Kale Chips

Mar 19th 10

For the most part, I’m a really great eater; I’ve literally drank maybe 5 sodas in as many years, and that’s because they were mixed with punches, or the only available drink wherever I happened to be. I don’t ever feel like eating chocolate, I’m not into cookies or sweets. It’s easier for me to “give up” the bad stuff, because I never got into it in the first place. Thanks, Mom, for never allowing me soda except at birthday parties!

Anyway, one thing I’m guilty of loving is CHIPS. YUM! I have fond memories of BBQ chips with french onion dip with my mom when we’d have our mom/daughter time.

So someone asked me the other day what I eat when I get a craving for something crunchy, like a cracker or chip? Well, sometimes I eat something called “soy crunchies” which are dehydrated soybeans, sometimes Wasabi coated green peas (but I avoid breathing out of my nose afterwards), and now, these Kale Chips!

My friend Cathy told me she and her partner Mark enjoy something called Kale Chips. She told me the recipe and methodology, and I tried them tonight. Here’s how to do it:

Kale, Salted and Oiled

First, I preheated the oven to 450 degrees; I took some Kale that I’d rinsed and dried SUPER well, tore the leaves into manageable pieces (and get rid of the stems), dropped them into a big bowl, tossed with 1 tbsp. of olive oil (or the spray kind), and, if you want the salt and vinegar chip flavor, another tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. Sprinkle a little sea salt and coarse ground black pepper over it all, and drop onto a cookie sheet in a single layer.

Kale, ready to be made into chips!

Bake for about 5-ish minutes-and a word to the wise: you’ve gotta watch these things! They’ll burn easy, and they cook quick!

Take them out of the oven at the about 5 minute mark, flip/toss them, and put them back in. What you want is for them to be crispy, a smidge dark, but not too brown because then they get bitter.

I’m not one for complicated recipes as you guys know, and this borders on probably one of the touchiest recipes I’ve ever posted. But for real, these crispy, delicious, HEALTHY little chips are AWESOME and well worth it!

And here’s the final product:

: Kale Chips!

Alright guys, hear me out- they’re crunchy, delicious, completely comparable to a chip, and they will keep your waistline as happy as your taste buds! YUM!

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Kale Chips

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