As I mentioned before, after the 1st day our 10 day clean eating diet I realized the importance of a good and healthy snack. So, I Googled away. There were 3 things that were super important to me:
1. An easy recipe
2. Something I could make ahead of time
3. Something with few, but healthy ingredients
I found two recipes that I wanted to make asap. One was for lara bars which will be saved for another post and the other was banana chips. I don't buy banana chips much if at all, but I love bananas and I loved how easy it seemed to be to make them. I don't have a dehydrator, but there were plenty of oven baked chip recipes out there! I used a variation of the one I found at Homemadesimple.com
I did one batch earlier this week that didn't turn out so well. I think it was because I was impatient (imagine that!) so I turned the heat up higher than recommended and cut the bananas pretty thin. Needless to say, in half the time allotted, I sort of burnt them. They weren't ruined, but they were ugly and a tad on the crispy side.
I decided to give it one more go and bought a couple of banana bunches at the Farmer's Market. It's a SLOW process, so make sure you have plenty of time. You are dehydrating them after all!
Here's what you need:
5 Bananas (this makes several servings)
Juice of 1 lemon
Pre-Heat your oven to 200. Low and slow, y'all!
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper...some websites suggested spraying a little cooking oil to prevent sticking, but I didn't have a problem without it
The finished product turned out great! They are super yummy even though they're a little dark. I guess I'm going to have to keep experimenting to get them to look like these, but practice makes perfect doesn't it?
1. An easy recipe
2. Something I could make ahead of time
3. Something with few, but healthy ingredients
I found two recipes that I wanted to make asap. One was for lara bars which will be saved for another post and the other was banana chips. I don't buy banana chips much if at all, but I love bananas and I loved how easy it seemed to be to make them. I don't have a dehydrator, but there were plenty of oven baked chip recipes out there! I used a variation of the one I found at Homemadesimple.com
I did one batch earlier this week that didn't turn out so well. I think it was because I was impatient (imagine that!) so I turned the heat up higher than recommended and cut the bananas pretty thin. Needless to say, in half the time allotted, I sort of burnt them. They weren't ruined, but they were ugly and a tad on the crispy side.
I decided to give it one more go and bought a couple of banana bunches at the Farmer's Market. It's a SLOW process, so make sure you have plenty of time. You are dehydrating them after all!
Here's what you need:
5 Bananas (this makes several servings)
Juice of 1 lemon
Pre-Heat your oven to 200. Low and slow, y'all!
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper...some websites suggested spraying a little cooking oil to prevent sticking, but I didn't have a problem without it
I cut the bananas into about 1/4" slices, then dipped them in the lemon juice before placing them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper
All lined up and ready to go!
I put the bananas in the oven at 200 degrees for an hour and a half before flipping them over.
Another hour and a half later, they were still soft, but smelling good!
Halfway through baking....
I would suggest using an hour and a half increments in the oven flipping them after each increment. This batch took about 4 1/2 hours to make because I like my chips on the chewy side. Total personal and possibly weird preference!
Whala!
The finished product turned out great! They are super yummy even though they're a little dark. I guess I'm going to have to keep experimenting to get them to look like these, but practice makes perfect doesn't it?
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