As promised, the Valentine posts are over. Relieved? 🙂 Today, I’m coming with another healthy recipe – a simple recipe for carrot crisps. Personally, I’m quite bored with potato crisps and I’ve been enjoying experimenting with other vegetables. I’ve already posted a recipe for sweet potato crisps and today I’m here to present you my carrot crisps.
You’ll need:
- carrots
- a little bit of olive oil (a teaspoon per carrot)
- spices: salt, pepper, paprika, herbs of your choice
Preheat the oven to 120°C.
Finely slice the carrots. I like to do it diagonally, so the slices end up a bit bigger (they will shrink in the oven).
Place the slices in a bowl, drizzle them with olive oil and season generously with spices and herbs of your choice.
Stir the contents of the bowl, so that the oil and spices are evenly distributed. It’s easiest to do it with your hands.
Move the carrots onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Spread them evenly, avoid overlapping. Bake them for about 1 hour 20 minutes (the time will depend on the thickness of your slices as well as your oven). You can take the tray out of the oven every 20 minutes to stir and turn over the carrots and to check the progress.
Enjoy! 🙂
I need to point out one thing – keeping your oven heated for over an hour in order to bake one carrot, which will be eaten in 5 minutes, isn’t the most efficient. I would recommend doubling or tripling the recipe or making crisps from various fruits or vegetables at the same time. I’ve already posted a recipe for sweet potato crisps, but the same idea can be applied to apples, peaches, beetroots, parsley root, regular potatoes and many others. You can bake multiple trays at once (I usually turn the fan on if I’m baking more than one tray).
Carrot Crisps
Healthy, home-made crisps
Ingredients
- carrots
- a little bit of olive oil (a teaspoon per carrot)
- spices: salt, pepper, paprika, herbs of your choice
Directions
- Finely slice the carrots.
- Place the slices in a bowl, drizzle them with olive oil and season generously with spices and herbs of your choice.
- Stir the contents of the bowl, so that the oil and spices are evenly distributed.
- Move the carrots onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Spread them evenly, avoid overlapping.
- Bake them for about 1 hour 20 minutes
- Take the tray out of the oven every 20 minutes to stir and turn over the carrots and to check the progress.
Alphe's Corner 
Love this idea, and the crisps look great!
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They taste great too, if I say so myself 😉
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I’ve never heard of this, they do look tasty!
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Tasty and healthy! Perfect combination 😀 No palm oil and who-knows-what-other-junk.
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Far too many foods are processed into oblivion today… Added salt and fat!
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And sugar, even in savoury foods you wouldn’t even suspect of having added sugar!
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Too much glucose is bad. I’m type 2 diabetic.
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That’s why it’s best to prepare things from scratch. 🙂
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Sure, if your a talented cook like you! ❤️
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They look delicious. I might be able to do this one. lol
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It honestly can’t go wrong. Even burning them would be difficult, seeing that they actually need to spend quite a while in the oven 😀
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Woaaaa thankyou for sharing! I love carrot. Usually, I blend it and make it juicy and this is a new idea~
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We often have grated carrot as a side dish, it’s delicious too. How do you manage to blend it though? 😮 Or do you blend it cooked? Raw carrot would certainly ruin my blender! 😀
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blend it with water and become a juice hehehe
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Yummy i love those 🙂
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Lovely alternative to deep fried french fries… totally guiltfree and healthy too👍
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Absolutely! No palm oil, no preservatives, only the good stuff!
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Carrot crisps look like a great ideal!! 💕 💕 💕
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Those sound yummy and easy to prepare.
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They certainly are both! 🙂
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I just bought sweet potatoes to do this!! Never thought of carrots! Add to my list! You sure your not a Urban Homesteader!😉
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I just like to make everything myself haha! After all, I’m the only person I fully trust… or at least in 99% 😀
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Yumm!!! What a great idea, Alphe. They look like they turned out so well. ♡
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What a great idea – I’ve had other vegetables done in chips but never carrots – I don’t know why because they look soooo good!
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