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Jing's Homemade Potato Chips

Homemade Potato Chips

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This is a recipe full of potato flavor! After successfully learning to make potato chips, you will have a lot of potato chips to eat. You can make potato chips of various flavors by yourself. 
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Snacks
Cuisine Chinese Home Cooking
Servings 1 servings
Calories 185 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Dutch oven or deep kettle for frying

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Peel the potatoes and slice them into thin slices. 1-2mm (about 1/16 inch). 
    1 medium potato
    1 medium potato
  • NOTE: This is a good test for developing your knife skills, but if you prefer, you can use a hand-held slicer.
    Slice the potatoes thin. Use a food slicer if you are not skilled with a knife. An even thichkness is essenti
  • Rinse the potato chips to wash away the starch on the surface of the potato. 
  • Add enough water to cover the potatoes in the wok. After heating the water, add the potatoes and cook for 3 minutes (depending on the thickness of your slices, the potato slices can be cooked until they are transparent). 
    par-boiling the sliced potatoes cooks the potato, then when we fry it we make it crispy
  • Remove the potatoes from the wok, put them in cold water, and drain the water. Pour out the water from the wok and dry. 
    soak the potatoes in cold water to stop the cooking
  • Important: be sure the wok is completely dry before performing this step! Pour oil in a dry wok, and heat to 150°C (300 F). 
    dry the potatoes before frying
  • Pat the chips dry with a towel to remove any water from the surface.  
    fry the potato slices in hot oil to make homemade potato chips
  • Add the potato slices to the hot oil and fry until crispy (about 10 minutes). Remove the chips from the oil. 
    fry the homemade potato chips to a crispy golden brown
  • Sprinkle with cumin and chili powder, and shake to blend the seasoning and potato chips. 
    2 teaspoons cumin, ground, 1.5 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon Chinese chili powder
    season the potato chips with salt, cumin, and Sichuan chili powder

Notes

take a bite!
Image credit: Chen Jing for My Chinese Home Kitchen, 2021
  • Keep the oil dry when heating the oil and frying, and do not let the hot oil come into contact with water. Otherwise it will explode. 
  • Be careful not to get burned by the hot oil. 
  • When slicing potatoes, please cut them evenly, otherwise the thin part of the same potato chip will be easily burnt, and the thick part will be soft after frying. 
  • Increase the seasoning according to the number of potatoes. 
  • You can choose the seasoning you like. 

Nutrition

Calories: 185kcalCarbohydrates: 40gProtein: 5gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 3541mgPotassium: 1008mgFiber: 6gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 648IUVitamin C: 42mgCalcium: 72mgIron: 5mg
Keyword chili powder (gan die), cumin, frying, deep-fry, potatoes, salt
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