Sun Dried Tea Potato Crisps

by sabu.dawdy in Cooking > Snacks & Appetizers

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Sun Dried Tea Potato Crisps

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A perfect snack for tea time , but these are not ordinary ones, you can store them dried and fry them when ever you want to.

Ingredients

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potatoes

salt

cooking oil

linen cloth

big pot

big strainer

mandolin

large dish to soak potatoes into

Peeling

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peel your potatoes, cut into very thin slices

keep them soaked so them don't get browned

keep making sure that your potatoes are submerged in water to prevent browning

Keep Washing and Draining and Repeat Soaking

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can you see the two different shapes. Wash your potato slices.

Boiling Process

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You need to Rinse your potatoes FOUR times to wash the starch away.

bring alot of water to boil. add your potatoes, salt, and cook until another roll of boiling occurs. Keep checking potatoes, they should cook very slightly, make sure they are still very raw.

strain and separate pieces.

Sun Light

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place them under direct sunlight over a linen cloth. Keep turning then after a few hours.

it will dry with in a day if its sunny (if the temprature is above 35 degree celsius)

Dried Ones,

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once they are totally dried, ( they will snap when you will try to break them, with a sound,) if they are not dried enough they would bend first then snap.

Tip

The whitter the dried crisp will be if it is washed correctly

Fry on High Temperature.

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as shown.

The oil need to be very very hot

Done.

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Left ones are ov