Raw Vegan Kale Chip Recipe! For Toddlers

Kale Chips are addictive and great and healthy. Make sure to add a sauce. If you want to keep it simple just use a sauce of 50% cashew, 50% red pepper . More complex recipe is below.

They can be cooked at low temperatures in an oven, or best in a dehydrator overnight at 115 degrees, just below the temperature that many nutrients are lost. The food is still considered "RAW" at 115. But expect a good 10-14 hours, so don't wait for it. Also eat it within a couple hours of finishing. If you "cook" it for 14 hours and let it sit for 4 hours until you get home, it will pick up moisture in the room and lose the crisp.

Put it in a plastic bag, try and remove the air, sometimes I put rice in it, not sure if that does much to absorb moisture, or those "do not eat, silica" packets also should help absorb moisture.

This is my favorite Kale Chip Recipe (inspired by this Kale Chip recipe)

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• 1 bunch kale, rinsed with large pieces since they shrink (maybe 5 pieces per leaf)

Put this in the blender (Vitamix preferred)

• 2 cups raw cashews (buy pieces, they are cheaper) (soak for 4 hours is better, but not required)
• 1 large red pepper
• 1 clove garlic!
• 2-3 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes ( I use KAL Nutritional Yeast Flakes) optional
• Juice of one lemon
• Pinch of sea salt

Some people add some olive oil.

Get your hands messy and lather it up.

When you make the above recipe, the more liquidy you make it, the less stay on the chips. But if it is too clumpy and thick, it won't spread well. So play with it. Also think of it as 75% will go away, so don't think you are putting too much on.

Frank

p.s. We own the Excalibur Food Dehydrator 3526T, 5 tray , which has a timer on it. Most of their models do NOT have a timer unless you buy it from them on ebay or directly. Resellers get the non timer model, which is a pain. You could buy a $15 timer at Home Depot I guess.