Chinese Salt and Pepper Chips
Crispy potato chips, peppers, onions, spring onions and chilli slices with homemade seasoning mix. Super quick and easy to make at home!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 300 g Chips (( Use any frozen or fresh chips )( about 8.8 oz ))
- ½ Onion (( Cut in slices ) Large sweet or white onion)
- ½ Bell Pepper (( Cut in slices ))
- 1 Red Chilli (( Cut in slices ) Optional)
- 2 Cloves Garlic (( Fine chopped ))
- ½ tsp Crushed chilli flakes (Optional)
- ½ tsp Salt (( Use fine salt ))
- ½ tsp White pepper powder (( Or black pepper powder ))
- ½ tsp Chinese five spices powder (( See detials in note ))
- ½ tsp Chicken Powder (Optional ( see details in note ))
Instructions
- 1
Add salt, white pepper powder, Chinese five spices powder and chicken powder in a small mixing bowl. Mix it well and set aside.
- 2
Prepare all the vegetables buy cut the onions, peppers, spring onion and chilli into thin slices. Finely chop the garlic and set aside.
- 3
To deep fry the chips, heat the vegetable oil to high heat about 350° F and fry the chips until crispy but make sure not to over-cook. ( Or you can fry it according to the package instructions. If you wish to bake or air fry it, spray a bit oil on the chips to achieve a crispy nice golden colour and texture. )
- 4
Remove from oil and transfer to paper towel and set aside.
- 5
In a large wok or pan, heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil over medium heat. Add onion slices and stir for few seconds and follow with the chopped garlic.
- 6
Stir for few seconds and add bell pepper, chilli slices and crush chilli flakes. Place the fried chips back in, sprinkle the seasoning powder mix. Toss all ingredients evenly for 1-2 minutes.
- 7
Add sliced spring onions and mix well.
- 8
Remove from heat and transfer to serving plate. Serve immediately.