Potato Chips Food Cooking International Guide

Potato Chips Can Improve Favourite Recipes

By Barry J Smallhorn

Potato chips are popular on many dinner tables around the world. There are even shops selling only fish and chips and make a roaring trade. Your options are to make your own chips in the kitchen, buy frozen chips from the food store or buy cooked chips from the fish and chips shop.

I like to cook my own chips, starting with whole potatoes, slice them, add a few herbs like oregano, sprinkled with hot pepper powder and I have a delicious side serving of hot chips, placed next to the salad. You can even make a version of a potato salad using potato chips as your potatoes.

There are tips and ideas you can improve your recipes with potato chips.

Adding Potato Chips To Your Favourite Recipes

You may have a craving for something salty each night, and that might mean that you have a stash of potato chips in your home. These are often what most like, and that can be confirmed by looking at how many different types are offered when you shop at your local grocery store.

You can eat them plain, or you can have them with your favorite type of dip. What you may not realize is that you can use these to make some of your more common recipes just a bit different and a whole lot tastier.

Switch To Potato Chips When Breading

You can use potato chips in many places where you would use some types of breading. When you are making fish, pork chops, or fried chicken, you can use these chips in the place of some of your more common breading.

You can make up your own by finding a recipe for breading and then tweaking it so that you can add the potato chips. You can also mess around in your kitchen so that you can come up with your very own chip breading for the various meals you cook at home. You can use larger chunks, or you can grind them up finely.

Holiday Stuffing For Christmas And Thanksgiving

You can also use potato chips in some of the other foods that you make. You may find that they make a tasty addition to your holiday stuffing. You can add them to what you normally make if you want to.

You should make sure you chop them up finely for this, and then mix in about a cup or two to add a very good potato taste. No one will know that you use the chips, but will love the new taste that will not overpower the stuffing, but rather, will add an extra touch to enhance your already tasty recipe. If you aren’t sure how much to use, do a trial run or two until you come up with the best recipe.

Baking With Potatoes In The Oven

You can even use your potato chips to add something to the potatoes that you make for dinner. You can use them as a breading to small chunks of potatoes and then bake them in the oven, much like you would if you were making French fries.

You can add a bit of oil to help the potato chips to adhere to the potatoes, and then bake them until they are golden brown. You can also add spices of your own choosing, and then make them differently each time. They may soon become family favorites that you will want to make time and time again.

A Side Dish To The Main Meal

There are many ways you can enhance your family meals with a bowl of hot potato chips, as a side dish, next to the salad. Some members of your family may not like to eat the salad, but may be find eating the salad with potato chips, much more delicious. Another idea is to blend the potato chips with herbs and spices. Red hot pepper sprinkled on chips, is especially popular in my family.

You can serve potato chips as savories at a dinner party. Some guests may be vegetarians and cannot eat the roast lamb, but may gravitate to a couple of bowls of hot chips, made much more delicious with herbs and spices.

Knowing The Diet Requirements Of Your Guests

The success of your party depends on appealing to the tastes of all your guests. This is why you need to place a number of bowls of delicious salads, with a little card, stating the content of the salad. Some people may be on a diet and cannot eat certain ingredients in food due to their diet guidelines, so you need to ensure you cater to their dietary requirements.

Potato chips are often, the most popular food in many parties and family gatherings.

About the Author:
Barry J Smallhorn has written a number of articles on cocktails and food recipes. See also Potato Recipes, Cocktail Recipes, Food Recipes, Fresh Seafood, Tuna Fish, Caviar, Beef Jerky Meat recipes, Organic Gift Baskets, Personalised Wine Bottles, Seafood Recipes, Wine Storage Facility, Wine Racks.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.

Did You Know?

What are the kitchen basics I need?
Kitchen basics that every kitchen should have are pots and pans (in a variety of sizes), measuring cups, measuring spoons, mixing bowls and an assortment of kitchen gadgets that make life easier.

One of these gadgets is a can opener. Being forced to saw off the bottom of a can could take a little of the fervor away from cooking. Also consider keeping whisks, spatulas and tongs as part of your cooking basics.

Another item basic that is used often is a drainer/strainer. These can come in the form of bowls or be part of a boiling pan set. It is used to drain spaghetti water from the pasta or can be used for anything similar.