Homemade chips are the best ways to prepare them. How to properly cook chips at home.

Homemade chips - general cooking principles

How do you feel about chips? Most likely, if you have tried them at least once, the answer will be: “They are very tasty, but harmful!” No wonder. As biologists have proven, the human body is “programmed” to maintain weight, and therefore, a priori, we taste high-calorie, fatty and filling food. Perhaps there are no people who can resist a sweet cream cake (those who consider themselves to have a sweet tooth) or fried meat or poultry (those who do not honor sweets). Chips are one example of such food, and your preferences have nothing to do with it. If you've tried store-bought chips at least once, you know they're delicious! But something else is also true - industrially produced chips are quite harmful. The fact is that to prepare them, potatoes are not only fried in a large amount of oil, which is not very good for our body, but then they are also actively sprinkled with monosodium glutamate. This component is a taste enhancer, that is, it is tasteless in itself, but it greatly enhances our gastronomic sensations. That's why children love crackers and chips so much and can eat them without measure.

This is not to say that homemade chips can be made very healthy. Still, fried potatoes are a mixture of carbohydrates and fat, which is not very good for your waistline. But if you enjoy it little by little and not in the evening, then why not? In addition, we will offer you lavash chips, a low-calorie crispy treat, and cheese chips. You can also try making a carrot or zucchini snack.

Homemade chips - food and utensil preparation

By and large, any housewife can make homemade chips. You don’t need complex kitchen appliances - not everyone has a deep fryer, but a regular frying pan, oven or microwave is found in almost every home. But a paring knife will be very useful and necessary in making chips. Such a thing costs no more than 40-50 rubles (15-20 UAH), but it makes life much easier for cooks. This knife is very convenient for peeling vegetables and fruits and cutting vegetables very thinly. Without this knife, it will be practically impossible to cut chips very thinly. You can buy such a useful “thing” in a store or at the market.

Chips are most often made from potatoes, so in most of the proposed recipes it will be the main and almost the only ingredient. What about spices? After all, chips come with bacon, chicken or cheese? That's right, because you will also need aromatic salt - there are a huge variety of such additives on the store shelf, you can choose according to your taste. But remember that such an ingredient contains a flavor enhancer, which we talked about above, and therefore you can eat much more chips with such salt than without it.

Homemade chips recipes:

Recipe 1: Homemade Potato Chips

The simplest chips are, of course, those that are prepared with a minimum amount of effort and time. You will need a regular frying pan, a stove and a paring knife to turn the potatoes into thin slices. Of course, if you compare homemade chips with those in a pack, the difference is visible to the naked eye. And yet the recipe is good, and the dish turns out excellent - either as an additive to beer, or as a separate delicacy. Before use, cool to room temperature.

Required ingredients:

Potatoes 5-6 tubers
Aromatic salt
Refined vegetable oil

Cooking method:

Wash the potatoes, peel them, and cut them into thin slices, best using a vegetable peeler. The thickness of the slice should be about 2 mm.

After this, place the potato mugs in water for five minutes, after this period of time we drain the water and fill it again with clean water. We continue this procedure until the potatoes become transparent and the water stops turning white. This procedure helps wash out all the starch from the potatoes.

Heat a frying pan and pour in one centimeter of oil. Place the mugs of chips so that they do not touch.

Fry the potato slices on both sides, then place them on a plate, sprinkle generously with salt and let cool.

Recipe 2: Homemade chips in the microwave

Is it possible to make chips as diet chips? It’s possible if we make them in the microwave. To prepare this dish we don’t need any oil at all.

Required ingredients:

Potatoes 5-6 tubers
Aromatic salt

Cooking method:

Wash the potatoes with their skins, peel them, and then use a paring knife to cut them into very thin circles. We repeat the procedure to wash out the starch - fill the slices with water several times until it becomes transparent.

Let the potatoes dry - spread them on paper or regular towels and leave for ten minutes. Add some salt.

Place the chips on a plate so that they are not touching and cook for eight minutes at 900 W. To ensure the dish is fried more evenly, you can turn the slices over, but even without this, the chips will turn out tasty and crispy, without being at all greasy.

Recipe 3: Homemade chips in the oven

If you don’t have a microwave, but you want to “lighten” the chips and minimize oil consumption, then use the oven to prepare the dish.

Required ingredients:

Potato
Aromatic salt
Refined sunflower oil

Cooking method:

Prepare the potatoes as in the previous recipe. Don't forget to dry it with paper towels.

