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It's mid-August, yesterday there was an apple saved. There are a lot of apples this year, at least in our Chernihiv region. However, as far as I can remember, there have been practically no problems with the apple harvest in my native village. In the second half of August, my mother always started harvesting apples for the winter: apple juice was pressed in liters, compotes, preserves, jam were cooked and rolled up, apple slices were dried on the stove (we call the resulting dried fruit "scrygli", do you?).

In general, in our family they continue to do this even now. Jam and jam from the white filling have already been prepared and rolled up, my husband will go to squeeze the juice next weekend. Jams, juices, compotes - all this is very good, but somehow ... standard, or something. A kind of mandatory program that everyone who harvests apples for the winter follows. But what if you go beyond the trivial and cook ... apple chips?

I must admit that sometime before the beginning of 2000, I did not even know such miracles as apple chips. In the village, apples were always simply dried on the oven on a huge scale. Each house had whole bags of dried apples, which were later used mainly for cooking compote. I first tasted apple chips, probably ten years ago. I noticed it in the store, got interested, bought it, tried it - both I and my sons really liked it. In winter, sitting in front of the TV or computer in the evening, chewing instead of sunflower seeds is just that.

However, as I remember now, the purchased apple chips were not cheap. Naturally, as a family responsible for food, the question arose before me - how to cook apple chips at home? Fortunately, the task was not difficult. Without using anybody's recipes (we didn't smell like the Internet at that time, no one had ever cooked anything like this among friends-acquaintances), I decided to try it myself - fortunately, the apples were still piled up, it’s not a pity to spoil it. But I didn't spoil anything: the apple chips I made with my own hands turned out to be no worse than the store ones.

My joy knew no bounds: another cool recipe for homemade apples in my pocket. Since then I've been making apple chips every year. I try to cook as much as possible, but the chips still don't live up to winter - children sweep them away in a moment.

Interesting? Then I'll tell you how to make apple chips at home. However, there is absolutely nothing complicated and tricky there.

Making apple chips at home

Ingredients

• whole apples, unpeeled - 6 pcs. (0.5 kg);
• spices (cinnamon, sugar, lemon juice) - to taste.

How to make apple chips in the oven

The first thing to do is wash the apples. Wash, but never peel. The apples, along with the peel and core, must be cut into as thin slices as possible. I used to do it with a knife, the slices were quite thick. Now I use a special grater for fruits and vegetables - the slices are very thin. The thinner the better.

We set the oven to warm up to 110 degrees. By the way, I have never tried making apple chips on an ordinary rustic oven - I think it will turn out no worse. So, we put the oven to warm up, cover the baking sheet with non-stick baking paper (otherwise the apples will dry on the baking sheet), carefully lay out the apple slices. Laying does not need to overlap, but each slice separately. This is the only difficulty: if the oven is small, then you won't be able to make a lot of chips at once. That is why this year I plan to try my recipe in the rustic oven.

We bake our apple chips for about 2 hours at 110 degrees. In the middle of baking, turn the chips. In general, the exact baking time depends on the thickness of the slices. I cut with a special grater, the slices are very thin, and therefore the chips reach condition in literally 1 hour. However, if cut with a knife, the slices will be thicker and will take longer to bake.

You can sprinkle the apple chips with spices such as cinnamon or sugar before baking.

Actually, that's all - the apple chips are ready. I think that you can store them for a long time, but I don't know for sure - we have them for more than a month or two, no matter how much you cook :)

I hope you enjoy my simple apple chips recipe. Whoever has the opportunity to cook them not in a home oven, but in a real oven - be sure to try it, because then you can cook a lot of chips. If you cook at home, it still turns out to be expensive: getting apples is not a problem, but heating an electric oven all day is not a cheap pleasure. By the way, there are special devices for drying vegetables, fruits and mushrooms - perhaps they can also be used to make chips, but I have not tried it.

Healthy chips: cook at home. Delicious potato and apple chips in the microwave, oven.

