Kale Chips

Kale has been coming up a lot when referring to healthy food options. I kept hearing about kale chips, and decided I would give them a try. I had never tasted kale before this, so I had absolutely no expectations about the flavour. I assumed it would taste sort of like spinach. I looked up a bunch of kale chip recipes and they are all very similar just varying amounts of ingredients and oven temperatures. It would be pretty hard to mess up this extremely easy snack.

Ingredients:

-1 bunch of kale

-1.5 tbsp e.v.o.o.

-sea salt (the amount is up to you, I used about a tsp)

-lemon juice (you can use anywhere from a sprinkle to half a lemon, I used 1/4)

1. Heat oven to 275 degrees

2. Tear kale away from stems. Each stalk should yield about 8 pieces or so, think chip sized chunks. Wash and dry. It is very important to get as much moisture off the kale as possible. I wash mine and leave it in the fridge overnight.

3. Add olive oil, salt and fresh lemon juice. Mix with your hands until kale is evenly coated.

4. Bake on a baking tray covered in parchment paper for 25-30 mins. You can check if it's crispy enough around 25 mins, if not leave it in for another 5 mins.

The lemon and salt together make these just the right combination of tangy and salty. They get very crunchy and really do satisfy that craving for a chip type salty snack. Just without the super high amount of sodium, and they aren't fried so fat content is low. Just beware, a whole bunch of kale only makes a cereal bowl full of chips and you will want to eat them all!

Kale chips just out of the oven

Ready to eat!