domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011

Eating Healthy Can Be Tasty! Healthy, Home-Made Vegetable Chips.






Today's recipe is simple and easy.

Almost everyone loves potato chips for snacking but most commercially made chips are high in fat and contain chemicals not found in nature.

Our natural chips are rich, healthy and different. For a truly organic experience purchase only organically grown vegetables. To shape your chips you can use cookie cutters or fashion them the old fashioned way with a paring knife. Choose any shape you like. I used hearts and Christmas tree shaped cookie cutters. Potatoes are actually the best for holding their shape. Even though they are made from potatoes they ARE healthy.

Ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes
4 radishes
2 potatoes
2 carrots
1/2 bag of raw spinach
1 box of cherry tomatoes
salt to taste


Wash and dry vegetables. Cut the potatoes, radishes and sweet potatoes into slices. Cut the carrot  into very thin strips and cherry tomatoes into halves. Preheat the oven to 200 F or 100 C.

Some vegetables take longer to become dehydrated and crisp so pre-heat the sweet potato, carrot and tomato slices in a microwave. Not all microwaves are the same so try half a minute and, if needed, half a minute more. The idea is to dehydrate in the oven so don't over-do the microwave.

Line 3 cooking pans with paper. Place the sweet potato with carrots and lightly salt. All vegetables should put a side by side but not on top of each other to prevent sticking and insure good air circulation.

On your second tray, lined with paper, place your potatoes, radishes and tomatoes. Don't forget the touch of salt.

In your last tray, always lined with sheet  paper, scatter your spinach and lightly salt . This vegetable dehydrates the fastest so watch closely and pull in about 1/2 hour. The spinach should be crisp, with an intense flavor. Spinach forms surprisingly rich chips.

For your other vegetables the cooking time is about an hour but will depend on the thickness of the slices or strips. They are ready when they are crisp.  Save your chips in  airtight containers and they can stored for a very long time.

Good Luck!

Monica

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