Cheesy Chips

Ever miss that crunchy texture that foods like chips and crackers used to provide? Don’t reach for the saltines! There is a better way.

homemade healthy chips Cheesy Chips

When you want a healthy alternative to chips and need a break from carrots and celery for dipping into sauces, try these cheese chips. They have one ingredient: cheese! These certainly aren’t an every day food, but if you are craving chips, this is a much healthier alternative than the Doritos aisle!

Cheesy Chips
 
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Baked cheese forms a crispy and salty snack.
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Recipe type: Snack

Ingredients
  • Cheese of choice

Instructions
  1. Very lightly oil a cookie sheet with olive oil (very lightly!) or use a silicon baking mat.
  2. Put small piles or folded slices of cheese onto the cookie sheet. I recommend cheddar, real grated parmesan, asiago or other firm cheese. I haven’t tried mozzarella, jack, colby, etc.
  3. Turn the oven on Broil and put the cheese in.
  4. Watch carefully for cheese to bubble and start to turn brown.
  5. Just as they brown around the edges, remove them and use thin spatula to remove from cookie sheet.
  6. When cooled, use just as you would chips for snacking or dipping into homemade sauces.

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  • http://alifeofabandon.blogspot.com/2011/03/40-day-challenge-and-my-thoughts-on.html BeckyD

    We love cheese crackers! I do a jack colby blend cracker quite often. Also, I do mine on parchment paper, and they slide right off easily! (you can reuse the parchment for several batches too.) Try them with guacamole – Heaven!

  • http://profiles.google.com/skydisco3 Sarah Smith

    Mmm, I really need to try making these!

  • Colleen

    Maybe I am confused, but I thought avoiding dairy was part of the diet?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    For the most part, it is, but for those who don’t have an allergy, these are an occasional treat, and much better than chips fried in vegetable oils :-)

  • Leah H

    My husband and I both loved these! Thanks! At first I didn’t cook them long enough to make them crispy, and then I learned that if you wait until they mostly quit bubbling they are perfect. Chips are one of my weaknesses and I’m excited to find something that can substitute. I like that I can control the portions by only cooking just enough.

  • Melissa Waldrop

    Yummy! Made them to go with our chili tonihht. Great substitute for cheese crackers and/or grilled cheese sandwiches!

  • Kellie Dawson

    I failed at this big time. Maybe I cooked it too long. Maybe my slices were too thin. Next time I will use parchment paper as I am having to chisel them off my baking sheets. No worries as I’ll just use the crumbs in fish breading tonight. Interestingly enough the Hickory Farms cheese didn’t melt, didn’t bubble, didn’t do anything. What do they make that out of?! Tillamook worked just fine. Operator error.

  • Nicole

    I love these chips, but I have 2 problems with them.
    1) I can’t stop eating them.
    2) I’m lactose intolerant. lol.
    I can usually tolerate small amounts of dairy, but I had some earlier today and apparently have now had too much.
    I might not be able to make these as often as I’d like to.

    Parchment paper helps the chips slide right off. Some cheeses have a lot of fat (we all know that). It might take longer for these cheeses to crisp. To help it along, use a spatula and move the cheese out of the oil puddle to a clean section of the baking pan. Or, what I did (by accident, because they weren’t crisp enough)…let them cool, flip, put back in oven until lightly browned.

  • Nicole

    I miss pretzels. I love the flavor of the outside of the pretzel, and the salt.
    Do you have anything to help with that?