Fruit chips: the benefits and harm, delicious recipes

People living in the modern world are often forced to eat on the run. The only thing that remains is to select such products for snacking, which at least will not be harmful.The category of such can be attributed to fruit chips, especially those that are cooked at home.

Everyone is accustomed to the fact that there are potato chips, that they are tasty, high-calorie and very harmful. But on the shelves of stores today you can find not only traditional potato, but also fruit chips. They have much fewer calories and vitamins, which are full of fresh fruit. There are no preservatives or colorants in high-quality crunchy fruit snacks, as well as dangerous carcinogens, since fruit snacks are not fried in butter.

Such products are obtained by freezing the fruit and further processing in a drying apparatus. Thanks to these manipulations, the moisture evaporates from the juicy slices, and everything useful remains in place.

The snacks made according to such rules are dietary foods that cannot harm the digestive system or contribute to gaining extra pounds.

Another question is that store chips in our time do not have confidence. You can not know for sure that the manufacturer has put on the market a completely safe product. Some of them also add flavor enhancers and other chemicals to the fruit chips, which the buyer often does not even suspect. At the same time, this product cannot be called cheap. Buying it is often not very reasonable, in terms of the family budget.

The best way to get a really healthy product for snacking is to make crispy snacks from the fruit yourself. It is quite possible to cook natural chips at home. Nothing but good, from their use will not have to wait. Except when the recipe uses butter or a lot of sugar. Moreover, thanks to the hand-made production of snacks, you can:

• Enrich the diet of family members with a completely useful product;
• give the opportunity to take useful chips to school, work or on vacation, without burdening the bag with excess weight of products;
• snack on tasty delicacy without damage to the figure

Prepare a delicious crispy snack can be from different fruits. The most common in dried form are:

• apples;
• bananas;
• apricots;
• oranges;
• kiwi;
• pineapples;
• pears

In order to create a delicacy, it turns out, indeed, chips, and not ordinary dried fruits, it is necessary to cut them very thinly. Only in this way, after drying, can they crunch. To achieve this, you need to use a vegetable cutter or grater, which allows you to divide a particular fruit into almost transparent plates.

When it comes to making chips, for example, from citrus fruits, do not peel them off. It is enough to remove the bones.

Fruits can be dried just like that, and you can use a more complex recipe. For example, coat the pieces with honey, powdered sugar and spices for sweet dishes like cinnamon or vanilla.

After the fruit is divided into parts, a baking sheet is covered with baking paper, the plastic is laid out in one layer and dried at a temperature of sixty degrees, turning from time to time. The oven door should be slightly opened to allow the moisture to evaporate faster.

In the process of preparation, the pieces should become brittle. It must be borne in mind that the cooking process will take several hours.

If the farm has an electric dryer for products, you can use it. It is enough to expand the plate, and put the device on the desired mode. The drier itself will provide uniform heating.

Most often, chips are made from apples. They have an interesting sweet taste that can be made even more pleasant by adding nutmeg, cinnamon or ginger to apples.

Apple slices roll in additives, and then spread on a baking sheet according to the above scheme. If you bake them quickly, you can set the temperature in the oven at one hundred degrees. Then cooking will take an hour.Half an hour is drying on one side, half an hour - on the other.

Using this principle, you can cook pear chips. To do this, chopped fruit is rolled in cinnamon and sugar, and then dried.

Banana chips contain large amounts of vitamin C and B, as well as potassium. It is better to dry slices of such fruits with cinnamon, which is sprinkled on the plates before being sent to the oven. And also you can sprinkle the slices with liquid chocolate.

At a temperature of one hundred degrees, such chips will be ready in an hour and a half from the start of processing. Finally, they will acquire a characteristic crunch after cooling.

For the preparation of banana chips in Mexican take three or four of these fruits, vegetable oil and lemon, as well as hot red pepper and salt. Bananas peel and cut into thin circles. The temperature in the oven is adjusted to one hundred and eighty degrees. Plates of fruit are watered with oil, sprinkled with spices and spread on a baking sheet in one layer. They wait about twenty minutes, then turn over, and bake the same amount of time. Then the oven needs to be turned off, and the chips do not reach, letting them finally lose their excess moisture.

Green bananas are also suitable for creating a crispy snack. They can be used with sauce. It is necessary to take two or three immature fruits, a teaspoon of olive oil and salt to taste. For the sauce will need one fruit of avocado, juice of half a lemon and garlic (clove).

Bananas thinly cut into small rings. Oven set at one hundred and eighty degrees. Sprinkle with fruit and butter and cover with spices, and then mix gently.

Put the bananas on a baking sheet made with paper and leave in the oven for fifteen minutes, then cook for the same amount, turning to the other side.

Prepare the sauce by grinding and mixing all the ingredients into a homogeneous mass.

It is good to turn citrus fruits into a crunchy snack, spreading orange, lemon and lime on one baking sheet at the same time. They can be poured with sugar or roll in honey. And after that send to the hot oven for cooking. The taste of this assortment will range from sweet to sour.

The taste of kiwi chips is tart. For their preparation, you can take three or four fruits. Remove hairs from the peel or cut the skin at all. It remains to cut the kiwi into thin round plates, moisten in lemon juice and put on a baking sheet covered with paper. Dry at a temperature of fifty degrees.

A whole collection of fruit flavors really get if you cook at the same time chips from a variety of different fruits. You can take a couple of apples, as many bananas and kiwi, add lemons (three), pineapple and a kilo of sugar.

First you need to cook syrup. Pour sugar into a basin, pour cold water (liter) and wait for boiling. Stir, remove from heat and squeeze the contents of one lemon into a sweet mass. Allow to cool.

Fruits cut into slices one millimeter thick. Dip them in the syrup, put the lid on top and let it stand in this form for a couple of hours. Oven set at seventy degrees. In the meantime, remove the fruit preparations from the syrup and put it on paper to drain the excess sweetness. After that you can dry.

In the absence of any experience in making fruit chips, quite a few such snacks can be made to begin with. This will allow you to understand the subtleties of the process and, in general, to assess whether you like such food.

It is advisable not to mix fruits that are different in structure and composition in one baking sheet, since their preparation time may be too different. It may be that one part does not dry out and will not be crisp, and the other will have time to burn.

It is necessary to take into account that when using honey and sugar, the likelihood of fruit burning increases. Therefore, to monitor the chips created by the recipe with such ingredients, you need to be especially careful.

To create chips, you can use not only fruits, but also vegetables, for example, carrots, beets or pumpkins.

See how to make banana chips with cinnamon in the next video.