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Describe how you would preserve green leafy vegetables using a sun-drying method.

      

Describe how you would preserve green leafy vegetables using a sun-drying method.

  

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Kavungya
-Wash the vegetables in cold saline water cut them in medium sizes to prevent loss of nutrients blanch the vegetables to mountain colours, kill micro-organism and preserve nutrients.
-Drain the vegetables and then spread them on a tray or mat so that they dry quickly.
-Cover the tray or ,mat with a piece of netting/ muslim cloth/ thin wire netting so that insects cannot reach the vegetable place the tray under direct sunlight in such a way that air can circulate all round it
-Put on a flat revised ground preferably on the roof on a table on a pile of bricks or stones such that animals wont reach the food
-Turn the vegetables regularly so as to dry quickly them
-Test the vegetables for dryness by squeezing it in the hand
-If they are crispy and dry store in airtight container.
Kavungya answered the question on October 10, 2019 at 12:25


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