a delectable spread for crackers or vegetables.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 4 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- ¼ cup lime juice
- ¼ cup water
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 Granny Smith apple, sliced into 1/16-inch thick rounds
- 1 red apple (such as Paula), sliced into 1/16-inch thick rounds
- fleur de sel (sea salt) to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees F (77 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and lightly oil the paper.
- Stir lime juice, water, and sugar in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Soak apple slices in lime juice mixture to combine flavors, 2 to 5 minutes. Drain and discard liquid.
- Arrange apple slices in a single layer about 1/8-inch apart on prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle with Fleur de Sel.
- Bake apples in the preheated oven until dried and crisp, about 4 hours. Cool completely before carefully peeling from the parchment.
- Use a mandoline to slice the apples.
Reviews
They were delicious! The lime juice gave them just enough extra flavor!
The sweetness of the apples intensifies as the apple slices bake, and although a cinnamon-sugar mixture is traditional on apple chips, I think the sea salt provides a fabulous contrast to the sweetness. I baked these for four hours at 170 degrees F, and they weren’t even close to being done, so I bumped up the temperature to 225 for the fifth and final hour. These apple chips are divine, but in the future, I will try cooking them at 225, five hours is just too long.