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Sweet potato chips

Toss the greasy store-bought potato chips, and try these homemade sweet potato chips. As a quick and easy snack or a fun side for dinner, these chips will be a family favorite. 

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The Pastry Chef's Baking
Leave these lightly seasoned sweet potato chips in the oven as long as possible to get them crispy.

I actually don't like potato chips. Not the thin, greasy kind. I'll mow through a bag of Doritos, Cheetos, Fritos, and/or Sun Chips whenever I want salt but the straight-forward, simple, humble potato chip? I don't think so. However, I saw nothing wrong with switching my allegiance to sweet potato chips. The sweet potato has ousted the white potato in my affections so I figured I would like sweet potato chips just fine.

And so I did. I didn't bake these long enough so they weren't all crunchy, just a few pieces that started to think about burning before I took them out of the oven. But I liked the spices sprinkled over them and they still tasted better than a bag of potato chips.

If you want them crunchy like "real" chips, slice them thinly and evenly then leave them in the oven as long as you can stand. You don't even need to sprinkle additional salt on these since the spice mixture already makes them good eating. Move over Ruffles; the homemade sweet potato chip has you beat.

Sweet potato chips
From The Recipe Diva

2 medium sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean and sliced into 1/8-inch slices (I also peeled mine)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon cumin

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2. Place sweet potato slices and oil in a re-sealable bag and shake to coat.

3. In a small dish, combine the seasonings and add to the sweet potatoes. Shake again to evenly coat.

4. Lay potato slices on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove the potatoes from the oven and flip. Cook for an additional 10 minutes until crisp.

5. Place potatoes on a wire cooling rack to cool – they crisp up more as they cool.

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