You can cook chips not only from potatoes, but from other vegetables, such as carrots. They will be a good snack during the day. If you bake carrot chips in the oven or microwave, they will be much more useful than those that are deep-fried. Their calorie content will be significantly lower.
General cooking tips
The recipe for carrot chips is very simple, but you need to know some subtleties.
It is important to choose the right variety of carrots. Not all are suitable for such a dish. For example, succulent varieties are not suitable, from such root crops crunches are not obtained.
As experts advise, it is best to choose varieties that can lie for a long time. Such carrots can dry sufficiently during storage. Therefore, it is recommended to take vegetables from last year's crop for chips.
In addition, it is important to be able to finely chop them, then the chips will definitely be crispy.
To give carrot chips a new taste and aroma, you can use herbs and other seasonings. In this case, basil, rosemary, ground black pepper, ground pepper, thyme, oregano, sage are well suited.
You can cook carrot chips in the microwave.
In the oven
It is necessary to take based on one carrot:
- a tablespoon of vegetable oil;
- a quarter teaspoon of basil and rosemary;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- salt.
Cooking Rules:
- Rinse the carrots thoroughly in water, scrape the surface with a knife so that there are no contaminants.
- Cut root vegetables into thin circles. It’s best to do this with a slicer, but if it’s not there, an ordinary but sharp knife with a thin blade will do.
- Fill the carrots in a bowl, sprinkle with salt, pepper, a mixture of herbs, add oil and mix, being careful not to break the mugs.
- If water appears in the bowl after mixing, it must be drained.
- Put baking paper or parchment on a baking sheet, then put the circles of carrots in one layer so that they do not climb on top of each other.
- Turn on the oven at a temperature of 100 degrees, put the baking sheet in the oven and keep in it for about an hour and a half. During this time, they need to be flipped once. At the oven, you can slightly open the door and make sure that they do not burn.
Ready-made carrot chips should crunch and be dry, not soft.
Sprinkle with spices and salt ready-made chips.
In the microwave
In the microwave, the cooking time of carrot chips will be significantly reduced and you will not need olive oil, so it will be easier to cook them.
It is better to choose a thick carrot for a microwave, because the mugs will greatly decrease in size. Cut the same way as for the oven - with thin slices using a sharp knife or a special device.
Arrange mugs of carrots on a microwave plate and sprinkle with spices and herbs, such as French or Provence. Put in the microwave oven for 7-15 minutes at maximum power. The time depends on the power of the device. After this time, take out a plate with chips and stir them up with your hands, until they are completely dry. You can try it after about five minutes - by this time they should already be crispy.
In the microwave, you can make carrot chips with olive or other vegetable oil. To do this, cover the plate with parchment, lay the slices and use a brush to apply oil on them. You can, before stacking, put them in a bowl, drizzle with oil, salt, throw fragrant herbs and ground red pepper, mix, then lay on a plate with parchment so that they do not touch each other. Put the plate in the microwave oven for 2-3 minutes, setting the power to 900 watts before that. Then get a plate, turn the chips over and put on for another 2-3 minutes. Then it remains only to shift them to a plate and you can begin to take samples.
Conclusion
Potato chips can also be cooked in the oven. Such crunchies will be an excellent substitute for shopping, and especially for children.