DIY Barbecue Potato Chips takes ordinary plain potato chips and coats them with a made from scratch barbecue seasoning spice blend.
DIY Barbecue Potato Chips
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
DIY Barbecue Potato Chips is my recipe of the day for the BBQ Week blogging event. I will be posting several recipes this week, but you can follow all week long with all the bloggers by hunting #BBQWeek on social media.
Make bbq seasoning for homemade potato chips
Yes, the seasoning is what this recipe is all about. It is what makes (or breaks) a bbq chip. At least in my opinion. And everyone has one of those when it comes to this favorite style of chip.
Flavor Premade Potato Chips
This recipe is a really easy one. It all starts with your favorite bag of chips. In my case, I just grabbed a bag of plain Lays. Synonymous with “potato chips”, they don’t even mark on the bag what they are anymore.
I think that’s hilarious!
You could use ruffled dipping chips if you like. Just be careful that the seasoning doesn’t clump in the ridges. It needs to be evenly spread over the chips for best flavor.
Homemade BBQ Potato Chip Seasoning
But the important part of this recipe is the spice mix. It is made from scratch to my own specifications from spices in your own cabinet.
I am just not fond of cloyingly sweet or overly smoky bbq chips. It seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to find chips that aren’t.
And well, I guess if you like yours sweet, just up the sugar. You can adjust the spice level to your tastes too, by upping the hot pepper. Keep in mind that it will have a bit of a milder taste once it is on the chip. If you change yur mind, you can always sprinkle with some more cayenne, but you can’t get it off.
The same with the salt- and keep in mind your chips are already salted unless you are making them from scratch. (I have a recipe for that below).
My favorite style of chips are Old Vienna Red Hot Riplets (not always called that over the years) and Utz chips (which I have been fond of in recent years) but all can be hard to find. These tend to be less sweet and more spicy with a bit of a tang.
But I do like thin chips, which is the way the Old Vienna chips used to be long ago. And some of the Utz chips came like that.
But this is quite easy to stir up and toss on your warm chips (warming helps liquify fats on the chips to hold the seasoning better, but they don’t really need baking- just heating).
#BBQWeek Recipes
Appetizers and Drinks
- Cherimoya Margarita by Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Side Dishes
- BBQ Macaroni Salad by Making Miracles
- Cool Beans Salad by Jolene’s Recipe Journal
- Creamy Pea Salad with Bacon by House of Nash Eats
- DIY BBQ Potato Chips by Palatable Pastime
- Homemade Barbecue Sauce Recipe by SueBee Homemaker
- Honeydew Cucumber Salad by Kate’s Recipe Box
- Sweet Macaroni Salad by The Spiffy Cookie
- Warm New Potato and Pea Salad by A Day in the Life on the Farm
Main Dishes
- Cuban Marinated Chicken Tacos by A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Grilled Citrus-Marinated Pork Chops by Sweet Beginnings
- Grilled Flounder Tacos with Peach Jalapeno Salsa by Our Good Life
- Sausage and Peppers by Devour Dinner
- Teriyaki Chicken Skewers by Cheese Curd In Paradise
- The Best Grilled BBQ Pork Ribs by Daily Dish Recipes
Desserts
- Elvis Presley Cake by Family Around the Table
- No-Bake Kumquat Creamsicle Pie by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
Be sure to follow our Pinterest board for more summer BBQ ideas. Thank you to Christie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures and Ellen from Family Around the Table for hosting the event.
DIY Barbecue Potato Chips
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DIY Barbecue Potato Chips
DIY Barbecue Potato Chips
Ingredients
- 16 ounce bag plain potato chips
BBQ Spice Mix:
- 2 tablespoons smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon dehydrated tomato powder
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper or more, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300F.
- Stir together the spice mix and set aside.
- Place potato chips on a baking sheet.
- Bake chips five minutes or so just to get warm.
- Sprinkle with bbq seasoning, tossing gently in a plastic bag if needed, to evenly coat the chips.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
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Yumm! Love that you can actually “fix” the BBQ flavoring to taste this way; it’s hard to find BBQ chips that are Goldi-Locks “Just Right”!
I am not a sweets person, but I am all about the chips.
Thanks for sharing.