In the composition of store chips and preservatives, and additives from which one harm.
Such food can be harmful for adults, but for children it is generally contraindicated. But is this a reason to refuse a tasty treat? If you can cook it yourself.

At the same time, a good housewife knows that homemade chips cooked in a deep fat fryer are not much different from the store counterpart. Is that the absence of harmful seasonings and preservatives.
This article contains delicious and healthy potato chips recipes for the whole family.

Note that chips cooked in the microwave and oven can be given to children from one year old!

Truly a treat for the whole family!

Potato chips: preparation, slicing

Chips are potatoes. And despite the fact that chips are made with other ingredients, potato is the most popular.

Before moving on to recipes, you need to prepare the raw materials. Potatoes must be of certain varieties:

• Lady Rosetta
• Saturn
• Karlena
• Pyrol
• Verdi
• Fantasy

But it is possible to use other varieties if they meet these requirements: when cleaning it is dry, does not crumble during boiling, round in shape (then the shape of the finished chips will correspond to the store as much as possible), with shallow eyes.

Also, the correct cutting is necessary for the preparation of chips.
A knife will not work in this case, since even the most experienced cook will not be able to cut potatoes into thin plates of equal thickness.
This will require shredder or grater... Cabbage shredder or special for potato chips.

Video: Well, Delicious Homemade Chips!

Potato chips for a picnic: a recipe

Favorite delicacy of children in nature. For a "bag" of chips, you will need 4 potatoes, a liter of water, 2 tbsp of soy sauce. spoons, flour 3 tbsp. spoons, half a liter of oil for frying.

The simplest recipe.

• Chop potatoes
• Pour it with a marinade of water, sauce and salt
• Leave for an hour
• Prepare paper towels and spread them evenly
• Dry
• Roll in flour and send to a deep fryer

After frying, discard in a colander to drain off excess fat. Bon Appetit!

Homemade chips in the oven: recipe

• Peel the potatoes, cut into even thin slices and rinse under running water to rinse the starch out of the cuts as much as possible.
• Arrange evenly on paper towels and pat dry. Dried potatoes cook faster, are golden brown and do not crumble.
• Grease baking sheets with oil. Optionally, grease with warmed butter.
• Arrange the potatoes in one layer.
• Sprinkle the surface of the potatoes with oil. If desired, you can add dry spices to the oil, you get chips "with the taste" of herbs, paprika, cheese, etc.
• Bake at 260 ºC for 15-25 minutes depending on thickness.

Spread on paper towels to get rid of excess oil. If desired, you can add salt. It is not recommended to add salt during baking.

Homemade potato chips in the microwave: recipe

These chips are without oil and salt. Such crunches are an excellent snack even for the smallest children. For cooking, you only need potatoes. If desired, sprinkle with salt and seasonings to your liking at the end.

• Wash the potatoes with a brush, there is no need to peel them.
• If you like chips and cannot imagine life without them, you can purchase a slicer from Aliexpress from the catalog, and.
• Shredding on it is a real pleasure.

• If you want seasoned chips, brush each wedge with butter and sprinkle with seasoning.
• Place them in a single layer on a dish and microwave.
• Turn it on at 700 W, time 5 minutes, if the cut is wide - 7 minutes.
• Ready as soon as they turn brown.
• If you skip a little, the chips will burn, if you do not hold it a little, they will not crunch pleasantly.

Can you cook homemade chips in a skillet?

Yes, and they will be no worse than in a deep fryer. To do this, prepare the potatoes.

• Wash and peel potatoes
• Chop
• Rinse under running water and pat dry on a paper towel
• After that, roll in flour with spices (salt, pepper, paprika, dill, etc.)
• Pour 2-2.5 cm of refined oil into the pan
• Heat and sprinkle the potatoes so that they are evenly distributed and covered with oil. Preferably in one layer
• As soon as it acquires a golden brown tint, you need to take it out immediately

Pringles at home

These chips have gained worldwide popularity for their taste ... and advertising. If you are a money-maker, you can easily cook a kilogram of Pringles for the price of just one kilogram of potatoes! Interesting? So, we are preparing potatoes!

