Kinky Kale Chips

Darlene Navarre’s Family Not-Secret Recipe Kinky Kale Chips Recipes
If you love potato chips, tortilla chips or any salty crispy processed food than you are going to love these!

I am going to give you our secret family recipe for turning this plain-wayne kale:


Into this delicious, crispy, salty snack we call Kinky Kale Chips quickly, easily and deliciously:

First you need to get yourself a dehydrator. You can get one at a yard sale, on Craigslist or pick on below. I have heard you can use an oven on the lowest temperature of 170 degrees F. However, if it is your intention to eat a raw diet and/or you would like the Kinky Kale Chips to be the healthiest snack possible, then a dehydrating them at 110 degrees would be the best!
BTW, my favorite dehydrator is the 9 tray Excalibur and I also have the 10 tray GOOD4U one as well, they both work great and it all depends on your budget.

 

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Second, once you have yourself a dehydrator it is time to play with your food and get your hands into it! Buy yourself 2-4 bunches of kale. I find that the more the better because you might as well fill her up, these chips are so good you will want more! It is important, if you have assess to organic kale or any other leafy greens, that they are organic. Organic greens contain the minerals still, flavor and contain no pesticides (something I am certain it is best to live without).

Once you have the purchased the kale break it up into large pieces around 1-2 inches (remember this is fun don’t worry about the measurements so much), make sure to take the leaves off the stems like so:

3. Blend the sauce up! Here are 3 Kinky Kale Dressings:

Ravenous Ranch Kinky Kale Chips Dressing

  • 1/8 cup soaked almonds
  • 1/8 cup pecans
  • (optional) Nut-free dressing, use 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds instead
  • 2 tablespoons of lemon juice or coconut vinegar
  • 1 large slice of onion
  • 1 celery stalk
  • 1 tablespoons of dill
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 garlic clove
  • Stevia to taste
  • (optional) 1/8 teaspoon of Chipotle spice
  • enough water to blend

Makes enough for 2 bunches of kale
Calories: 332
Carbs: 47%, Fat: 40%, Protein 13%

Pineapple Mango BBQ Kinky Kale Chips Dressing

  • 1/2 mango
  • 6 sun-dried tomatoes
  • 1/4 red bell pepper
  • 3 Roma Tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup pineapple
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon BBQ seasoning or 1/2 teaspoon mesquite power
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 2 teaspoons of dried basil (sub fresh if you like)
  • Stevia to taste
  • sea salt if you like

Makes enough for at least 2 bunches of kale
Calories: 322
Carbs:79%, Fat:9%, Protein 12%

Mexican Enchilada Kinky Kale Chips Dressing

  • 5 sun-dried tomatoes
  • 3 Roma Tomatoes
  • 3 tablespoons of lemon juice or coconut vinegar
  • 1/2 mango
  • 1/4 red bell pepper
  • 3/4 teaspoon cumin
  • (optional)1/4 teaspoon of raw chocolate or carob
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • dried Chipolte powder to taste and heat
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • Stevia to taste
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Makes enough for at least 2 bunches of Kale
Calories: 298
Carbs: 78%, Fat: 9%, Protein:13%

4. This part gets messy and playful! In a large bowl pour the dressing on top of the broken up kale and start messaging it into every piece of kale, making sure the dressing is covering every piece throughly.

5. Dehydrate: spread out the sauce kale onto Teff Flex dehydrator sheets. Teff Flex sheets are food safe plastic sheet so they won’t get the mess sheets so dirty, you will need to order them as well if they don’t come with your dehydrator or you can always us parchment paper as well. You them out so they are a bit separated and thinly place like this:

Dehydrate them for 2-4 hours on the Teff Flex sheets on 105-115 degrees F. and then take them, off and turn them over until they are all dry. The low fat one will take more time to dehydrate and the nut or seed dressing ones will be done quicker.

6. Now what you have been awaiting for is here…. EAT!
Yummy in the tummy and you won’t even believe they are good for you too!

 

Enjoy! Darlene Navarre :)

Tagged as: Raw Dehydrated Recipes