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Junk food can be good for you, or at least that's what the chefs at Moto think! Here we have a recipe for Chips and Salsa... made out of granola bars.
Ingredients:
For Chips:
6 honey-almond granola bars
1 tablespoon salt
4 egg whites (possibly 2 more if needed)
1 teaspoon cumin seed
1/2 a teaspoon black pepper
For salsa:
4, 10 ounce bottles of Green "super" smoothie (which will produce about 1 cup of pulp)
1 cup water
1 small bunch cilantro - 1 small bunch
1/2 an onion, chopped
2 cloves of garlic
1 tomato
2 tablespoons salt
1 jalepeno
1 tablespoon Agar-agar
Procedure:
For Chips:
Freeze-dry granola bars overnight.
Combine all ingredients (granola, salt, egg whites, cumin and black pepper) in a food processor and blend to create a paste. If mixture is too thick to become a paste, add additional egg whites until it works.
Spread this mixture out on parchment paper (or non-stick silicone baking mat) in a thin layer, approximately 1/4 inch thick.
Using a wooden skewer or a dull knife, cut lines into the spread batter so that after they bake, you will be able to remove them as individual chips.
Bake at 300 degrees F until browned and dry.
Allow chips to cool, remove from tray
For Salsa
Pour super smoothies into a large-format centrifuge and spin until totally separated, about 10 minutes.
Decant liquid from separated juice, reserve separately from the solid mass leftover.
Combine solid leftover mass from centrifuge with all other ingredients (water, cilantro, onion, tomato, garlic, salt, jalepeno and agar-agar) in a blender and blend for 2 minutes.
Pour into a pot, bring to a boil, stirring and scraping bottom of pot periodically.
Allow to simmer for approximately 2 minutes, pour out into a shallow container and chill either over an ice bath or in the refrigerator.
Once chilled and firm, stir and break up with a fork.
Serve with chips
Editor's Note: for the purposes of the Future Food show, this recipe involved us using a centrifuge and a freeze-dryer to produce it. You could make the chips similarly by blending various whole grains with salt, pepper, spices and egg whites, then flattening this mixture out, cutting into triangles and baking until browned.
This recipe was featured in the Junk Food episode of Future Food
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