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My VitaMix Anti Aging Cheezilicious Kale Chips not only satisfy your munchies, but nourish you fully – physically, emotionally and mentally. They fill you up with crunchy goodness.
Don’t miss out on these. I show you how easy they are to make and eat! If I can do it, so can you.
For the chips:
- 2 bunches dinosaur kale, washed, de-stemmed
For the cheezilicious sauce:
- 2 cups cashews, soaked for 30 minutes, well drained, pat dry
- 1 red bell pepper, washed, seeded, quartered
- Juice from one lemon
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
Now watch my video and see how easy it is! Jane. Make these and post your comments and questions!
TRANSCRIPT of this video:
The first thing you need to do is get yourself 2 bunches of dinosaur kale. Put them in the sink and wash them up good. Really good. You want all those little nooks and crannies clean. And then what I do with them, is I take them off of the stems, put them into my lettuce spinner and dry them up. And if you take all the water off of them, your cheez sauce is going to stick to them much better, and you’re going to get a wonderful product that looks just like this.
After I wash them, take the stems off and spin dry them, I put them into a big bowl. We want them to remain big pieces and when we’re massaging the cheezalicious sauce into them, you can tear them up a little bit, but you really don’t have to be concerned with that step. When they dry up in the dehydrator, they become, for some reason, the perfect size. So, for the cheez sauce, we need 2 cups of cashews which I soaked, drained and patted dry, or you can let them air dry.
One red bell pepper, I seeded it and quartered it, the juice of one lemon and 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast flakes and one teaspoon of sea salt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, that’s five ingredients, which I cut down from the average, you know, 8 or 9. Blend it up in the VitaMix and look at the beautiful, thick, creamy cheezy sauce that you have. We’re going to pour it over the big bowl of kale leaves and begin massaging. This is the fun part. Massage, massage, massage that kale, get all of that cheezy goodness into every nook and cranny. Just keep going for a few minutes and if you find really big pieces, sure, you can tear them apart a little bit as you’re massaging, but that’s all you need to do on that aspect of it. When it’s fully massaged, we’re going to lay it out on the dehydrator trays.
I happen to have a 4 tray Excalibur dehydrator. This was a gift, and I don’t use it every day but when I need it I’m sure glad I have it. For some reason I don’t have any of those Teflex sheets that come with it so I use parchment paper. It cost a couple bucks, $2.99, $3.50, something like that, at the market, and no matter what I put on it, it doesn’t stick to it, so if you don’t have the non-sticky sheets that go in your dehydrator, just cut up some parchment paper and you’ll be fine.
Out of these two big bunches of kale, I made three sheets or three dehydrator trays of kale chips. Set it to 105 degrees and walk away. I go to sleep. So this dehydrated from about 7:30pm last night to about 7:30 this morning by the time I got to it. That was 12 hours. I didn’t have to flip them. I never checked them. And I know from experience that had I forgotten about them and come back 5, 10 hours later, they still would have been fine. But they were perfect with 12 hours in the dehydrator. And here is the finished product. Is it not beautiful?
Look at those cheezy, beautiful kale chips. Look at the way they are covered and the cheez sauce, I don’t know what else to call it, I guess I could call it a cashew sauce, but the cheezilicious sauce is truly coated on the kale and I know that’s from two things; making the sauce thick and two, spin drying the kale, just a quick step that only takes a second, but it’s worth doing. I have to taste one of these for you, they’re just so delicious, look.
Mmm, can you hear the crunch? I can hear it, mmm, this is not just a snack, it’s a food. A nutrient dense, fully noursishing, emotionally, physchologically and physically. It’s just so wonderful. Yes, they’re messy.
When you’re sitting down watching a movie, when you’re on the road, when you’re at the office, when you’re busy and you want something crunchy, but you don’t want the spikes that come with it or the moods that come with it, or the icky feeling that comes with it… you want to treat yourself well, you want to treat yourself like you’re something, and you are. Make these kale chips and eat them.
QUESTION: Do you have any kale chip shortcuts? If so, bring them on. Use the comment box below. Thanks! Jane.
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[..YouTube..] Looks so yummy and crunchy!! Looks like they hit the crunch spot…
[..YouTube..] @theknuts6 You gotta try these.Jane
[..YouTube..] Awesome Jane! I’ve made this cheese sauce before (something similar) and it is AMAZING! What I did was slather the sauce on raw nori sheets and dehydrated a few hrs until the sauce is dry and then cut them into chip (dorito) shapes and dried until crispy. AMAZING! They taste like cool ranch doritos! I’ll be these taste similar. Going to give it a try! I get my vitamix TOMORROW! OMG!!!!
