Nacho Cheese Kale Chips

Do you love cheese? Are you sad to give it up? Well, these Raw, Vegan chips will fill the void!

Nacho Cheese Sauce:

This basic cheese sauce is kid friendly:

3 Large Sweet Red Bell Peppers

3/4 Cup Raw or Roasted Cashews

1/4 Cup Pine Nuts

1/4 Cup Hemp Seeds

1 Cup Raw Sunflower Seeds

3/4 Cup Lemon Juice

1/3 Cup Nutritional Yeast

1 Teaspoon Celtic Sea Salt

1/2 Cup Water

Spicy Options:

2 Fresh Red Chilli Peppers with half the seeds 

And/OR

1 Tbsp. Crushed Dried Chilli Flakes

And/OR

2-5 Jalepeno Peppers (with the seeds!).

3 cloves fresh garlic

1 Tb. Onion Powder

Chips:

3 Large Bunches Organic Curly Kale, washed and de-stemed

Instructions:

Wash the Kale and tear into chip size pieces. Blend the Nacho Cheese Sauce ingredients in a high speed blender. Pour over the Kale pieces and massage the sauce gently into the leaves until they are coated well.

On a dehydrator sheet (fitted with the paraflex non-stick sheets) lay the cheesy kale on it. You may have to open a few leaves (lay flat). Dehydrate for 8 hours at 115 degrees. I do this at night and then when you get up in the morning they are ready to be flipped onto the dehydrator grid sheets. Dehydrate another 6 hours. They will be crispy when done.

These are better than cheetos and better than Doritos!! You are going to love them! Especially if are like me and are determined to eat more greens and stay away from processed junk food :)

Say, Aloha! to Whole Food, Fast Food!!!! Eat these at work or the movies! Anytime!

You have the choice to eat the Monosodium Glutimate (a proven nuero-toxin) found in cheetos and chips, OR, all of this nourishing produce instead!

Lemons, Nutritional Yeast, and Celtic Sea Salt really give this an intense sharp cheddar cheese flavor! You won't even taste the Kale :) These are also loaded with protien!

Wash the Kale. De-stem and tear into chip size pieces. (Just look at all that gorgeous organic Kale!!!).

Blend up your Nacho Cheese Sauce!

Pour the Nacho Cheese Sauce over the top and massage it into the leaves.

This is the consistency you are looking for...

You will need a dehydrator for this. I love the Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator - Black.

Lay the Cheesy Coated Kale out on Paraflex- Non-Stick Trays. This should cover about 4 trays....

These are SO GOOD they will RAWK your World with deliciousness!

Don't let the dehydrating time discourage you. These take only about 30 minutes to whip together and place on the trays. Do it before bed and then flip them in the morning. Then after work they are ready!! This makes a whole bag too!

Happy Snacking!