Homemade Baked Potato Chips

Mmm Mmm! Crunchy. Chips are everyone's favorite snack. You cannot just eat one. But with more insight into things we should eat, we avoid fried foods like Chips. The food industry analyzed the public behavior and came up with Baked chips instead. But are those baked chips any healthier? Actually not. As a rule of thumb, always turn to read the ingredients list. The ingredients in a regular bag of chips are simple - Potatoes, Oil and Salt. But the story changes for the baked bag of chips. It has ingredients like Corn Starch, Soy Lecithin and Corn Sugar. Check out the images below. 

If I want to eat baked chips, why do the ingredients need to change. It should just be the method that is subject to change - baking instead of frying. Well the big names in the food industry fail to do so. So I now bake my own when am in the mood for crispy, crunchy potato chips. And best feature of homemade is that they are served warm!!


So as for the recipe it is as simple as it can get. All you need is -

Potatoes, washed and dried
Olive Oil
Salt
Cayenne Pepper (optional)

• Preheat oven at 400 deg F
• Slice the potatoes using a mandolin slicer really thin.
• Drop the slices in a bowl and mix with oil, salt and pepper.
• Prepare 2 cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.
• Arrange the potato slices in single layer so they do not top each other.
• Bake for 25 min