I made kale chips last night.
I made kale chips last night. You could say I started making them during the day, since that was when I washed the kale and then let the leaves sit in the dish rack awhile. I dried them even more by squeezing paper towels around each leaf.
Pic 1) After that, I got busy with work, so I just let the leaves sit around in a plastic bowl on the counter pretty much the rest of the afternoon. They started to wilt a teeny bit and get soft, but not by much, and they were SUPER dry and ready.
Pic 2) trim the stems. My kitchen shears were in the sink with other dirty dishes and I forgot, so I grabbed these other ones and started cutting. I found a trick that made quick work out of this task. When I picked up a leaf, it was sort of already folded inward on itself, so I kept it folded that way and trimmed the stem right out. Easy-peasy.
Pic 3) Then I cut each leaf into chunks like this, and not much smaller, (I don’t have big palms). About 2.5″, square. The pieces will shrink in the oven quite a bit.
Pic 4-5) Now they go into a bowl with oil and seasonings (I used 1 tablespoon of refined coconut oil and 1 tablespoon of avocado oil, 1/2 tsp pink salt, 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, and 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast) and massage them well with the mixture until the leaves were coated with it. I sprinkled a light dusting of ground cayenne pepper on one batch.
Pic 6) Then I put them onto sheet pans lined with parchment and baked each sheet for 15 mins at 300F.
Pic 7) Came out nice!
After trying some (okay, a LOT), I put the leaves onto one tray and set it back in the oven after it was cool and left the tray in there overnight to not only keep my hands off them the rest of the night, but to ensure the chips would stay dry (many complaints by folks who have made these–following other recipes online–were about how the chips got soggy after putting them away, so with this extra step, they stayed crisp.
One tray was about 1.2 ounces worth, and about 1 serving. They go fast! Would I do them again? Yes, if I have time, and if I can keep myself from eating them all in one go (so far, so good, I haven’t touched them yet today!)
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Also, making them at home is lots cheaper than paying $5-10 for half this much, of store-bought. $1.99 for one bunch of kale, and I had the rest of the stuff on hand already, since I use those things a lot
YW! They go fast, so I only buy the bunches of kale when they’re on sale super cheap and get lots since they take awhile to dry and prep and wait for more drying afterward. You may do better with a dehydrator, not sure if that makes more, but it’s definitely faster.
I should probably not make them again, it’s too easy to eat the whole batch and my carb intake per day is under 20 net grams. LOL.