Kalabasa Chips

by : Tiffany Margaux Teofilo


I've first tasted this kalabasa chips when i was in first year high school, when we were required to do it. At first we were hesitant to make them and eat them but then hey, what the heck, we decided to just get it over with.

We've heard of banana chips, camote chips and corn chips, but not much of kalabasa chips. maybe because 1)pumpkins are really hard which makes it really hard to cut them and 2) nobody really likes pumpkins that much except of course during Halloween- but then again there are plastic pumpkins sold at department stores already so why bother. At this point I'm calling my mom to ask her if pumpkin and squash are the same. she says it's sorta the same lang so let's use the term pumpkin.

So there we were, a group of not-so-much pumpkin lovers, making pumpkin chips.

The steps in making pumpkin chips:
1. peel the skin of the pumpkin (the hardest part- pumpkins have really stubborn skin)
2. slice the pumpkin into pieces and ground them (like crazy)
3. add in some sugar and mix them together (ok, so this part got a little confusing so we put in lots of sugar. big mistake
4. place the ground pumpkin and sugar in a flat surface then flatten (the most enjoyable part if you ask me)
5. deep fry until crispy
6. make sure it's cool.
7. voila! our very own kalabasa chips!

After all the cooking and waiting was finished, we had to taste our final product. and it was... and it was..... well, not that bad i suppose, the hardest thing was imagining it tasting so bad. it sort of tasted like banana chips actually, because of all the sugar. We added more pumpkin to our remaining uncooked chips an "fixed" the recipe. It was actually good. and healthy.


Note: Photo from Flickr

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