Homemade Chips - General Cooking Principles
How do you feel about chips? Most likely, if you have tried them at least once, the answer will be: “They are very tasty, but harmful!” This is not surprising. As biologists have proved, the human body is “programmed” to preserve the mass, and therefore we a priori like the food high-calorie, fatty and nourishing. Perhaps there are no people able to resist the sweet cream cake (those who consider themselves sweets) or fried meat or poultry (those who do not honor sweets). Chips - one of the examples of such food, and your addiction is nothing to do with. If you have tried buying chips at least once, then you know that it is delicious! But another thing is also true - chips manufactured industrially are quite harmful. The fact is that for their preparation, potatoes are not only fried in a large amount of oil, which is no longer quite good for our body, but also actively sprinkled with sodium glutomate afterwards. This component is an enhancer of taste, that is, tasteless in itself, but at the same time it enhances our gastronomic sensations. That is why children love croutons and chips so much and can eat them without measure.
This is not to say that homemade chips can be made very useful. Still, fried potatoes - a mixture of carbohydrates and fat, not very useful for the waist. But if you feast on a little and not in the evening, then why not? In addition, we offer you pita chips, non-calorie crispy delicacy, and cheese chips. You can also try making a carrot or zucchini snack.
Home-made chips - preparing food and dishes
By and large, any housewife can make homemade chips. You do not need complex kitchen appliances - after all, not everyone has a fryer, but there is an ordinary frying pan, oven or microwave in almost every home. But a knife for cleaning vegetables will be very useful and necessary in the preparation of chips. Such a thing is worth no more than 40-50 rubles (15-20 UAH), but it makes life easier for cooks. This knife is very convenient to peel off the peel from vegetables and fruits and thinly thin the vegetables. But without this knife, cutting chips very thinly is almost impossible. You can buy such a useful “trick” in the store or on the market. Chips are most often made from potatoes, so in most of the proposed recipes it will be the main and practically the only ingredient. What about spices? After all, chips come in with bacon, chicken or cheese? That's right, because you also need aromatic salt - on the store shelf of such additives a huge variety, you can choose to taste. But remember that this ingredient contains a flavor enhancer, which we discussed above, and therefore you can eat more chips with this salt than without it.
Homemade potato chips recipes:
Recipe 1: Homemade Potato Chips
The simplest chips are, of course, those that are prepared with a minimum set of efforts and time. You will need a regular frying pan, a plate and a knife for cleaning vegetables in order to turn the potatoes into thin slices. Of course, if you compare homemade chips with those in the package, the difference can be seen with the naked eye. And yet the recipe is good, but the dish turns out excellent - as an additive to beer, or as a separate delicacy. Before use, cool to room temperature.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes 5-6 tubers
- Aromatic salt
- Refined vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Washing potatoes, peel, and cut into thin slices, best using a knife for peeling vegetables. The slice thickness should be about 2 mm.
- After that, we put the mugs of potatoes in water for five minutes, after this period of time we drain the water, and again fill it with clean water. We perform the procedure until the potatoes become transparent and the water stops turning white. This procedure helps to wash all the starch from the potato.
- Heat the pan and pour the oil one centimeter thick. Spread mugs of chips so that they do not touch.
- Fry the potato slices on both sides, then lay them on a plate, sprinkle with salt and leave to cool.
Recipe 2: Home-made chips in the microwave
Can I make dietary chips? You can, if we do them in the microwave. To prepare such a dish, we do not need oil at all.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes 5-6 tubers
- Aromatic salt
Preparation Method:
- Wash the potatoes with the peel, peel, and then cut them in very thin circles with a knife for vegetables. Repeat the procedure with leaching of starch - several times pour the slices with water until it becomes transparent.
- Let the potatoes dry out - place it on paper or regular towels and leave for ten minutes. Salt it.
- Put the chips on a plate so that they do not touch, and cook for eight minutes at 900 watts. To roast the dish more evenly, you can turn the slices, but even without this, the chips turn out to be tasty and roast, while not at all greasy.
Recipe 3: Home-made potato chips in the oven
If you don’t have a microwave, but you want to “ease” the chips and minimize the oil consumption, then use the oven to cook the dish.
Ingredients Required:
- Potatoes
- Aromatic salt
- Refined sunflower oil
Preparation Method:
- Prepare the potatoes as in the previous recipe. Do not forget to dry it with paper towels.