We will need:

• Potatoes - 3 large tubers;
• Butter - 30 g;
• Oat flakes (no additives) - 100 gr;
• Flour - 5 tbsp. spoons;
• Spices (paprikash, mushroom, Italian herbs or other to taste);
• Egg - 1 pc;
• Yeast - 2 gr.

Preparation:

• Peel and boil the potatoes as in mashed potatoes
• We drain the water completely
• Grind the potatoes with a blender, adding oil, seasoning, salt to taste, yeast in the process
• Grind the flakes into flour and add to the puree
• We also send wheat flour there and add 1 egg
• Grease the table with butter and lay out a piece of dough
• Cover with cling film and roll into a thin layer
• We remove the film, squeeze out neat thin circles with a glass

Heat the oil in a frying pan. Use a spatula to transfer the chips from the table to the boiling fat. Fry for only 5-10 seconds on each side. We quickly take out and lay the following ones.

Important: To save time and energy costs, cook the chips together. One rolls out, and the other watches the pan.

Apple chips at home

Whatever one may say, but potatoes are high in calories, and not very healthy. But apple chips can crunch even on a diet! But cooking will take longer than potatoes.

How to cook apple chips in the oven? Simple, but a little longer compared to potato.

For apple chips, you need to prepare:

• 5 dense, juicy apples
• 1 glass of water
• 1/4 teaspoon citric acid
• 80 gr. Sahara

Syrup preparation:

• We combine water, sugar and citric acid and put on fire.
• The last ingredient will enhance the taste of the apple and prevent it from darkening on the slices.
• As soon as the syrup has boiled, remove it from the heat.
• We wait a few minutes for the syrup to cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, we thoroughly wash the apples and chop them into thin layers. We remove the core.
• Put apples in syrup and leave for 10-15 minutes.
• Spread on a paper towel to absorb excess moisture.
• Cover the baking sheet with paper and lay out the apples in one layer.
• The oven heats up to 80 ºC.
• Bake until the apples are slightly wavy and golden.

How to Microwave Apple Chips?

The microwave allows you to reduce the cooking of apple chips several times. Especially with the grill function.

Preparation.

• Mine, chop, sprinkle apples with cinnamon and sugar if desired.
• We spread on the grate overlapping each other (in the process, the chips will become wavy and the space will decrease).
• Place in the microwave at full power, dry for about 10-15 minutes, and at the end add the "grill" for a few minutes.
• The crunches are ready!

Video: Cooking Apple Chips

Dmitriy: with the advent of children, our life has changed completely. Alcohol left our home forever, and we already watched football with lemonade. But we could not get out of the habit of chips. Until the eldest tried the store version, and we ended up in the hospital with a terrible rash.

While my wife was at the doctor's appointment, I was already surfing the Internet, and I understood either healthy children or my favorite taste of food. But family friends told us a way out - homemade chips. Especially recommended for children fruit. I have never heard of them. But the internet will tell you everything. Now we are masters in cooking all kinds of chips, and we are gathering friends to taste new and new flavors!

Galina: I am a fan of fast food. Until recently. Until I heard a hot air balloon joke from my friends. Now I am on a diet, but having gathered with "well-wishers" I also want a crouton, and chips and much more. Social media and the apple chip recipe saved me. It turns out that you can eat as many as you like and lose weight! Now I am a fan of healthy fast food.

Video: How to make chips in the microwave in 5 minutes

An excellent remedy for a girl's night dog. Or as a means to fight for the harvest. Thank you when a huge number of apples again fall on you in the fall.

In the meantime, we are preparing from the purchased ones. I actually tried three methods, but this one is the simplest and best.

Wash the apples well.


I wash them with dishwashing liquid, a regular foam sponge.


