Green Plantain Chips

This is one of the most easiest dishes I have tried. I had read a lot of recipes for chips from other bloggers and also about the use of oven to make them. So when I found raw plantains in our grocery store I was eager to try some chips. I found that naking them not only saves you from using soo much oil but the chips also stay crisp for a longer time and hold the seasoning better.

Vegetables:

• 2 nos - Green Plantains

Seasoning:

• 2 tsp - Red Chilli Powder

• 1 tsp - Turmeric Powder

• 2 Tbsp - Oil

• Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Scrape the thick outer skin of the plantains and slice them using a mandoline or you can do it with a knife too but make sure the slices are crisp.
2. Preheat the oven to about 300deg C .
   
3. Now toss the slices with oil, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt and neatly arrange them on a baking dish.
4. Place this in the oven. Check on them every 1 min after the initial 5 mins to see if they are done on one side. Take the baking dish out and flip the chips to cook them on both sides.
5. Be sure to use gloves and dont forget that the chips are going to be hot too, not just the baking dish.
   
6. Enjoy your chips :-)

Note:

• The oven I used is a very old one and so I am not sure if the cooking time I have given can be used blindly. Feel free to modifythem as per your expereince
• You can add some Asafoetida in the seasoning too.
• Any kind of vegetable that can be made as chips can be prepared this way. eg: potatoes, bitter gourd, yam.
• I used the same method for bitter gourd chips and they were very tasty. Only difference was I added some garlic salt in the seasoning.