It’s been a while!
After a hiatus, we are going back on Paleo. It’s hard to keep up such a strict diet when two people live in separate places but still try to grocery shop together, so our solution was to wait until we were finally moved in together to start it again!
As a way to ease into it, I made us a snack first. Pinterest makes Paleo easy with recipes and pictures, and that’s where I found this recipe for apple chips!
Baked Apple Chips
Step One
Start with two large apples (washed), and preheat your oven to 200°. You want to cut the apples into the thinnest slices possible. If you have a mandolin slicer, it would be perfect for this. I used a very sharp knife. Also, I left the cores in. Feel free to cut them out if you don’t want the extra crunch, but I thought they were prettier with the core left in.
Step Two
Lay the slices flat on a baking sheet or other flat surface and sprinkle them with ground cinnamon, then flip them and sprinkle the other side. Be careful not to overdo it as cinnamon can get bitter in large quantities.
Step Three
Put the chips in the oven and bake them for an hour, then flip them and bake for another hour. If you have a fancy oven with a dehydrator setting, this would be a good chance to use it. Otherwise you can pop the door open from time to time and let the moisture out. If two hours isn’t enough, feel free to bake them until they’re crisp.
I took mine out at two hours because I had something else to put in the oven, but I was still pleased with the result. They weren’t crispy like potato chips, but they were chewy like dried apples from the store (and way cheaper/healthier!). It’s hard to burn anything at 200° though, so keep them in as long as you’d like until they look good.
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