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Baked Crispy Garlic Kale Chips

Kale is a food that I discovered relatively recently and I think it is fabulous!  It is such a nutritional powerhouse.  According to Web MD, 1 cup of kale has just 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber, 15% of your daily calcium and B6 requirement, along with 180% of your vitamin A, 200% of your vitamin C and 1020% of your vitamin K.  What’s not to love about those statistics?

Previously I had used kale in soups and I’d sauteed it as a side dish, but I had never made chips.  Well, after finding some good looking kale at the farmer’s market, I decided it was time to give it a try and am I glad that I did!  They are sooo good, perfect for snacking on.  In fact, after giving them a try, Alex, who’s a little picky about veggies, said I should make them more often…..well, OK.

They are so easy to make, too.  Just chop the kale into bite size pieces, toss it with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake.  And just to add a little extra flavor, I infused the olive oil with garlic, but they would be perfectly delicious with plain olive oil.

Baked Crispy Garlic Kale Chips

  • 1 bunch kale
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 to 2 tbsp olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Pour oil into a small skillet over medium low heat.  Crush garlic clove and add to skillet.  Cook for about 10 minutes to allow garlic to infuse oil.  Remove from heat.

While oil is being infused, remove kale from stems and cut into bite size pieces.

Toss kale with olive oil, season with salt and pepper.  Spread out on a cookie sheet.

Bake for about 7 minutes.  After 7 minutes, check kale, stir and bake for another 2 to 3 minutes until kale is crispy.  Cool and start snacking!

ENJOY!

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Monday 20th of August 2012

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Miz Helen

Friday 3rd of August 2012

Lisa, your Kale Chips look so good, I never thought of using the garlic, this will be a great recipe to try. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday! Come Back Soon, Miz Helen

Debra

Friday 3rd of August 2012

Love kale chips. I love the idea of infusing the oil with garlic. I always made these chips at 400 like your recipe then I checked a book by Sur La Table about cooking local food from the library, and it had a recipe for kale chips where the chips were cooked at 250F for 30 minutes. What a difference. I got less burned chips and the cooking at a lower temperature made perfect chips. Next time I'll try them with the garlic olive oil!

Rosy

Tuesday 31st of July 2012

Thanks for this post! I didn't know it was THIS good for us! I can't wait to try this, it looks delicious :) I do something similar with brussel sprouts

Lisa

Wednesday 1st of August 2012

Brussel sprouts sound interesting, I love them when they're roasted or sauteed! Thanks for reading!! :)