Place the apples on a towel or napkin. It is not necessary to dry them.


Pour sugar into a small bowl, add water and bring to a boil.


From the tools you will need a knife, a board, and such a device for removing cores from apples.

You can buy it both in the nearest Ikea, and in the shops "All for some rubles". Or order on Ali-Express. You can do without it (but the cut out middle is a hundred times more aesthetically pleasing, and you won't have to spit anything out). You will also need a small strainer.


Then everything is very simple.
Line the baking sheets with baking paper. Pay attention, I wrote about why some baked goods stick to paper, and there, in the comments, the girls voiced reliable varieties of it. Also, in addition to trays, you can cover with paper and grates from the oven. The bigger, the better.

Core the apples.




Cut the apples into 3mm thick rings.


Then dip 2-3 apple rings in the hot syrup in turn.


You do not need to boil. But for about 5 minutes your apples should lie in the cooling boiling water.
Use a slotted spoon to scoop out the apple rings onto a plate.


Heat a little syrup again and dip the next serving (one baking sheet) of apples into it.

And put the rings from the plate in one layer on a baking sheet.




Then pour some cinnamon into a strainer and sprinkle it over the apple rings.


This should be done like this - set the strainer in weight over the apple ring and literally tap your finger on the edge of the strainer twice. And so over each ring. Aim! In order not to waste cinnamon, covering all the paper and all the surroundings with it.


Turn the oven to 100 degrees.
If you have a modern electric oven, then set the mode of the upper and lower heating elements plus convection.
If the oven is gas, then try to set the temperature as low as possible.
Start placing the trays in the oven, one on top of the other as they fill them with apple rings. I generally do not recommend placing more than one baking sheet when baking. But here we are not baking, but drying. So feel free to fill the entire oven.
Dry the chips for 1.5-2 hours.

Set the timer for an hour and a half, and then start checking from the first baking sheet in the oven.


Ready-made chips are already dry, but still able to bend.


At this point, remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the chips cool without removing from the baking sheet.

Since you will have a time gap of 10 minutes between each baking sheet put in the oven, you do not have to clutter the kitchen with sheets. The previous one will have time to cool down until the next one is removed.
And pour the finished chips from the paper into one baking sheet, leave overnight at room temperature.

When dried immediately after the oven, the apple rings become crunchy, as it should be for chips, unlike dried fruit.


I have also tried replacing the sugar in the syrup with stevia (a sweetener), but the result was not at all impressed. You can't just remove the sugar syrup either. For the output is an ordinary apricot, that is, dried apples are like in compote, but they dry much longer, unlike apple rings welded in syrup.

In industrial production, in a combi steamer, I would first put the rings laid out on paper on the steam mode, for 10 minutes. And then I would sprinkle it with cinnamon mixed with powdered sugar. And it would have dried further at 100 degrees.

And do not take too much of the sugar in the recipe about one and a half cups of sugar - half of the syrup will still remain unspent. Apples are not a cotton pad for you, they will not absorb too much.


If you cook with a margin, then by all means keep in a dry cabinet and in a paper bag.

But for some reason, they are not stored for a long time with me))) hrum-hrum what to store there ...

Apple chips are a great substitute for snacks. They are healthy, tasty, low-calorie. We will find out how to make apple chips in the article.

Fruit chips are a great snack that will not only not affect your figure in any way, but will also quickly satisfy your hunger.

Cooking apple chips in the oven is easy. In time, the whole process will take no more than 1.5 hours. As a result, you will receive tasty and healthy snacks, without flavors and other harmful additives.

First you need to choose the right apple variety. It is better to use hard fruits with a sour taste. In this case, the chips will not come out sugary, with a crispy crust.

The following apple varieties are suitable:

• The Pink Lady;
• Gala;
• "Champion";
• Golden;
• Braburn;
• "Duchess".

It is better to cook such snacks in summer, in season, from natural apples grown in the country or in the garden. In this case, there is no doubt about the purity of the fruit.

