Craving a crunchy snack? These Baked Spicy Swiss Chard Chips are a fun, healthy twist on classic kale chips—and just as easy to make. This will quickly become your new favorite way to eat your greens!
Have you joined the kale chips band-wagon? It’s an ingenious way to get your salty chip fix and eat a healthy green at the same time. I know, it’s not exactly the same as a potato chip, but it’s a great alternative if you are watching your carb intake while you get a jump start on your new year’s resolution.
I like keeping either kale or Swiss chard in the fridge for a number of reasons. So why not make some Swish chard chips?
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Recipe highlights
- Family Friendly: I don’t need to convince you that eating your greens is good for you. But these chard chips are a fun way to go beyond the salad and the vitamins your body needs. It is a great way to introduce greens to children or any big kid who shies away from eating their vegetables!
- Simple: It is super easy to make your own vegetable chips. If you have a garden overflowing with chard, kale or spinach, you only need some olive oil and seasonings to make this recipe.
- Flavor: The chips are actually crispy in texture and taste like chard. The extra seasonings give it a nice flavor and it honestly helps curb my salty snack cravings!
Reader’s Reviews
“I made this recipe with Swiss chard. Oh my goodness it is so good! Me and my kids ate them right up.” — Deva
Ingredients you need
- Swiss chard leaves: This technique can be used to make chips with any leafy green vegetables.
- Extra virgin olive oil: Since the ingredient list is small, you want to use fresh ingredients at the peak of flavor. You could use vegetable oil, but it is bland and can add a bad after taste. Extra virgin olive oil can give a little or a lot of flavor to your chard chips. You can choose a mild or peppery olive oil. Just be sure to taste it by itself to make sure it isn’t rancid.
- Seasonings: kosher salt, garlic powder, chile powder
Step-by-step directions
- Cut the chard. Whether you are making kale chips or chard chips, the concept is the same. Cut up your chard leaves into equal pieces. I chose to cut mine into 2-3 inch pieces. Remove the stems and use in another recipe.
- Coat in oil. Toss the leaves with a bit of extra virgin olive oil, coating both sides.
- Season the chard. Season with sea salt, spicy chile powder (or mild if you prefer), garlic powder, or whatever spices you like.
- Bake. I don’t have a dehydrator so I just bake the chard leaves in a 275º F oven for 40 minutes. You do need to flip them over halfway through baking, but they crisp up beautifully.
Recipe tips and FAQs
I have seen online that this technique can also be used for spinach and lettuce chips, you just have to reduce the cooking time as they are not as thick as chard or kale. You can also bake sweet potato chips and bake sunchoke chips (Jerusalem artichoke chips).
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Since you only use the leaves for the chard chips, don’t throw out the chard stems. You can also chop up the stems and add them to Pickled Chard Stems or any other favorite soup.
And for ways to add greens to your diet, like kale and chard, check out this great article from Shockingly Delicious!
So grab a bowl and snack on, my friends!
Storing/Freezing Instructions
TO STORE: Chard chips are best eaten right away. You can store leftovers in an airtight container and leave on the counter up for 2-3 days.
Both the leaves and the stems from Swiss chard are edible and both can be eaten raw or cooked. The stems offer crunch to a salad and can be added to soups or stews. You can even pickle them!
There are a number of different ways you can enjoy chard. It can be eaten raw and served in a salad. You can bake the leaves to make chard chips. Chard can be prepared like spinach or kale and cooked in a variety of dishes like creamed spinach, soups, and stews. You can also pickle the stems for a unique treat!
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Baked Spicy Swiss Chard Chips
Ingredients
- 3 large Swiss chard leaves
- 2 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- pinch of garlic powder
- pinch of chile powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275ºF.
- Remove stem from Swiss chard leaves and cut into 2-3 inch pieces.
- Place cut leaves in one layer on a baking sheet and toss with olive oil.
- Season with salt, garlic powder and chile powder.
- Bake for 20 minutes, then turn leaves over and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- Let chard chips cool and serve.
Notes
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Written by Laura Bashar
Hi, I’m Laura, a certified professional cook and cookbook author living in San Diego. I have been sharing my family’s favorite recipes inspired from all over the world since 2008. Let’s cook up something fun!
Hopped over from a friend’s blog and happy I did – I am in the process of uploading pictures for my next post which is a taro leaf dolmidas – You have given me a new idea for them with this post – and I may have to ask the Chard to move over 🙂 just kidding – this is completely awesome and I cannot wait for my chard to grow big enough (if the deer will only allow it) – happy to follow your blog – please do visit and follow if you are inspired like I am 🙂… Read more »
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Those colors are gorgeous! What a great idea Laura. I think I hear another foodie trend starting. Thanks for sharing:)
So pretty! I’ve made kale chips before, but haven’t tried Swiss Chard Chips-going on my “to-do” list. I just made a kale pesto that turned out delicious-no promises, but you MIGHT like it 🙂
What a great idea! I love kale chips. These sound perfect.
yummy ! Never tried chard chips & these look delish ! Lovely pics too ! Am making it ! Pinned it too 🙂
I’ve tried kale this year, but haven’t tried chard yet – I love the color of chard and I’ve been curious for a while. I just checked the recipe and was surprised how easy this is. Gotta shop for chard now!!
What a good idea, and I love your stack of chips!
There’s nothing like trying to be healthy. I’ll tell my husband we are throwing out the chips and bringing in the chard. Close your ears. Really original idea someone had though.
I love chard gotta try these chips!
I never would have though of this… but they look so good.
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Kale chips are so 2010. LOL. These look lovely. I like the stacked presentation/photograph!
What a great recipe for chard! I’m always cooking it the same way and never thought to make chips out of it. I will be trying this for sure!
I really have to try these. I’ve been reading all about the kale chips, and really like the idea. Like you, I have a lot of Swiss chard in my garden – and I already substitute Swiss chard for a lot of kale recipes, so why not this, too? Really nice post – thanks.
what a terrific idea – I’m a big fan of kale chips but never considered trying this out with chard.
Fantastic!
OK, kale and chard on your side of the Pond. Neither is widely available here, but methinks fullsized silverbeet and fullsized bok choi [which we just about live on!] would make some interesting alternatives?! This does sound fun!! Do hope yo are having a great summer 🙂 !
yes! we do that! they are delicious
This looks wonderfully healthy