Made a huge batch of kale chips last night.
Made a huge batch of kale chips last night. I used avocado oil + coconut oil + salt & garlic powder + nutritional yeast as the base coating, and added a few different things to different batches for a variety. One batch had black pepper added, another had chili powder, and the last two had chili lime flavor (pictured). These are as addictive to me as potato chips used to be, and it’s easy to wolf down more than I ought to. An ounce is plenty though, at about 8 grams net carbs (more than I try to fit into a meal!). Original recipe/method here: https://goo.gl/MuvUt2
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So an ounce of these chips is 8g of carbs? What’s the difference in potato chips…? I don’t eat either but I’m curious.
Potato chips have about 15 net grams carbohydrate per ounce. So just about twice, in potato chips. The nutritional yeast in these adds some carbs, too. About 2-3 grams per 2 tablespoon (but lots of B vitamins). For some perspective, I eat 20 grams or less net carbs per day. So 8 is stupid for me. I was craving the damn things, and now I’m kinda feeling stupid for making them but I will share the with my family.
Also, potato chips are almost always cooked in omega 6 polyunsaturated fat (cottonseed, canola/rapeseed, peanut, soybean oil, or a combination of 2 or more of these) that are inflammatory for me (and many others)
Bobbi Jo Woods Yeah, I see what you mean. 🙂
Bobbi Jo Woods Yeah, that’s another reason besides many that I stay away from chips. I can say, I’ve eaten maybe a whole small bag per year.
I haven’t eaten any junk food since last Memorial day weekend
I’m interested in trying these, but I am allergic to coconut. is there a good substitute for coconut oil? I’ve noticed a lot of the low carb stuff always has coconut oil in it which has stopped me from trying a lot of stuff. :-/
I never let a recipe calling for something I don’t like or don’t have stop me from trying anything! Google is my friend. I just type in “substitute for _________” and find whatever.
You don’t have to use coconut oil on anything low carb, E queen 🙂 It is a very popular saturated fat and because of its good fatty acid properties (contains a high amount of medium-chain triglycerides like lauric acid), it’s a good fat for our bodies…so that’s why you see it mentioned so frequently.
Avocado oil is a good substitute, and it can take up to 500 F cooking heat before its smoke point. It also has a very neutral flavor and is great for making homemade salad dressings and mayo.
Also, if you want to try getting in medium chain fatty acids, pure MCT oil is a good way to do it without coconut.
you did great! I’d buy a bag of those!
Thanks!
Avocado oil?? How do you oil an avocado? Cub only seems to have it in spray form. Oh well, guess I spray today
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And then I immediately find it. Go me!
It’s pretty good shit…it takes higher temps than olive oil but has almost no flavor.