‘0’ Oil Baked Eggplant Chips

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You heard Zero Oil Chips or Oven Baked Eggplant Chips with No Oil and your happiness can’t be suppressed at any cost!!! And it gets doubled up if it’s Friday again. Finally another busy devastating week has come to an end. I’m personally happy for this one. It got me bad health, lots of pressure and a real bad deadline. But now the bad dream is over and I’ve got a nice weekend to freshen up. And I have got bowlful of No Oil Chips in hand. By the way how was your week?

I’m sure many of you are just like me who like to live on happiness of life; who believes happiness can be find in small things of life. Just like having dinners with family; spending weekends with dear ones. But there is another kind of happiness for me which actually starts from my tummy. Each weekend I try to cook/ bake something new for my family and for me. Oh yes! I find pleasures of life in these small details.

Okay enough of emotion now back to our dish of the day! Today I’ve picked the recipe of Zero Oil Baked Eggplant Chips. As the name suggests it literally uses no oil, no butter, no grease at all. Its oven baked chips. Not your regular potato chips; it’s Eggplant chips. But I bet you won’t be able to spot the difference. In fact once you start flipping the chips between your fingers you won’t be able to stop munching it. Now don’t blame me for that. LOL.

Here is the recipe of Zero Oil Baked Eggplant Chips.

Preparation Time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 25 mins

Resting Time: 0 mins

Total Time: 30 mins

Yield: 1 dozen chips

Ingredients:

Eggplant: 1, medium

Egg: 1

Breadcrumbs: 1 cup

Black pepper powder: ½ tsp

Paprika powder: 1 tsp

Garlic Salt: ½ tsp (or according to taste)

Parmesan powder: 2 tsp (optional)

For the Topping: (optional)

Olives: 10-14, thinly sliced

Jalapeno: 2, thinly sliced

Cream cheese: 1 tsp per chips

Red hot sauce: 2 tbsp

Spicy Green Mole Sauce: 2 tbsp

Equipment:

Parchment paper: 2 sheets

Non-stick Baking pan

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 180⁰C. Line the baking pan with parchment paper. (See Tips)

Wash and clean the eggplant. Pat it dry with kitchen towel. Chop-off the stem and cut the eggplant into thin round slices. Make the roundels as thin as possible. (See Tips)

Take a medium bowl and beat the egg lightly in it. Take a deep bottomed flat plate and fill it with breadcrumbs. Mix garlic salt with paprika powder, black pepper powder, parmesan powder(if using these) with the breadcrumbs.

Take a slice of eggplant and dip in beaten egg and roll in seasoned breadcrumbs. Place on previously prepared baking pan. (See Tips)

Bake the chips at 180⁰C for 15 mins. Flip once and bake for another 10 mins. by the time chips will be nicely browned and crisp.

Remove from oven immediately and serve with hot sauce and spicy green mole sauce. Or you can top with cream cheese, slices of jalapeno, olive and dash of hot sauce and mole sauce.

I prefer to have these No Oil Baked Eggplant Chips with a cup, nope a mug of strong evening tea to release my day’s stress. I never tried to store these Zero Oil Chips so really can’t comment on their behavior while stored. If you can find success on that don’t forget to fill me up. I’m all Ears.

Tips:

1. Use non-stick baking pan as no oil will be used in this recipe.

2. Before you start working with the recipe make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature.

3. There shouldn’t be any water drops on eggplant. It should be neatly wiped off.

4. If eggplant slices are thick, chips will not be crispy at all. And the cooking time will be longer also.

5. Always work on single piece of eggplant. Don’t dump two pieces together in egg or breadcrumbs. Thus you will end up in a big mess.

6. Arrange the breaded eggplant slices in the pan in a single layer. Don’t overlap them. Otherwise chips will not be cooked thoroughly and will result in lumpy damp chips.

Have a Fun filled Weekend!