Sweet Potato (Yam) Chips

I love the whole salty-crunchy thing about snacks.  What I don’t love is how expensive the GF crackers, chips etc… are ridiculously priced.  So, enter home made snackies! Super cheap, super tasty, and after these, you’ll never go back. First I’ll go over the yam chips, and then next post, beet chips!

These chips are perfectly crispy… you can brush them or toss them with any number of spices of seasonings.  I like mine plain, but imagine how good they would be tossed with hot pepper olive oil…. oh yum.

Here they are, plain and simple and crunchy and snacky :)

Sweet Potato Chips

Ingredients

• 3 yams (sweet potatoes)
• 1/4 cup (or less, depends on your preferance) olive oil (or hot pepper olive oil!)
• sprinkle of salt to taste

Directions

1. Peel the raw sweet potatoes first. 
2. Slice them thinly and uniformly- err. Skip the mandoline- use a food processor if you can!  If you use a food processor, they will be thicker, and need to cook longer (30 min).  If you slice them super thin on a mandoline,  use the instructions below.
3. Toss the slices with the oil and salt to taste (I would say about 1 tbsp per cookie sheet of chips works well)
4. Lay them (don’t over lap!), on a cookie sheet.
5. Cook at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.  (Raw Food and Paleo: use a dehydrator over night instead of the oven).Check on the chips-  they need to be bubbling hot on top and just barely starting to brown.  If they are,  turn the heat down to 200 degrees for 30 min.  (check on them at the 15 min mark).
6. Ok, here’s where these things get picky… When they are ready,  they’ll be somewhat crispy but may not be entirely stiff.  If they are floppy, keep them in the oven.   When they are ready, pull them out, and let them cool on the cookie sheet for an hour.  They should finish drying up and turn out really nicely. 
7. NOTE:  I found that if I let the un-oiled un-slaoted yam slices dry on a cookie sheet over night before seasoning them and cooking them, cut down my cooking time the next  day.  You can try that too.
8. If you have a dehydrator, of course this entire processs is way easier.  *sigh*.  i wish.

 Other Chip Recipes

• Gluten Free Corn Free Tortilla Chips
• Fruit Chips
• Gluten Free Corn Free Nacho Chips
• Beet Chips

Some great Dip Recipes

• Baba Ghanouj
• Easy Roasted Red Peppers
• Roasted Red Pepper Hummus