Everyone loves crispy fried chips: children love to crunch on potato deliciousness in front of the TV, adults adore them as an excellent snack with beer.
Store-bought chips, as a rule, contain various harmful additives, flavors, GMOs, preservatives, etc. Homemade chips consist only of natural ingredients: potatoes, salt and vegetable oil, and therefore are absolutely harmless to the body.
Making chips at home is not difficult and the whole process only takes a few simple steps. Moreover, for this it is not necessary to have any special devices, such as a deep fryer. Homemade chips can be cooked in the oven, in the microwave, or in a regular frying pan.
Homemade chips recipes
One serving of potato chips, equal to about a small bag of store-bought chips, requires one medium-sized potato. The amount of oil is determined depending on the size of the container in which the chips will be cooked (its level should not exceed 2-3 cm). Add salt to chips to taste.
Ingredients:
- Medium sized potatoes;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt.
Homemade chips recipe in a frying pan
- Peel the potatoes and wash them thoroughly. Cut into thin circles. It’s better if you use a vegetable cutter for this - it’s more convenient, and the circles for the chips turn out more or less the same.
- Place the slices on a towel to dry a little.
- Pour oil into a deep frying pan (cauldron, thick-walled pan) and bring it to a boil.
- Throw the dried slices one at a time into the boiling oil so that they do not come into contact with each other. Stir the chips slightly using a wooden spatula.
- We determine the readiness of the chips by their color (they should be golden, not brown) and by the characteristic tapping sound of the chips when stirred.
- Remove the chips to a plate covered with a napkin or paper towel to drain off excess vegetable oil.
- Then, while the chips are still hot, add salt to taste.
Classic natural potato chips are ready. However, if you don't want to deal with boiling oil, you can cook the chips in the oven.
Homemade Oven Chips Recipe
- Dry the washed and thinly sliced potatoes on a paper towel.
- Place the resulting circles in a deep plate or salad bowl and sprinkle with about 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil.
- Add a little salt and gently mix the chips so that the oil is evenly distributed over the entire surface, but without breaking the slices.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and grease with vegetable oil.
- Place the potato wedges in one layer on the surface of the baking sheet so that they do not touch each other.
- Place in an oven heated to 180-200 degrees and bake until golden brown.
- Place the finished chips on a paper towel. If necessary, sprinkle with more spices and salt.
This recipe uses less vegetable oil than when cooking chips in a frying pan. If you want to completely avoid adding oil to chips (for example, if you are making chips for children), cook them in the microwave.
Homemade chips recipe in the microwave
- Dry the peeled and thinly sliced potatoes a little on a paper napkin.
- Place the prepared potato slices on special baking paper, making sure that they do not touch each other.
- We set the power on the microwave to about 600-750 W (we can’t exactly recommend it, it all depends on the type of microwave), and cook for about 5-7 minutes.
- When the chips are browned, immediately take them out and place them on a wide plate.
- Add salt and spices to taste to the still hot chips.
Chips cooked in a microwave oven will not be inferior in taste to those cooked in an oven or frying pan, but they are much healthier and safer for children. And they are made much faster and easier.
Homemade chips - cooking features
- For homemade chips, choose only even and smooth “ideal” potatoes. If you cut out “eyes” and other defects, the chips will turn out uneven and ugly.
- After cutting, it is best to rinse potato slices in cold water to remove excess starch. Then the chips will not stick to each other when frying.
- To prevent the finished chips from sticking to the plate, I use baking paper as a “bedding” for the chips. As a last resort, sprinkle the plate with a thin layer of flour.
- The taste of homemade chips is not pronounced compared to store-bought ones, since they do not contain flavorings. However, you can add spices to your taste: paprika, a mixture of spicy or Provençal herbs, etc. If you know other natural seasonings for homemade chips, share this discovery with us.
Making homemade chips is a rather lengthy process and therefore it is necessary to make them only when you have enough free time.
