So, my mom experimented with making kale chips. And she also takes a class at the Y on Wed nights, at the same time I'm there. Which meant that last night she hands me a Ziploc bag in the locker room, of little green flakes, and says, "try this. What do you think?" And I'm like, "MOM! I can't carry that around the YMCA!"
Because ... it just looks like ...
Yeah.
I took it in to work today and let some people try it. The taste was actually good. It's just that neither my mom or I knew what kale chips were supposed to look like, taste like, or what consistency they were supposed to be. She was just trying to follow a recipe from a book my sister had sent us for Christmas. They asked for the recipe. Figured I'd share it with everyone! It's from Eat Pure Food by Nicole du Vent.
2 bunches – Kale
Dressing
2-4 TBSP Olive Oil
1 TBSP lemon juice
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. cayenne (optional)
1/2 tsp. onion powder (optional)
1. Wash the kale thoroughly and pat to dry.
2. Tear the kale from the stem in large pieces.
3. Mix the dressing ingredients in a small bowl, pour over the kale and gently massage into the kale. The kale will darken and soften as you massage it.
4. Spread the kale on mesh dehydrator sheets or a lined baking pan.
5. Dehydrate the kale at 115F until very crisp, 4-6 hours.
*If you don’t have a dehydrator you can dry them in your oven : warm up the oven on the lowest setting possible, then turn off the oven but leave the light on: this will give just enough heat to slowly dehydrate them.
Cheesy Kale chips: Add 2 TBSP nutritional yeast
Curry Kale chips: Omit the onion powder and add 1 tsp curry powder and 1/2 tsp cumin
And, for anyone daring enough to experiment, my mom's notes after making her first two experiments. Er, um, batches:
Because ... it just looks like ...
Yeah.
I took it in to work today and let some people try it. The taste was actually good. It's just that neither my mom or I knew what kale chips were supposed to look like, taste like, or what consistency they were supposed to be. She was just trying to follow a recipe from a book my sister had sent us for Christmas. They asked for the recipe. Figured I'd share it with everyone! It's from Eat Pure Food by Nicole du Vent.
2 bunches – Kale
Dressing
2-4 TBSP Olive Oil
1 TBSP lemon juice
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. cayenne (optional)
1/2 tsp. onion powder (optional)
1. Wash the kale thoroughly and pat to dry.
2. Tear the kale from the stem in large pieces.
3. Mix the dressing ingredients in a small bowl, pour over the kale and gently massage into the kale. The kale will darken and soften as you massage it.
4. Spread the kale on mesh dehydrator sheets or a lined baking pan.
5. Dehydrate the kale at 115F until very crisp, 4-6 hours.
*If you don’t have a dehydrator you can dry them in your oven : warm up the oven on the lowest setting possible, then turn off the oven but leave the light on: this will give just enough heat to slowly dehydrate them.
Cheesy Kale chips: Add 2 TBSP nutritional yeast
Curry Kale chips: Omit the onion powder and add 1 tsp curry powder and 1/2 tsp cumin
And, for anyone daring enough to experiment, my mom's notes after making her first two experiments. Er, um, batches:
I heated the oven to about 200 and used the "convection bake" option on my oven which blows the air around. I wanted to speed up the process. The second batch I used "regular bake" at first, but nothing seemed to be happening so I turned on the "convection bake" again to finish them. The first batch I left about an hour. I didn't turn the heat off, because the fan would stop blowing then. I thought maybe they were too dry so the next batch I left only a half hour but they had a bit of moisture left in them so when I put them in a plastic bag, they softened by the next day, so I spread them out on the cookie sheet again and baked them some more.
Your sister mentioned that she used a bit more heat using the oven method, than they suggested. She also commented that heating them too much might "kill" the nutritional value.
I only used about 1 and 1/2 bunches of kale in total for the two batches, so I adjusted the dressing a bit - not necessarily very accurately.
This was very "experimental". Let me know if anyone else gives it a try.
Love, Mom
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