Place dry potatoes in a deep container, sprinkle with oil and salt. Leave the potato slices for 10-15 minutes to soak.

Place the chips on the baking deck without greasing them with oil so that they do not touch. Place in the oven to dry for fifteen minutes at a temperature of two hundred degrees. Don't forget to keep an eye on the potatoes, because depending on the type of oven you have, the dish may burn.

Recipe 4: Homemade Lavash Chips

When you eat a bag of store-bought chips, can you be sure that you are eating potatoes? We bet not! Chips are something thin and crispy, with the aroma of mushrooms or jellied meat, but the potatoes are practically unnoticeable. We offer you a delicious recipe for lavash chips - they will taste exactly like everyone’s favorite “crunchies” from the package, and only you will know the secret of this dish.

Required ingredients:

Armenian thin lavash
Fresh dried dill
Olive oil
Garlic 3 cloves

Cooking method:

Wash the dill and use the mode finely and finely, mix with oil and salt. Add garlic squeezed through a press and mix.

We cut the pita bread into chips and brush each piece with the dill mixture.

Place the chips on a baking sheet and dry them in the oven at 200 degrees for no more than five to six minutes. That's all!

By the way, to make the chips fatter, you can grease them with a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic or a small amount of sour cream.

Recipe 5: Homemade Mashed Potato Chips

This unusual snack will appeal to both adults and children. True, to prepare them you will need a waffle iron, and another “tool” will not work here, but the chips will turn out tasty, crispy and unusual.

Required ingredients:

Potatoes 4-5 tubers
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
4 tablespoons flour
Salt and spices
Oil (for greasing the waffle iron)

Cooking method:

Peel the potatoes, use the setting and cook on the stove in a saucepan as for regular mashed potatoes. Grind with a masher into a homogeneous mass - the puree should be of uniform consistency, without lumps.

Add the egg, flour and milk to the puree (slightly cooled) and mix with a blender. The resulting mass should resemble cream and be quite thin, but not liquid, otherwise the “batter” will leak out of the waffle iron.

Add salt and spices to the potatoes to taste. You can take aromatic salt from the store, or you can use dried peppers, mushrooms, and herbs.

You can use the simplest waffle iron from Soviet times. Heat it and grease it with oil. The oil must be refined and odorless. Olive oil is also not suitable.

Place a tablespoon of potato “dough” on the surface, lightly spread and bake. Please note that the chips burn very quickly, and therefore they need to be baked for no more than thirty to forty seconds, after which open the lid and remove them with a knife.

You can sprinkle the finished potato chips with a little more salt and flavoring. If you want to give these chips a store-bought look, then place half a tablespoon of “dough” on the surface of the waffle iron, and place the finished chips on a rolling pin, then they will turn out exactly like those from a pack of Pringles or Layz.

Recipe 6: Homemade Cheese Chips

It doesn’t matter whether you love cheese or are indifferent to it, cheese chips will surprise you and be remembered as a tasty and satisfying snack. By the way, you can make such chips from stale cheese - for example, you have a piece of cheese in the refrigerator for a week that no one eats, but it’s a pity to throw it away. Well, let’s put it to work!

Required ingredients:

Hard cheese

Cooking method:

We grate the cheese on a fine grater and place it in small piles on the baking deck. You need to place it so that the “piles”, when melted, do not connect with each other - that is, at a sufficient distance from each other.

Place the deck with cheese in the oven and leave for four to six minutes at a temperature of one hundred and sixty degrees. The process of melting the cheese is very fast, and therefore the chips must be taken out as soon as a brown crust appears, otherwise the cheese will burn. That's all. Cool and serve.

By the way, these chips can be prepared with anything - for example, add carbonated cheese or sausage, herbs, garlic, bread crumbs. It will be difficult to guess what these “crunchies” are made of, but they have a wonderful taste.

Homemade chips - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs

We are used to the fact that chips are a potato dish, and not a particularly healthy one. Let's break the stereotype, because chips can be made from carrots, zucchini, and blueberries without a drop of oil! Prepare this dish using the homemade potato chips recipe in the microwave. Wash the vegetables, cut them with a vegetable peeler, then add salt and fry in the microwave for about eight to ten minutes. These colorful chips will appeal to both children and adults with beer.

You can sprinkle the chips with aromatic salt from a pack, or you can mix garlic, dill, parsley with regular table salt (just use “extra”, very fine salt) - and you will get a harmless seasoning.