Friday, October 7, 2011

Kale Chips

This year I planted more Kale than I know what to do with! I'm very lucky to have a kind neighbour who has been letting me use her dehydrator to make Kale chips. (in exchange she gets half of them!) Kale Chips are a delicious, nutritious and convenient way to keep your Kale all winter long. Unfortunately they're so good, they get eaten very quickly!

If you don't have a dehydrator, you can use the recipe in the oven with the oven door slightly ajar. It takes a lot longer and you may have to put the temperature up a bit. I have never tried this but going by what I've heard, it's almost the same results.

Ingredients

30-40 kale leaves
one orange (squeezed for juice)
1/3 cup raw cashews (soaked for at least 30 minutes, use water that cashews were soaked in)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of nutritional yeast
optional- additional seasoning of choice

Wash and tear kale into chip size pieces and put in large bowl. Take the rest of ingredients and blend together until smooth liquid. Pour over Kale and make sure all Kale gets coated with dressing. Spread evenly over 4 trays and spacing them out (if you have the 9 tray dehydrator)
Put temperature at 110 Celsius for 8 hours, Flip over and continue for another 4-6 hours.

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