Oven-baked potato crisps

Today I was looking for a side dish for the pork tenderloin I was planning to grill. I settled on potatoes, but to avoid boiling them or making them overly greasy, I chose very thin slices baked in the oven. Spicy (with a generous dose of black pepper, that is) and aromatic (with plenty of caraway seeds).

Very easy to prepare, they don’t take particularly long to bake (although it is a whole hour), and they’re perfect as a side dish.

It’s true that I haven’t been cooking much lately. Somehow I still haven’t got into the Christmas spirit, probably because there’s no snow. It gets me down when it’s dark at 15.30, and that’s probably why I no longer feel like making anything in the evenings, not even Christmas bakes (such as poppy seed roll). Perhaps the mood will still strike me?

But I do have to eat sometimes. So I recommend these simple, primitive oven-baked crisps (although they’re not quite crisps), or perhaps simply perfect oven-baked potato slices. Give them a try 🙂

At a glance:

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Baking time: 55 minutes

Baking temperature: 190 degrees Celsius (convection baking, meaning with a fan; if you don’t have one, bake at 210 degrees Celsius)

Serves: 1 person, but you can add more ingredients and make enough for as many as you like 🙂

Calories: almost as though they weren’t crisps

Ingredients for spicy caraway crisps:

• 4 potatoes
• 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds
• 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil
• salt

How to make thin oven-baked potato slices:

It’s ridiculously simple. I peeled the potatoes and cut them into thin slices (like crisps, each 2 – 3 millimetres thick). I spread them on a large piece of aluminium foil and folded up the sides of the foil. I sprinkled them with the seasonings (salt, pepper and caraway seeds) and drizzled with olive oil. I put them in the oven set to 190 degrees Celsius (convection baking).

After 30 minutes, I gently stirred them and baked for about another 25 minutes. After 55 minutes in the oven, the baked potatoes—or the perfect crisps to go with dinner—are ready. Enjoy!