Crispy, baked apple chips

Crispy, baked apple chips

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Homemade apple chips, soaked in salted lemon water and then fried in multiple batches to achieve a crispy texture, to be stored in a sealed container.

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Thinly sliced and very finely chopped potatoes, soaked in a lemon-infused salted water, then deep-fried in multiple batches to achieve a very crispy result.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time25 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total40 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodFrying
  • Estimated cost$3.75 $0.94 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 14, 2026.
  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

4 people
  • $2.24
  • $0.43
  • $0.36
  • $0.32
  • $0.12
  • $0.28

Prices from US supermarkets for 2 of 6 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Peel the apples and slice them very thinly. ≈ 8 min
  2. In a large bowl of cold water, dissolve the salt and squeeze the lemon. Soak the slices in this water for 15 minutes, then rinse and pat them dry with a clean cloth.
  3. Mix the pepper and salt finely. Heat a large amount of oil in a frying pan, then add the apples in batches of four, without stirring initially.
  4. Once the slices start to brown, gently stir them with a slotted spoon.
  5. When they are yellow and crispy, drain them and sprinkle them with a mixture of pepper and salt, shaking to coat. ≈ 2 min

The bill

Crispy, baked apple chips

  • 1 kg of large, old-fashioned yellow apples$2.24
  • One and a half lemons$0.43
  • 3 tablespoons of coarse salt$0.36
  • 3 teaspoons of finely ground pepper$0.32
  • 3 tablespoons of fine salt$0.12
  • frying oil$0.28

Total$3.75

that's $0.94 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1 kg of large, old-fashioned yellow apples
  • One and a half lemons
  • 3 tablespoons of coarse salt
  • 3 teaspoons of finely ground pepper
  • 3 tablespoons of fine salt
  • frying oil

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