit, exhausting and then reducing pressure, wherein the conditions for carrying out the microwave vacuum puffing drying are as follows: vacuum degree is 65kPa-75kPa,
microwave power is 6W / g-10W / g,
drying time is 5 minutes-10 minutes, and final moisture content is controlled at 20%-25%.