My son Lucian is insanely addicted to kale chips. You ask, "How do you get a child to eat kale?". Well, tear up a lacinato (or "dinosaur") kale into pieces, sprinkle with olive oil, either celtic sea salt or himalayan rock salt and we like to add some nutritional yeast. Mix it all together with your hands and spread them out on your dehydrator racks overnight. He can't keep his hands off of them in the morning. Follow below for the official recipe. He made the last batch all by himself (yes, the food prodigy is 3 1/2!) and ate them all up in 1 day. My photog friend Caroline Sorgen Kaye took a beautiful artistic shot of his creation which will be included in my book!
LoveSprout's Kale Chips
1 bunch Lacinata or "Dinosaur" kale
1/4 cup cold pressed olive oil
1 Tbsp. celtic sea salt or himalayan rock salt
2 or 3 Tbsp. nutritional yeast
Tear the kale up into pieces. Drizzle the olive oil, salt and yeast onto the kale and mix well with your hands. Get down and dirty. If you have a dehydrator, spread kale on trays and dehydrate overnight (or 8-10 hours) at 115 degrees fahrenheit. If you don't have a dehydrator, spread kale onto cookie sheets and place in oven at lowest setting (150 to 200 degrees?) with the oven door slightly ajar. Heat until kale gets crisp like chips and voila!
The chips come out very light and very crisp. I've even gotten the most finicky of eaters to down handfuls of them! One can easily chomp an entire bunch of kale in one day!
I'll update my pregnancy tomorrow. Let's just say that baby is still flipping around and I need a chiropractic adjustment from all the movement! Yikes! I did make it to the lake to swim today though and that was pure heaven.
xoxo
1 comment:
YUM!!!! we've tried them with a nut cheeze of cashews, bells, lemon, salt, and nutritional yeast. sophia and omar-sol are addicted as well.
can't wait to get back to our dehydrator and try your recipe.
yours in green health :)
marla
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