Do not know how to please the home? Everything is tired, and it seems that it is already impossible to surprise guests? Beet chips come to the rescue. From the most ordinary red beets, which are placed in borsch. It is very likely that they have not seen this before and have not tried it. A beetroot crunch is not only tasty, but also much more useful than potato. You can eat vegetable chips with yogurt and sour cream, sprinkled with any spices and spices, but you can not season with anything - it will be much more useful.
Beet Chips
What you need to take:
- 400 g of beets;
- a quarter teaspoon of ground dried garlic;
- four tablespoons of olive oil;
- a teaspoon of dried rosemary;
- salt.
Order of preparation:
- Turn on the oven and let it warm to 150 degrees.
- While it is warming, you need to prepare the products: ground dried garlic, mix with dried rosemary and salt and grind it all in a spice mill.
- Peel and cut the beets as thin as possible in circles - approximately 1 mm.
- Grease the beetroot mugs with olive oil and mix well.
- Lay baking paper in two layers on a baking sheet. Spread beet mugs on it and sprinkle them with a ground seasoning mixture.
- Put in the oven for 15 minutes, not forgetting to monitor their readiness, since the cooking time may be slightly different. Then turn over and keep the same amount.
Remove the beet chips from the oven and allow them to cool completely. After that, you can shift on a plate and carry to treat relatives or friends.
Carrot and Beet Chips
To prepare three servings of this delicious snack, you will need the following ingredients:
- two small beets;
- two medium carrots;
- a tablespoon of Italian or French herbs;
- a tablespoon of olive oil;
- two teaspoons of shallow salt.
How to do:
- Rinse beets and carrots under running water using a brush, wipe dry with a towel. The peel does not need to be cleaned.
- Cut beets and carrots as thinly as possible. To do this, you need a very sharp knife with a wide blade or a special grater.
- Turn on the oven and let it warm to 180 degrees.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment for baking, grease it with a brush with vegetable oil.
- Lay out the beets and carrots on the baking sheet tightly to each other, grease the top with oil using a silicone brush and put in the oven. We'll have to bake the chips in several passes.
- The approximate baking time is 15 minutes on each side, but this time can be different, so you need to monitor the vegetables so that they do not burn. A sign of readiness is a decrease in size, darkening, wrinkled appearance.
Remove the prepared chips from the oven, wait until they have completely cooled and sprinkle with a dry mixture of herbs. If desired, you can sprinkle them with ground paprika. Crisps can be dipped in natural yogurt mixed with chopped garlic and aromatic herbs.
Deep-fried
Beetroot chips can be deep-fried. To do this, you need a deep fryer, but if it is not, you can do with a conventional pan.
Procedure:
- Wash the beets, peel, cut into thin circles with a sharp knife or a peeler. Optionally cut into circles, or with slices or slices.
- Pour vegetable oil into a small pot so that it fills it in ¼ part. Put on fire and heat. Dip the beetroots (or circles) in a pan with hot oil, fry until cooked, then remove and lay on a paper towel so that excess fat is absorbed into it.
- Ready-made chips can be sprinkled with salt, pepper, and other seasonings. But you can absolutely not sprinkle anything. Beetroot chips are sweet.
With balsamic vinegar
Another unusual recipe for beet chips. To prepare this dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- beet;
- olive oil (30 ml);
- ground paprika;
- honey (50 ml);
- balsamic vinegar (100 ml);
- salt.
Order of preparation:
- Wash and peel the beets, thinly cut with a knife (using a grater or vegetable cutter) into circles so that the thickness does not exceed two millimeters.
- Put the beets in a container, such as a pan, pour in a little olive oil, add paprika, salt to taste and mix. This must be done carefully so as not to break the circles.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment and lay the beetroots on it.
- Place the pan in the oven preheated to 160 degrees for 30 minutes.
- During beetroot baking, the oven door needs to be slightly opened (if there is a blow function, then set to 30%, then the door does not need to be opened) to ensure air circulation.
- After half an hour, you need to get a baking sheet with future chips and turn them on the other side, reduce the temperature in the oven to 120 degrees, leaving the fan settings the same, and keep another 20 minutes. The process needs to be controlled, since everyone has different ovens. Chips should never be overexposed, otherwise they will be inedible.
- While the beets are cooked, you need to make the sauce. Put balsamic vinegar on the stove and evaporate to half the volume, i.e. 50 ml should be obtained from 100 ml. It is recommended to do this with the window open. When the vinegar evaporates, remove it from the stove and cool to 40 degrees. After that, add honey to it and mix until smooth (40 degrees - the optimum temperature for dissolving honey). You can add ground allspice and a little salt to the sauce, but this is optional.
Remove ready-made chips from the oven and cool. Pour the sauce (thin stream) immediately before serving or put it in a separate bowl, so that chips can be dipped. Cooked according to this recipe, they turn out to be sweet-salty, crispy and tasty. The main thing is that this dish is unusual.
Tips
Beet chips are recommended to be cooked at a temperature of 180 degrees: first bake for about 20 minutes, then turn over and cook for another 10-15 minutes. Serve them best with goat cheese dipping sauce.
Carrot chips require a different approach. Before laying out raw carrot slices on a baking sheet, pour them with a mixture of orange natural juice (1 tbsp.), Ground cinnamon and nutmeg and mix. Then put in the oven, heated to 120 degrees, for 45 minutes (until the crust appears).
Conclusion
Beetroot dish is quite small. Only borsch, cold beetroot, vinaigrette and raw vegetable salad come to mind. Home-made beet chips can serve as a dessert or a snack.