I tried cheesy kale chips for the first time at the Organic Garden Cafe in Beverly, Massachusetts and was instantly smitten with their faux-cheese taste and crispy-chewy texture. The method and ingredients used to create the coating on these chips are simple: a raw cashew base is blended with roasted red peppers, nutritional yeast, a bit of raw tahini and salt, then applied to the kale. A dehydrator then transforms that viscous coating dramatically, giving it a smooth melt-in-your-mouth texture, which perfectly compliments the developed crispiness of the kale.
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CHEESY KALE CHIPS
- Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
- large bunch of curly kale, washed and dried very well
- 1 cup soaked raw cashews, soaked in water overnight, then rinsed and drained
- 7 oz. prepared roasted sweet red peppers
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
- 2-3 TB raw tahini
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Remove the kale leaves from the ribs, and rip into pieces. Set aside.
- Place the soaked cashews into a small food processor and blend until smooth. Add in the remaining ingredients, then blend well again.
- Coat the kale pieces with the cheese mixture as desired. (I was very heavy-handed with the coating on these, which just covered the entire bunch of kale. If you would like a lighter coating, you can cut the coating ingredients in half, or double up on the kale.)
- Place the smothered kale into a food dehydrator at 130 degrees for 9-10 hours, or until a desired crispiness is reached.
