These aren't part of the cookbook as this is a new craze that I have seen many a blog post and article about so I just had to try them and so do you! We have been all about Kale lately. It is so delicious. We eat it in the raw and eat it lightly steamed with garlic and Parmesan. Then this past week end we learned that it really tastes great with peanut butter! Just take a stalk and clean off the largest portion of leaves, and slather it with peanut butter like you would do to a piece of celery!
Now to the Kale Chips!
Wash you kale well. Then take it to the chopping block and slice the leaves from the stalks. Put the leaves
into a salad spinner and get them really dry. Put the dry leaves into a really large bowl, and toss them with olive oil, sea salt and Parmesan cheese. Spread them out on your cookie sheets.
It is hard to measure how much olive oil to use. You don't want the leaves to be saturated by any means. You want a light coating. I found to use the sea salt sparingly, as the kale tends to have it's own salty, earthy flavor. Have your oven pre-heated to 300 degrees then pop your kale in the oven. I baked the kale chips for 20 minutes total, turning each leaf over at ten minutes. It was easier to just use my fingers to turn them over. The finished product is a crispy, slightly chewy piece of heaven which must be packed with nutrients!
I also read a great idea which was crush some kale chips into fine pieces and add them to popcorn! I am going to try this tonight!
You are going to have to buy tons of Kale because it really shrinks up a lot and everyone is going
to want plenty! I think you could add anything to the kale before you bake it as far as flavoring goes. I think these would be good choices: cayenne pepper, onion or garlic powder, brewer's yeast, cumin, chili powder, paprika or even curry powder. Enjoy!
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