Making corn chips right now.

[juliebove]

My fruit roll sheets and mesh sheets came today for my dehydrator and I couldn't wait to use them! I also couldn't decide on a corn chip recipe. There were so many!

I bought some more corn at the store today. Used those and what I already had. That was a total of 6 ears of yellow corn and another of mixed yellow and white.

I cut the corn from the 7 ears of corn, added the juice of a lime, a small yellow onion, chopped, about 1 T. coconut oil, drizzle of olive oil,and salt, pepper, nutritional yeast and chili powder to taste. Mixed it all up in the food processor, then added about 2 T. flax seeds, briefly soaked.

The mixture tasted so good I wanted to just put it all in a bowl and eat it like that! I just hope it comes out well as chips!

For those of you who have made corn chips and said they came out too sweet: Did the mixture taste too sweet before the chips were dehydrated?

[juliebove]

Not so sure this is working. It's approaching 7 hours in the dehydrator. The stuff is starting to stink now and is nowhere close to being dried out. I jumped the gun on the one tray that was only partially filled. It seemed like it would come out so I could flip it over. Wrong! Much of it stuck to the sheet. I was able to scrape off some little chunks and put them on the mesh sheet where they curled up miserably into little blobs. I had turned the heat up slightly hoping this would help. But I just can't stay up any longer. So I turned the heat back down and am going to bed. I did try to score the mixture into chips as I'd seen to do in one recipe and this didn't work very well either because it's sticking in spots to the sheets. Just sort of blobbed it up. It no longer seems to taste like corn either. Not sure exactly what it does taste like but it's neither really good or bad. Sort of reminds me of the flax crackers I bought. Perhaps because of the flax seeds I put in there. Maybe a miracle will happen while I sleep! *crossing fingers*

[jaurequi]

Good luck :)

Next time, add grain to your corn chips; that is what made mine turn out crispy.

Best,

[rawpriestess]

I use flax seed meal in mine, with alot of spices, and onion, garlic, lime and olive oil, and it comes out crispy, and yummy, I do spread them pretty thick though, as I don't like them lacey at all.

[juliebove]

I use flax seed meal in mine, with alot of spices, and onion, garlic, lime and olive oil, and it comes out crispy, and yummy, I do spread them pretty thick though, as I don't like them lacey at all.

The full trays seem to be thicker. I think the stuff in the partially filled tray got thinner simply because it had room to spread out. The ones in the partial tray could not be cut into chip shapes. I think I tried to do this too early. Since they came off in little chunks, they resemble corn flakes. And the taste is similiar to some kind of highly sweetened breakast cereal. Granola perhaps? I'm not really sure. I never ate much cereal. Never cared for it. It does remind me of something I've had in the past.

I think perhaps I should have processed the mix a lot more or something. I did use a scraper and stirred it well (at least I thought I did) when I put in the flax seeds. However, the mix does not seem to be evenly seasoned. I gave my daughter a piece and at first she said "Mmmmm!" But then she said "Yuck!" and threw the piece away. This was sort of my thought too. The first taste on the tongue is sweet. Too sweet for me. Like honey or sugar. But then there are overly salty spots. And some sort of taste that simply isn't good. I don't know how to describe it except for a "dead" taste. Like maybe something stale or past its prime.

The little chip pieces are neither crispy nor chewy. They are more like the flax crackers I bought. Light and sort of puffed full of air. This is not a texture I like.

Guess it's back to the drawing board for this one! But perhaps they will taste different after they cool and set up for a while. The raisins sure did. They were so sweet they were inedible when warm from the dehydrator. They were better later on. But nobody really liked them much so I threw them away.

[rawnpawgirl]

the recipe for Jalapeno corn chips from Raw Food, Real World is soooo tasty! I use frozen corn because they don't have a weird aftertaste (Alissa recommends it in her book also)

[juliebove]

I didn't want to use jalapenos because I don't really like spicy chips. I like a spicy salsa to dip the chip in, but I don't like heat in the chips. If I make them again I might try freezing the corn. But I'm thinking I won't make them again. I'm very much a texture person when it comes to food and I don't like this texture. The odor of them in the dehydrator is also making me nauseaus. It's really beginning to smell like vomit and that's not good! Perhaps that was the addition of nutritional yeast? Not sure. I've put it in things that I've baked for my daughter and they didn't have an "off" aroma.

[exurb]

juliebove, I like the recipe in Raw Food Real World, slightly modified.

It's not oversweet when I make it. I think their spices, mexican chili powder and ground cumin if I remember correctly, help balance that out, as well as the other ingredients that sort of dilute out the corn a little.

The sweetness might also have to do with the corn I use, we grow some corn (mostly common heirlooms) and buy some from farms that is not the oversweetened "sugary enhanced" corns that have become so common now, with the sugar gene doubled to make them sweeter.

If you shop at any farmers markets you could ask if they have a corn that is less sweet. Most people have now been conditioned to have their corn taste over-the-top sweet, compared to the old corns that people used to grow, so most farmers are growing "SE" (sugary enhanced) corn.

[jjaj2022]

[QUOTE=juliebove] But I just can't stay up any longer. So I turned the heat back down and am going to bed. QUOTE]


My dehydrator did not come with a timer but I bought one of those electrical outlet timers. You just plug the dehydrator into the timer which plugs into the wall and then you can set it so dehydrating does not affect your bedtime. :)

Last time I used nutritional yeast in the dehydrator, it made the whole house smell very odd. The smell almost made me sick to my stomach.

[juliebove]

[QUOTE=juliebove] But I just can't stay up any longer. So I turned the heat back down and am going to bed. QUOTE]


My dehydrator did not come with a timer but I bought one of those electrical outlet timers. You just plug the dehydrator into the timer which plugs into the wall and then you can set it so dehydrating does not affect your bedtime. :)

Last time I used nutritional yeast in the dehydrator, it made the whole house smell very odd. The smell almost made me sick to my stomach.

Aha! That must be it then. I suspect it too is the reason they have that odd taste to them. If I do make them again I will leave it out and also make them thicker. Now that they've cooled, they taste better, although every once in a while I am getting an odd taste. But what I don't care for is the texture. Reminds me of eating frosted flakes of cereal or something and I just don't like cereal.