It sounds like this might be controversial but I had great luck with kale chips, covered in oil, seasoned, then popped in a dehydrator.
I received feedback that others also enjoyed them:
Matt Goto wrote:I am chatting with Paul [Wheaton] and he has raved about some dried kale chips that you had made[...]
A delight to be sure!
To be fair, the dehydrator I used wasn't simply "any old dehydrator" but the magical
Solar Food Dehydrator with Rocket Boost currently at Wheaton Labs. And to be ultra fair, I accidentally left the chips in there for about 5 days, in September, after running the rocket multiple times on Days 1-3.
So, suffice it to say, the below recipe requires an extended drying period and might not even work in a standard electric dehydrator.
Rough Recipe:
Destem, Tear into smallish pieces, Wash, then Dry the kale (I used both standard green and red), making sure to take a picture for
the badge bit:
Put them in large containers/bowls, coat them fairly heavily with oil of your choice (I used pure, organic avocado oil), season to taste (I used garlic powder, onion powder, Himalayan pink salt, and perhaps some black pepper), then tote them all down to your rocket dehydrator:
Evenly space them out on the racks with decent air gaps between them all:
Fire up the rocket a few times and let them get ultra crispy over multiple days (or maybe it wouldn't take that long in the height of summer?):
Step back and admire the dehydrator for the magnificent appliance it is:
Et voilĂ ! Chips others might even rave about
A very similar method worked well for sweet potatoes as well (the white and purply things in the bowl in the bottom left corner of image one) - though I did use a mandoline slicer to get them really thin.
