Reduced-Fat French Onion Dip w Homemade Potato Chips

Yes! I am a potato chip eater. I love chips. Sweets? Yeah, they are good....but chips...oh man. I love chips.

I signed up to be a recipe tester with Cook's Country and have been eagerly awaiting my first test. I finally received it and it is for a Reduced-Fat French Onion Dip. Now I can't give away their recipe but I can give you a few sneaky tidbits about it.

One is that part of the recipe is made with cottage cheese which is blended with a bit of boiling water to smooth out any lumps. I myself am against cottage cheese for it just LOOKS weird. But I did try the recipe exactly and it tasted great!

I hadn't used my blender in forever so it was fun to get that massive powerhouse of a kitchen appliance out again. Whip that cottage cheese with those carmelized onions...oh man. This was low fat??? Tasted really good. Hmmm... I have plans for this method in other things :>)

Next, this dip recipe was just that...dip. It didn't even offer any suggestions for serving veggies or potato chips. My task? To find a good potato chip recipe that wasn't ridiculously fattening, thereby trashing all low-fat efforts on the dip.

I found a great one. It was from Cook's Illustrated which stated was Herb Potato Chips, but I 86-ed the herbs and went with a nice coarse kosher salt. The method is pretty cool.

Thinly slice 1 potato

Lay slices onto a well oiled cookie sheet

Sprinkle with salt

Grease the OUTSIDE bottom of another cookie sheet and leave the potato slices between the two sheets. Bake at 375 for about 20-25 minutes.

OMG. Stop me now. They were completely great! I promise to add some variations on this recipe because they have to be WAAAAY Less fat that store bought potato chips. I doubt I used 1 1/2 TB of vegetable oil. They were crisp, had some golden brown spots on them and held up well to the dip.

Ask me how work was today? I spent the day in and out working on warranty data and pondering every chip flavor known to man. I love recipe day dreaming.