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Homemade Beet Chips

Beet Chips

Course Snack
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 4 beets peel left on, sliced very thinly (a mandolin makes this quick work)
  • 1 cup duck fat or fat of your choice. If you do not have access to an animal fat, I would recommend coconut oil, since it does not oxidize at high temperatures
  • a few sprigs of thyme or rosemary
  • sea salt

Instructions

  1. Pour duck fat into a skillet over medium-high heat and let it become quite hot.
  2. Try tossing (gently!) a tester chip in and see if it fries immediately upon fat bath entry. Yes? Then sound the horn and begin your frying!
  3. Work in batches, letting each chip brown on one side before flipping to the other.
  4. Remove chips to a paper towel or brown paper bag to drain excess oil, and sprinkle each batch with sea salt while still hot.
  5. Once all chips have been fried, carefully--herbs will spurt and sputter--fry the thyme or rosemary sprigs to serve along with your basket of beets.
  6. One beet serves roughly one person, but honey, please... these go fast and we all know serving size means nothing once fried.