Thursday, January 14, 2010

Oven-Dried Sweet Potato Chips

12427243416j30O8

Colorful, crisp sweet potato chips create a flavorful and low-fat substitute for the more familiar fried white potato chips.

Ingredients:

  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp ground coriander
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/4 tsp ground cayenne
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 lb. sweet potatoes, scrubbed and peeled, if desired
  • 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
  2. Combine salt and spices in mixing bowl.
  3. Slice sweet potatoes paper-thin and toss lightly with spices and oil.
  4. Bake until done.

Source: Adapted from Vegetarian Times, 2002.

4 comments:

  1. It's always been a challenge for me getting sweet potatoes to crisp in the oven. They tend to stay a bit soggy. About how long does it take to bake these to crispness?

    ReplyDelete
  2. How long do you normally bake yours? And you only put the oven at 250? Yikes, I crank mine up to 350 or 400!! Maybe that's why they always burn, and then some are still soft... I just can never get the time and temp down! I love adding cumin to mine too, yum.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Janice, thank you for stopping by. After tossing with the spice mixture, bake for 2 hours, then turn off oven and let potatoes dry for 2 more hours or overnight. Alternately, dehydrate sweet potato slices in dehydrator according to manufacturer’s directions. I hope this helps.
    ~All the best,
    Anthony

    ReplyDelete
  4. Gina, thank you for stopping by too. I, personally, prefer to bake my chips at a bit higher temperature too. (Almost like the old saying for meat: "Low and slow or high and fast", but typically, as you stated, the chips do often burn at higher temps.

    Another method that I have tried is to slice the potato paper-thin and place upright o a rotating tray in the microwave oven.

    ~All the best,
    Anthony

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.