For the recipe, we need the following ingredients:

• apples - 350-400 g;
• sugar (you can choose a brown variety) - 100 g;
• filtered water - 150 ml;
• lemon juice - 2 teaspoons. This component is optional. It helps to make apple snacks more delicious, gives sour notes.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the apples into thin circles (no more than 1.5 cm wide).
2. Take out the seeds.
3. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, add sugar, wait until it is completely dissolved.
4. Add lemon juice, cool the resulting liquid.
5. Dip the apples into the syrup. Let them soak for 10-15 minutes. This time is enough for the fruit to become softer.
6. Dry the apple wedges with a paper towel.
7. Place them on parchment paper.
8. Place in an already preheated oven for 20-30 minutes (temperature 100-120 degrees).

It is very important to control the cooking process. Check the apples periodically with a fork or a toothpick, as soon as they become soft, you can turn off the oven.

Let the cooked snack stand for a while until it becomes firmer and crisper.

How to cook in the microwave

Making apple chips in the microwave is pretty easy. The advantage of this cooking method is that the process takes no more than 20 minutes.

We need the following ingredients:

• apples - 200 g;
• water - 50 ml;
• lemon juice - 15 g.

Preparation:

1. Cut the apples into thin slices. For these purposes, it is better to use a special fruit shredder.
2. Be sure to remove the core.
3. Rinse each wedge in water.
4. Dry with a paper towel or cotton cloth.
5. Sprinkle with lemon.
6. Arrange the wedges on a plate so that they do not touch each other.
7. Place in the microwave for 10-15 minutes. At the same time, choose the maximum power.

After the microwave finishes working, it is important to immediately get the chips out, otherwise they will damp.

Cooking in an electric dryer

If you have an electric dryer, use it to make delicious apple chips. Such blanks can not only be added to compote, but also used instead of snacks.

Apple chips are sweeter and richer than natural fruit, which is why children love them so much.

The recipe is very simple, except for apples, no other ingredients are needed.

Cooking process:

1. Remove seeds.
2. Place the fruit in an electric dryer.
3. Set the desired program, start the cooking process.

Cooking time can vary from several hours to a day. It all depends on the power of the electric dryer.

It is better to store ready-made apple snacks in linen bags. In this case, the likelihood of the appearance of moths or other insects in the product is minimized.

Sugar-Free Crispy Apple Chips

Apple chips last much longer than fruits made with this ingredient. And it is much more useful for children to eat such snacks in their natural form.

You can make sugar-free apple chips using any of the recipes described above. The only condition is that the fruit should be cut into thin slices so that they do not need to be dipped in syrup.

When the snacks are ready, you can use caramel and honey instead of sugar. They will give the chips an unusual flavor.

With added cinnamon

Cinnamon apples are a delicious and healthy dessert.

To prepare it you will need:

• apples - 500 g;
• cinnamon - 20 g;
• lemon juice –15 ml.

Preparation:

1. Cut the apples into thin slices.
2. Sprinkle lemon juice on the fruit.
3. Sprinkle well with cinnamon.
4. Put the apples in the microwave or oven, start drying the slices.

To make the dessert sweet, you can add powdered sugar to the cinnamon.

Ingredients:

• apples - 2 pieces;
• honey - 30 g;
• nuts, cinnamon.

Preparation:

1. Cut the apples into thin slices.
2. Sprinkle them with water, dry a little.
3. Place in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
4. Take out the apples, brush them on one side with honey.
5. Place in the oven for another 20 minutes.
6. Do the same for the other side of the apple slices.

If desired, the snacks can be sprinkled with cedar cedar nuts or cinnamon. These ingredients will give the dish an original taste.

Apple chips are a delicious dessert for both children and adults. Cooking is very simple. The process does not require special culinary skills and abilities. Try making chips following the recipes given in the article. We are sure that apple snacks will come out fragrant and tasty.