Potato Chips Recipe | Potato Wafers

Mild, crisp, and ideal for snacking, these oven baked Potato Chips (a.ok.a. Potato Wafers) are a more healthy different to the deep-fried model. This Potato Chips recipe is straightforward to make at dwelling and doesn’t require any specialty tools!

About Potato Chips Recipe

Potato chips are a favourite amongst many of us. Those which we get available in the market are largely deep fried.

We additionally like fried potato chips, however more often than not we simply wish to snack on more healthy, much less oily stuff.

I normally make potato chips at dwelling, each fried in addition to baked. To not say that we don’t purchase ready-made chips from the market, which we do occasionally.

This recipe is a wholesome different to common fried potato chips. Some prep work is required, so make these as soon as you might be free from all of your chores.

I additionally make sun-dried potato chips in an analogous approach, however for that recipe, no oil is added and they’re dried within the solar as a substitute of baked.

Step-by-Step Information

How To Make Potato Chips

Preparation

1. in a bowl, add 3 cups of water + 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir in order that the salt dissolves.

2. Rinse the potatoes first. Then peel and slice potatoes utilizing a mandoline or a slicer instantly within the bowl containing water.

I used 3 giant potatoes weighing 550 grams, or about 20 ounces. It’s far simpler to make use of a mandoline or a slicer for slicing the potatoes as a result of the slices need to be skinny.

Don’t slice with a knife as thick slices don’t change into crisp when baked, however they nonetheless style good.

3. Slice all of the potatoes and immerse them within the water. They need to stay immersed within the salted water.

Blanch Potatoes

4. Carry 6 to 7 cups of water + 1 teaspoon of salt to a rolling boil over medium warmth.

5. Drain all of the water from the bowl and thoroughly add the potatoes to the boiling water.

6. Blanch the potatoes for 3 to 4 minutes on excessive warmth.

7. Swap off the warmth, cowl the pot, and permit the potatoes to remain immersed in water for 3 to 4 minutes.

8. The potatoes ought to be translucent after the blanching course of is over.

Put together Potato Chips For Baking

9. Drain all the water from the potatoes nicely utilizing a colander or strainer.

10. Add all of the slices to a bowl.

11. Add 1 tablespoon of oil and ½ teaspoon of salt, or add as required.

12. Gently combine very nicely in order that the oil coats the potato slices evenly. You possibly can add as much as 2 tablespoons of oil in complete.

Bake Potato Wafers

13. Place the chips in a calmly oiled baking tray protecting ½ cm house in between the slices.

Bake potato chips in a preheated oven at 250 levels Celsius/480 levels Fahrenheit for 10 to fifteen minutes. Do preserve a verify as oven temperatures differ.

I baked in batches since I’ve a small oven. If baking in batches, there isn’t a must brush oil on the baking tray once more.

Excessive temperatures work greatest, as when I’ve baked these at decrease temperatures, they didn’t have the sunshine crisp texture.

14. As soon as they give the impression of being crisp and are mild golden to golden, then take away potato chips from the oven.

As quickly as they’re cooled, retailer the potato wafers in an air-tight jar or field. They get cooled inside a minute. You can also make them extra golden if you would like.

Serve these crisp, skinny, and lightweight baked potato chips as a snack or an accompaniment to your favourite dips, sandwiches, or wraps.

Be at liberty to sprinkle extra salt as wanted on the baked potato wafers.

Knowledgeable Ideas

• Kind of Potato: Be it French Fries or for any crispy potato snack like these potato wafers, it’s best to make use of starchy potatoes – like Russet, Yukon Gold, Maris Piper, Idaho and so forth. Potatoes having much less starch received’t change into crispy and provide the greatest texture.
• Seasonings and Herbs: If you would like, you may season these crispy potato wafers along with your favourite herbs and spices. We choose the traditional, plain salted potato chips.
• Deep Frying: It’s also possible to deep fry the potato chips as a substitute of baking them. Whereas deep frying, simply be certain that there isn’t a moisture within the potato chip slices after blanching. Ensure to wipe and dry them with a clear kitchen towel or paper napkins.

  Whereas frying, the oil ought to be sufficiently scorching (roughly 160-177° C, or 325-350° F) in order that the potato chips don’t absorb an excessive amount of oil and as a substitute change into good and crisp.

• Slicing: Slice the potato thinly as skinny potato slices make the very best potato chips. If in case you have one, it is a nice time to make use of a mandoline.
• Air-fried possibility: These potato chips can be simply air fried as a substitute of baking.
• For Navratri Fasting: You can also make these potato chips for any Hindu fasting or Navratri fasting, however use edible rock salt (sendha namak) as a substitute of normal salt.

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This Potato Chips recipe from the archives, initially revealed in April 2015 has been up to date and republished on January 2023.