Chips are popular all over the world and, despite the warnings of experts about the dangers of this product, from time to time even supporters of a healthy diet cannot resist buying packs of these crispy and flavorful plates of fried potatoes. Home-made chips are not much more useful than purchased ones, but still you can be sure of their quality and you don’t need to guess whether they used butter, which forms carcinogenic substances under the influence of high temperature. At home, you can make chips in the microwave. It will take quite a bit of time, will cost inexpensive.
Cooking Features
The principle of cooking chips in the microwave is simple: the product is cut into thin slices and dried. As a result, it becomes crispy even without roasting. With all the simplicity, the technology of making homemade chips has several subtleties that you need to know about to get the expected result.
- Chips can be made from any kind of vegetables and fruits. The thinner they are, the faster they will be cooked. You can adjust products using a special shredder or vegetable peeler. Some housewives cut food thinly with a knife. If you cut the potatoes or other vegetables too thick, they will not have time to dry inside before they burn them outside.
- Vegetables and fruit plates should be dried before frying in the microwave. They dry out faster if they are spread out on a towel that absorbs moisture, or get wet with a napkin.
- To make the chips more pleasant to taste before drying, they can be rolled in salt, pepper, dried herbs and other seasonings. For the preparation of sweet chips use powdered sugar and cinnamon.
- Prepare chips at a power of 600-800 watts. Cooking time ranges from 3 to 6 minutes depending on the installed cooking power, the product from which the chips are made, the thickness of the pieces. Some products after 2-3 minutes after the start of cooking is recommended to turn to the other side.
- To prevent chips from sticking to the plate, it is recommended to lay a parchment on it before laying out the products.
Ready-made chips are recommended to cool at room temperature before use. The product does not tolerate moisture, so it can be stored only in a dry place and for a short time (during the day) - homemade chips do not contain preservatives that increase the shelf life.
Buttered Potato Chips
Composition:
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the potatoes well, pat dry with a towel. If it is young, it can not be cleaned, large tubers must be cleaned, because their skin contains harmful solanine.
- Chop the potatoes into round or oval slices, fold them into a bowl.
- Mix salt, pepper and vegetable oil separately. Pour this mixture on potatoes, mix.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper on a dish suitable for use in the microwave.
- Put the potato slices on the parchment in one layer.
- Put the dish in the microwave. Set the power of 700 watts, turn on the microwave for 4 minutes. Check out the chips. If they have not dried yet, turn on the device for another 1-2 minutes.
- Remove the dish from the microwave, put the chips on a clean dish and let them cool.
In the same way, the remaining potato slices are fried in the microwave.
Butterless Potato Chips
Composition:
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- ground paprika - 5 g;
- dried parsley or other spicy herbs - 10 g;
- sea salt to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash potatoes and peel them, dry them with a napkin.
- Cut into thin circles or quarter circles if the tubers are large.
- Rinse with cool water to remove excess starch.
- Put it on a towel so that the potato pieces dry out faster.
- Put the potato slices in a bowl, sprinkle with paprika, salt and dried herbs, mix.
- Put the first batch of potato slices on parchment. Put in the microwave. Turn it on for 5 minutes at a power of 600-700 watts.
- Also dry the remaining potatoes.
The potato chips prepared according to this recipe are safer than many purchased ones, since they do not use butter and harmful preservatives.
Chips from Armenian lavash
Composition:
- Armenian lavash - 1 sheet;
- pepper, aromatic salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Expand the pita leaf, sprinkle it with pepper and salt.
- Roll up the pita bread roll, cut into 3 cm pieces.
- Unfold the pita strips, place them on top of each other, cut into squares or rhombuses.
- Spread the pieces of pita on the parchment, place in the microwave.
- Dry the pita for 3 minutes at medium power.
After that, it will remain to cool the chips and put them in a vase.
Cheese Chips
Composition:
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- Spicy herbs, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Chop grated cheese with small holes.
- Add spices and herbs, mix.
- Form flat cakes of about 2-3 cm in diameter from cheese.
- Spread the cheese cakes on the parchment, leaving a distance of at least 1 cm between them, as the cheese will melt and spread.
- Put the dish with the billet in a microwave, run it on medium power for 3 minutes.
- Leave for 5 minutes to cool the chips.
- Separate the chips from the parchment, put them on a plate and serve to the table.
Cheese chips are much healthier and tastier than potato chips. They should replace the usual snacks to those who can not refuse them, but seeks to healthy eating.
Carrot Chips
Composition:
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- salt, paprika, dried herbs - to taste;
- refined vegetable oil - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Scrape carrots, wash and blot with a napkin.
- Cut or chop the vegetable into thin slices, fold into a bowl.
- Mix oil with salt, paprika and herbs, mix.
- Put the chips on a parchment dish, put in the microwave.
- Turn on the unit at a power of 800-900 W for 2 minutes.
- Turn the chips over. Run the microwave on the same power for another 2 minutes.
If the maximum power of your microwave oven is less than that indicated in the recipe, increase the cooking time for carrot chips to 3 minutes on each side.
Apple Chips
Composition:
- apple - 0, 5 kg;
- icing sugar - 5 g;
- cinnamon - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apples; cut out seed boxes from them with a special device. Cut into thin round slices. If you do not have the aforementioned device, you can first cut the fruit into thin circles, then squeeze out the middle with the seeds with the help of a shot glass.
- Spread the apple slices on parchment, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon. If you only have sugar, grind it to a powder with a coffee grinder or blender.
- Place the container with apple slices in the microwave oven.
- Start the microwave on medium power, cook for 10 minutes.
Crispy apple chips will only be completely cooled.
If you like snacks, it is not necessary to buy this product of dubious quality in the store. Chips easy to cook in the microwave. Hand-made, they are much tastier and safer for health than purchased ones.
