What you need:
A bunch of kale
Olive oil (a few tablespoons, depending on the amount of kale)
Salt
4 or 5 cloves of garlic (optional)
How to make kale chips:
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
1. Rinse kale leaves and pat dry.
2. Rip the leaves into bite size pieces, removing the leafy part from the long stem down the middle. Discard the stem.
3. Place kale in a large bowl, and drizzle olive oil over the leaves. Mix with your hands, massaging the leaves so that they are coated with olive oil. It should only be enough to coat the leaves, they shouldn't be dripping with oil.
4. If adding garlic, mince the cloves into the bowl with the kale leaves and mix.
5. Place the leaves in a single layer on a baking sheet.
6. Bake in the oven at 300 degrees for about 15 minutes. The leaves should be crispy on the edges.
7. Remove from oven and sprinkle generously with salt.
8. Serve!
My family will devour an entire plate of these in about 5 minutes. I had to put some aside for my husband, who wasn't in the room, because my son and I were eating them all!
