baked kale chips

I found this recipe and these baked kale chips are supposed to be way better for you than regular potato chips. Kale is supposed to be very nutritional. This recipe is extremely easy, so this blog addition should be fairly short. Ingredients:

1 bunch of kale

1 tbs olive oil

1 tspn seasoned salt

First I washed each kale leaf and dried it off thoroughly. Apparently a salad spinner should be used but I don't have one so I dried them all off with paper-towels. Once they were dried off, I cut them into chip-sized pieces and laid them out on parchment paper on a baking sheet. I had three sheets of chips because the bunch of kale was so huge, so actually for me 1 bunch of kale created 3x this recipe. 

leaf-chips?? wtf? damn hippies!!!

Once the chip-sized leaf clippings were laid out on the pan, I drizzled them with the 1 tablespoon of olive oil. To me the olive oil didn't go very far. Maybe I am not a great drizzler, but some of the chips did not get covered so I had to add another tablespoon of olive oil (this is still per pan of chips - so for all 3 pans I used a total of 6 tablespoons of oil). I was thinking if there is a way I could put oil in a little spray bottle, that would be a lot easier and efficient for affectively covering the chips with the right amount of oil. I will have to try that out next time. 

oil-drizzled

salt sprinkled, ready to go into the oven

So once they were drizzled with oil, I sprinkled them all with the 1 teaspoon of seasoned salt. Here is another definite adjustment I would make the next time I make these. In the end, the chips turned out pretty salty. 1 teaspoon doesn't sound like a lot of salt for a whole pan, but it is. Unless you just love salt.

Anyways, I used the 1 teaspoon of salt (per pan). Turned on the oven to 350 and once it was preheated put the baking sheet in the oven for around 10 minutes. I would say keeping them in any longer than 12 or 13 minutes would probably over-bake the leaves and they would turn to dust when you touch them.

The chips do come out pretty fragile and thin, just don't grab them like you're digging for popcorn and you'll be okay. They are very tasty, this batch just came out very salty. I highly recommend them. Yum Yum Yum!