Homemade Cabbage Chips

Clicking with cabbage chips

Bat wings? Dragon skin? Something more sinister? Spin whichever tale you like, cabbage is patient. But would you believe these delicate chips are quite sweet? Their flavor profile differs substantially from fresh cabbage. A quick dunk in boiling, salted water takes away any inherent bitterness. If you’re into the kale chip trend, these are the next step. Crunch happy.

Most of my recipes are fast. Or they’re a few steps, and then the oven does the rest of the work.

Once in a while, however, my recipes take time. And it’s an intentional choice, this time in the kitchen. It’s for when you want to have your kitchen time be a moving meditation, you hear? When the world is quiet, or maybe it’s actually so very loud, that the kitchen is the refuge, the place of coming back to self.

Cabbage chips are light, yet who knew the intention could be drenched in meaning?

Turns out meditative practices do that. They make us think. So while you’re crunching on chips, you can be munching on mindfulness. It’s all cool.

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Homemade Cabbage Chips

Course Snack

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Drying Time 3 hours

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

• 1 cabbage of choice I use purple because duh, it looks like dragon skin!
• Some sea salt
• Your time

Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
2. While waiting, peel leaves off your cabbage and turn oven to 200 degrees.
3. Prepare two cookie sheets by placing wire racks within each. When water boils, boil cabbage leaves for two minutes (you may need to do this in batches).
4. Remove cabbage from water and plunge into a bowl of ice water to immediately stop the cooking process.
5. Thoroughly dry each leave (isn't this time intensive? It's meditative, too).
6. Arrange on the wire rack, then place in the oven to dry for three hours. You can also use a dehydrator, but they won't be as sweet!
7. Adjust this recipe to make as many chips as you like. Maybe start with the two baking sheets and go from there.
8. Possibly addictive. Next time, before you place in the oven, try sprinkling with salt, pepper or any spice you'd like.