Kale Chips

Kale is coming into season. Here’s a yummy, kid-friendly Kale Chips Snack Recipe!

I love the fact that 2 out of my 3 kids (Spud is hopeless) and husband love kale. After all, it’s a GREAT good food! It’s loaded with vitamins A, C and K and full of calcium, iron, fiber and a little protein. But as you know, it’s a little strange looking and can be a “scary” vegetable. I mean, Kale, it’s a little funny looking and intimidating because it doesn’t exactly scream “ Eat me!” So how did I turn my family into kale lovers?

There are three ingredients: Olive oil, salt and a really EXCITED, nonchalant mother.

Here’s how it all happened:

Last year, I threw some kale down onto the kitchen counter top: “ Hey  what do you think of this?” My daughter came over to inspect, touched the leaves with the tip of her finger  and took a few steps back. “What is it?” I shrugged my shoulders and said “ kale.”  Then I turned away to finish with the groceries.

Naturally, because she’s 7,  questions followed such as “ what is it again?” “what does it do?” “why do the leaves feel so tough?” among other things….my response was “ I think it’s one of the tastiest vegetables out there!  I mean, I could eat it all day! In fact, I think I’m going to make smoothies and chips out of it and then enjoy them all by myself”. The girl took the bait and her brother and sister followed: They were not in for the smoothies ( turns out I don’t blame them because they were gross) but they were in for the chip making. It’s so terribly easy and you WILL BE ADDICTED!!

Kale Chips

Ingredients:

• 1 head of kale
• Olive oil
• Kosher salt

Directions:

1. Preheat 400
2. Peel the kale off of the stalks, breaking them into pieces as you go.
3. Wash the kale and spread it out on a baking sheet.
4. Drizzle olive oil over the kale.
5. Sprinkle with salt.
6. Bake in the oven for 10-20 min.
7. Check the chip often to make sure they don’t burn. They should shrivel up.
8. When they crisp,and are just starting to brown, take out and eat them!

They are best right out of the oven! Sometimes I serve them with chicken or fish and the kids get to eat “chips” with dinner. So tricky. Haha!

* Note: If they sit to long, I find they don’t taste as good.