Spicy Red Kale Chips with Cashews and Miso
Crispy, light & flavorful – these chips are quite easy to make. The ultimate healthy snack! Recipe: Baked and RAW
Make a flavor paste~seasoned topping and simply massage into leaves and bake. An explosion of flavor!
Ingredients
Instructions
Baked Kale Chips:
Remove the thick, center ribs from each kale leaf on a cutting board with a sharp, small knife – cutting it away.
To achieve crunchy kale leaves, it is important to remove this rib, until about an inch to the top of the leaf.
Wash the leaves, and place them in a salad spinner, in two additions until dry.
Alternately, you can dry the leaves in a kitchen towel, or paper towels.
Make sure the are VERY dry, or they will not crisp as nicely.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Add the dry leaves to a large bowl and make the seasoned topping. (You may tear the leaves into large shapes.)
In a small food processor add the next six ingredients, olive oil through garlic powder.
Pulse the topping, scraping down in between until a paste, and the cashews are all chopped.
Add to the leaves in the bowl.
With your hands, rub… gently massage the topping into the leaves until all is coated.
Gets a little messy – yet you need you use your hands.
Add the nutritional yeast, lightly rub in until coated.
Very lightly grease two rimmed baking pans.
Place the leaves in a single layer on the pans, leaving a little space between them.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at a low temperature until crisp, dry and crunchy (they continue to crisp a little out of the oven.)
~ The recipe does not need salt, the miso is salty enough, and the nutritional yeast gives a flavor boost.
When cool, store in an airtight container. Will last about 1 week… tastes best in the first few days.
For RAW Chips: see above then use dehydrator to crisp.
I start at a higher temperature (normally 145 degrees) and then after a period of time, usually 1/2 to 1 hour, reduce the temperature to 115. Yes, this is still raw, and no you are not compromising the nutrients. The thing to remember here is that the FOOD temperature never goes above 115.
Use the mesh sheets of your dehydrator. Add the leaves in a single layer on them, leaving a little space between them.
Dehydrate at 131 -135 degrees for about 2 hours total time, or until the chips are dry and crispy.
See BLOG for many photos and how-tos.
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