- Put dry potatoes in a deep container, drizzle with oil and salt. Leave the potato slices for 10-15 minutes so that it is soaked.
- On the deck for baking, without oiling, we put the chips so that they do not touch. Sent to the oven for fifteen minutes to dry at a temperature of two hundred degrees. Do not forget to look at the potatoes, because depending on what kind of oven you have, the dish can be burnt.
Recipe 4: Homemade pita chips
When you eat purchased packs of chips, can you say with certainty that you are eating potatoes? Ready to argue that no! Chips - this is something thin and crunchy, with the aroma of mushrooms or jelly, but the potato is almost not noticeable. We offer you a delicious recipe for pita chips - to taste they will be exactly your favorite crunch from the packaging, and only you will know the secret of this dish.
Ingredients Required:
- Lavash thin Armenian
- Fresh dried dill
- Olive oil
- Garlic 3 teeth
- Salt
Preparation Method:
- Dill wash and finely-finely, mix with oil and salt. Add garlic squeezed through a press, mix.
- Lavash is cut into chips and each piece is lubricated with dill mixture.
- Put the chips on a baking sheet and dry in a oven at 200 degrees for no more than five to six minutes. That's all!
By the way, to make chips fatter, you can lubricate them with a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic or a small amount of sour cream.
Recipe 5: Mashed Potato Chips
An unusual snack will appeal to both adults and kids. However, for their preparation you will need a waffle iron, and another “tool” will not work here, but the chips will turn out tasty, crispy and extraordinary.
Ingredients Required:
- Potato 4-5 tubers
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup of milk
- 4 tablespoons flour
- Salt and spices
- Butter (for lubricating a waffle iron)
Preparation Method:
- Peel the potatoes, cook and cook on the stove in a saucepan as for regular mashed potatoes. We grind with the help of a crush into a homogeneous mass - the puree should be of a homogeneous consistency, without lumps.
- In the mashed potatoes (slightly heated) add the egg, flour and milk and mix with a blender. The resulting mass should resemble a cream and be quite rare, but not liquid, otherwise the “dough” will flow out of the waffle iron.
- Add salt and spices to potatoes to taste. You can take aromatic salt from the store, or you can use dried peppers, mushrooms, and greens.
- The waffle iron can be used the most simple, Soviet times. Heat it and oil it. Oil must be refined, odorless. Olive oil is also not suitable.
- Place a tablespoon of potato “dough” on the surface, lightly smear and bake. Consider that the chips burn very quickly, and therefore they need to bake no more than thirty or forty seconds, then open the lid and reach with a knife.
You can sprinkle some ready-made potato chips with salt and flavoring. If you want to give these chips a shop-like look, then place half a tablespoon on the waffle iron of the dough and place the finished chip on a rolling pin, then it will turn out just like from a pack of Pringles or Leys.
Recipe 6: Homemade Cheese Chips
It does not matter whether you like cheese or are indifferent to it, cheese chips will surprise you and will be remembered as a tasty and nourishing snack. By the way, such chips can also be made from stale cheese - for example, in your refrigerator for a week now there is a piece of cheese that nobody eats, but it's a shame to throw it away. Well, let's put it into action!
Ingredients Required:
- Hard cheese
Preparation Method:
- We rub cheese on a fine grater and put it in small piles on the baking tray. It is necessary to put so that the “heaps”, as they melt, do not join together - that is, at a sufficient distance from each other.
- Put the deck with cheese in the oven and leave for four to six minutes at a temperature of one hundred and sixty degrees. The process of melting cheese is very fast, and therefore the chips need to get out as soon as a brown crust appears, otherwise the cheese will burn. That's all. Cool and serve.
By the way, such chips can be cooked with anything - for example, you can add to the cheese carbonade or sausage, greens, garlic, bread crumbs. It will be difficult to guess what these “crisps” are made of, but they have a wonderful taste.
Homemade chips - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- We are used to the fact that chips are a potato dish, and not particularly healthy. Let's break the stereotype, because the chips can be made from carrots, zucchini, blue without a drop of oil! Cook this dish according to the recipe of potato chips in the microwave. Wash vegetables, chop them with a “cleaner” for vegetables, then salt and fry in a microwave oven for about eight to ten minutes. Such multi-colored chips will appeal to both children and adults for beer.
- Chips can be sprinkled with aromatic salt from a pack, or you can mix garlic, dill, and parsley with regular table salt (just take extra, very fine salt), and you will get a harmless seasoning.
