Kale Chips: DIY healthy junk food

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Source

http://www.grist.org/column/ask-umbra

Prep time30 minutes

Description

Grist's Ask Umbra says:
In Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, rule No. 39 is, “Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.” DIY junk food! Ask Umbra shows you how to make a healthier version of potato chips—with no potatoes at all. They’re kale chips! And they’re delicious and rich in vitamin C, beta carotene, and calcium.
Watch the video here:
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-30-ask-umbras-diy-healthy-junk-food...

Ingredients

  • 2
    bn
    kale (see note)
  • 1
    T
    olive oil
  • 1
    t
    sea salt, or to taste
  • 2
    T
    nutritional yeast (optional)

Instructions

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Strip the kale off the stems, and tear it up into chip-sized pieces.
Coat the kale in olive oil.
Add salt to taste.
Optional: Add nutritional yeast for flavor.
Massage the kale and spread ingredients evenly throughout.
Place on a cookie sheet. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
Remove from the oven, and flip the chips over. Place back in for 10 minutes. And voila!

Notes

Selecting Kale: choose Tuscan/dinosaur kale for a slightly more bitter chip or curly kale for a slightly sweeter chip.

And you can watch the Ask Umbra’s DIY healthy junk food: Kale chips video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXXGDISnOg&feature=player_embedded

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