[..YouTube..] @PapillonPower It’s exciting to get the VitaMix. Are you going to make videos? I’d love to see what you come up with, so I hope so!Jane
[..YouTube..] Wow, you ACTUALLY did this! Thanks so much, I really want to try this, but I need a dehydrator…..
I heard from your previous video that you have a really long list to get through, so I’ll come up with a few recipes in about a month and send them to you.
[..YouTube..] @TheLoserKingdom Hi Josh,They happened out of the blue. I was getting nudged in the kale chip direction by you and others and am so glad I made them. They are so good everybody wants more! Thanks for the suggestion.Jane
[..YouTube..] Are the cashews raw or roasted?
[..YouTube..] @zontask The cashews are raw. I soaked them for about an hour and then drained them. if you use raw cashews without soaking them, you may need to add a tablespoon of water.I also use this cheez as a veggie dip. And sometimes the kale chips never make it to the dehydrator because I eat it as a salad, that’s how good it is.:)Jane
[..YouTube..] I don’t have a dehydrator and won’t be able to afford one right now. Anything else i can do?
[..YouTube..] @ilinaeternity Even though I haven’t tried it myself, I have read on some internet sites about making kale chips in the oven on its lowest setting, keeping them in until crispy. If you try it, let me know how they turn out.:)Jane
[..YouTube..] @blenditandMendit k thanks !
[...] toast to go with the soup). He was starting to break . . . he liked the soup. And THEN, I made your Cheezalicious Kale Chips tonight. They are in the dehydrator right now (well, the ones that didn’t go right into my [...]
[..YouTube..] Thank you for posting this wonderful recipe! I have made this again and again!
[..YouTube..] @ladycomet72 You’re welcome! I now make triple batches, some for the dehydrator and some to eat as is for salad.Glad you like it.
Jane
[..YouTube..] Darn!! I just sold my excalibur 9-tray on craigslist because I never used it.
[..YouTube..] @JuliRafMardieta You can try the oven at 350 for about 10-15 minutes depending on how hot your oven runs – keep an eye on them.
I am so going to try this, but I don’t have a dehydrator. I’ll let you know how they come out for me. I use nutritional yeast on organic popcorn…YUMMY!
Many people put them in the oven on low – I think 250 or below – you can google it – enjoy them!
Thank you so much for this recipe. It looks wonderful. I love that you simplified the sauce ingredients too.
Hi Anna,
This has become a fave of mine – and the last three or so times I made it, not a bite made it to the dehydrator. I ended up eating it as kale salad.
It is so satisfying and full of flavor. The batch lasts me 2 days!
This recipe has become not only my favorite kale chip recipe but one of my staple meals.
I’m glad you like it.
Jane
Why dinosaur kale? I think I have the other curlier leaf kale. Does it not work as well?
You can use any variety of kale, but dino kale keeps its shape and holds up under the cheeze sauce better.
If using curly kale, keep the leaves big, that will help.
I made these delicious chips too, but they got soggy when stored in a zip lock bag. Anybody else have this problem, and a solution for it?
Hi Sue,
I store mine in a zip-loc bag, too (when they last long enough) and they don’t get soggy, so I think
yours may have not been dried fully and still retained moisture.
Did they have a crispy crunch to them?
Next time, just eat them all
OMG these are amazing! I don’t have a dehydrator so I did them in the oven at 170 degrees for 1 hour then turned the oven off for 20min, then back on for 20min. If they weren’t crispy then, I left them in there (with oven off) until they were. Wow. The sauce reminds me of pimento spread
And I have plenty of it left over. Will use it as a veggie dip I think for the rest of the week. Can’t wait for my son to wake up from his nap and try these!
Hi Jackie,
Glad you like them! I know what you mean – sometimes I make the cheez and use it as a dip or eat the kale mix as a salad before it makes it to the dehydrator.
thanks Jane for recipe.
You’re welcome.
I just bought my first Vita Mix. Thank you for all the recipes. It helps me get brave enough to try out my new machine.
Hi Julie,
You’re welcome! I wish you as much fun and wellbeing from your VitaMix as I get from mine. Mine is almost 7 years old and still going strong.
Hi Jane,
I was trying to subscribe to your site and was not able to get any response from the page (it said to click “here”) on the video I was watching. Also, I have the 3 green smoothie recipes but did you mention another collection of yours? How do I access this also?
I love your site. You are so enthusiastic and down to earth.
Liz
Hi Liz,
My apologies for the confusion. I will check the video and see why the link doesn’t work (sometimes the YouTube links don’t transfer with the video).
I did have other e-books but have taken them down as I am merging and redesigning them into one book, which I hope will be available soon.
Thank you for your kind words and support. I appreciate it.