How To Make Toasted Coconut Chips with Sea Salt and Caramel

on

One of my favourite snack meals proper now's toasted coconut chips with caramel and sea salt.  You would possibly have viewed this product at Trader Joe’s offered beneath the identify roasted coconut chips otherwise you will have encountered a model made by way of means of Dang offered at unique grocery stores.  Toasted coconut chips are sweet, salty, under no circumstances greasy, quite healthy, insanely delicious, and absolutely addictive.  After yet one other bag of toasted coconut chips ended up in my purchasing cart the unique day, I began to to suppose about how you can make them myself.



Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons water
  • 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes


 Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325 F.
  • Stir the sugar, water, and salt collectively till they combine to make a thick liquid.
  • Pour the combination over the coconut flakes and stir to coat the flakes.
  • Spread the flakes out on a baking sheet included with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
  • Check at the flakes regularly, beginning at five minutes, till they're frivolously toasted. They can quick pass from toasted to burnt, so be certain to hold your eye on them.
  • You can devour them immediately, but they could be additional crispy once they cool.


On Amazon proper now, it charges $2.26 an oz for the Trader Joe’s chips (they are much less within the store), $1.42 an oz for Dang chips, and $0.26 per ounce for unsweetened flaked coconut.  Just how tough may possibly it's to toast and sweeten coconut myself?



If you observe me on Instagram, you saw a picture yesterday of 4 experiment batches that I wasn’t joyful with.  I experimented with toasting coconut at the stovetop and within the oven, utilizing unique varieties of sugars, and at which level so as to feature the sugar.  In the end, I constructed a recipe for toasted coconut with caramel and sea salt that tastes simply like Dang.  Bonus:  The entire factor is carried out in beneath 10 minutes!  Get in a position to get snacking!



Notes
Dang coconut chips are made with coconut sugar. If you choose, you may update the granulated sugar within the this recipe with coconut sugar. I tried this technique and discovered that effects tasted so same to the granulated sugar that it would now not be price spending the additional funds on coconut sugar except you deliberate to make use of it for anything else as well.
Yield: 1 1/3 cups

Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Toasted Coconut Chips with Sea Salt and Caramel
Amount Per Serving
Calories 140Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Fat 12g18%
Saturated Fat 10g50%
Sodium 55mg2%
Potassium 102mg3%
Carbohydrates 8g3%
Fiber 3g12%
Sugar 5g6%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin C 0.2mg0%
Calcium 5mg1%
Iron 0.6mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are founded mostly on a 2000 calorie diet.