2 Ingredients Baked Parmesan Crisps

These baked Parmesan crisps are the easiest low-carb snack you’ll ever make. All you need is one main ingredient (pepper is optional), 5 minutes of prep, and 5 minutes in the oven. Add it to Caesar salad as homemade croutons, soups, or as a party appetizer to your cheese board.

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• Why you’ll love cheese crisps
• Ingredients
• Step-by-step instructions
• Best cheese for cheese crisps
• Useful tips
• Seasoning options
• Ways to use cheese crisps
• Recipe FAQs
• Other crispy snacks
• 📋Baked Parmesan Crisps

Why you’ll love cheese crisps

1. Ditch potato chips. A new crunchy, salty snack is here! And it’s cheesy too. Gorgeous lattice pattern little disks are crunchy, salty, and cheesy. It’s made generally with just one main ingredient – Parmesan cheese!
2. Easy to customize! Simple seasoning like ground pepper, garlic powder, ground cumin, cayenne pepper, red chili flakes, paprika, turmeric powder, Italian herbs, Everything seasoning works. Jo’s tip: Since cheese crisps has enough sodium, choose seasoning that won’t make it too salty, and don’t add salt.
3. If you are a fan of Whisps cheese crisps, you can make it at home, easily and fast!
4. Homemade crisps are cheaper compared to those sold at such high prices in the market!
5. Choose the best quality Parmesan cheese block. Do not use pre-grated cheese that is filled with fillers and additives.
6. These Parmesan crisps are great paired with wine, or dipped in marinara sauce or salsa.

Ingredients

The recipe needs just one ingredient – a Parmesan cheese block.

Ingredients notes

Parmesan – always use good quality Parmesan cheese block and grate it yourself. I experimented with pre-grated cheese and they did not turn bubbly and cohere when baked. It’ll end up powdery.

Pepper (optional) – You can enhance flavor with additional ingredients like ground pepper, Everything seasoning, ground cumin, turmeric, paprika, cayenne pepper, or curry powder.

Step-by-step instructions

Step 1: Use the best quality Parmesan cheese block.

Step 2: Grate it using a fine grater hole. It helps cohere and bind together when bubbling in the oven.

Step 3: Line up a baking tray with parchment paper. Add heaping tablespoon of grated Parmesan cheese spreading it in a thin layer. Make sure you leave enough space between the piles.

Step 4: optional – sprinkle crushed pepper (or other seasoning) on top.

Step 5: Bake in preheated oven at 375F for 5 to 7 minutes until the edges begin to brown. Watch very closely, as they can burn fast if left for a few extra seconds in the oven. The size of the crisps will decide how long they need to be baked.

Step 6: Once done, remove the tray from the oven. Give it a few seconds so the cheese hardens, remove the crisps from the oven using a thin spatula. Serve immediately with sauce.

Best cheese for cheese crisps

Any hard cheese would work, cheese with less moisture so it gets crispier when baked. Parmesan or Romano works best!

Semi-hard cheese like cheddar would work too, remember if you use cheddar alone, cheese crisps won’t turn crispier. You’ll get slightly soft and pliable crisps, but still delicious with wonderful cheddar flavor. Use a mix of Parmesan and cheddar to get flavors of both cheese and a perfect crispy texture.

If you want to experiment with different cheese, try with a little cheese at a time to see how it turns out, and if you like it go ahead with a bigger batch.

Useful tips

1. Always use the best quality Parmesan cheese blocks. Pre-grated cheese may have fillers and additives which are not great for making crisps.
2. Use the small grater hole on the grater when you grate Parmesan cheese. Fine grated cheese works best when melted giving a beautiful lattice pattern when cheese melts.
3. Line the baking tray with a silicon mat or parchment paper to prevent crisps from sticking. No need to spray parchment paper with oil, as cheese once melts will be greasy enough.
4. Spread grated cheese into a thin layer so it crisps up well.
5. If adding other seasoning like spice powder mix it with grated cheese before spreading it on the tray.
6. Keep the size of the crisps small and don’t layer the cheese too thick. It won’t turn crispy.

Seasoning options

Parmesan crisps can be made plain with no seasoning. Parmesan cheese is salty enough, nothing else is really needed. Adding seasoning makes it more tastier. Try it with a hint of pepper cracked on it before baking.

• Or sprinkle garlic powder.
• Cayenne pepper or paprika.
• Ground cumin is great too.
• Sprinkle red chili flakes
• Sprinkle dried herbs or Italian seasoning.
• Everything seasoning.

Ways to use cheese crisps

These crisps can be served in so many ways.

1. Serve it plain just like chips with marinara sauce as dip.
2. Serve it as salad toppings.
3. Use it in soups. These crisps are great replacements for croutons.
4. Use it in hamburger.
5. or as a party appetizer to your cheese board.

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