Back to indian roots: Indian style sun dried potato chips and sticks

My mother was a wonderful indian housewife and growing up with five beautiful elder sisters was also a beautiful experience. Instead of reading comics I grew up collecting recipes and beauty tips. Almost every day we used to try something new. When I am alone in this new place I remember a few very basic things which are inevitable part of Indian life, and western world has no idea that it exists.

Indian style sun dried potato chips and sticks 

Whenever I see winter of Europe I remember roof of my home, Indian tea with rich flavour of ginger and Indian Basil and Potato chips. Really in last two years I never enjoyed the potato chips that are available in markets. In fact I never bought chips from Indian market too. I belong to a village and my relatives load us with at least 10kg of Potatoes/sugarcane/ sweet potatoes in every visit. That’s where the story begins. One can eat boiled sweet potatoes and sugarcane. But whenever we get potatoes, very next day we wake up early (because you may get sunburn if you´ll dry chips at 12 pm.) and start papad/chips making program.Here is the recipe.

First wash the potatoes and peel them. After peeling, immerse it in water otherwise it will become black. 

Then boil around double quantity of water in a pot and add salt 2tsp oil (so that they will not stick together) and 1 pinch Alum/Fitkari (I did not added this but it makes Chips of snow white colour). 

Boil it for 5 min until it is half cooked.

Then use muslin cloth or thick plastic sheet and spread chips on it. Leave it in sun light for 1-2 days and then store them. Now whenever you want you can fry and put some seasoning of salt and pepper and enjoy it.

There is something more to mention about drying process actually neither I had muslin/thin cloth nor a roof.(in fact here weather is always cloudy so even I did not had proper sunlight). So I used a worth sharing trick!!!! I used my cloth drying stand and put sheets of butter paper on it and then I spreaded my chips on it. I kept it inside my room and my chips were ready in 2 days. If you can use room heater it´ll also help. 

I hope you will enjoy these chips. I like it especially because it does not soak much oil during frying. Guten Apetit!