Are you bored with your regular chips that go with your Friday night pizza or kebab? Why not change things up with a healthier alternative, packed full of flavour and goodness. Vegetable chips coated with harissa and served with a cooling homemade feta and cucumber dip made using quark are super addictive and couldn’t be easier to make than regular oven chips.
Sweet potato chips have become a big hit in our house, especially with the little one. After a period of fussy eating, he’s finally come around to the idea that vegetables are not the enemy and opened up his taste buds to try some new things. These vegetable chips coated in harissa that are cunningly disguised as sweet potato chips and are a winner with him and the whole family. They’re a great way of getting a variety of vegetables into kids, for this recipe I’ve used parsnips, carrots, and courgettes. However, because of the vivid colour from the harissa paste, at first glance, you wouldn’t necessarily know that they weren’t sweet potato fries; unless you’re a sweet potato chip connoisseur of course!
Vegetable chips coated with harissa and served with a cooling homemade feta and cucumber dip made using quark.
- 4 large parsnips
- 4 large courgettes
- 4 large carrots
- 2 tbsp harissa paste
- 2 tbsp oil (of your choice)
- 250g Graham's Family Dairy Natural Quark
- 1/4 cucumber grated
- 50g feta cheese
- 2 tbsp fresh mint
- Salt and pepper to taste
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Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
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Prepare the vegetables by peeling and slicing them into chips (about 1cm thick). Place on a non-stick baking tray.
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Coat the chips in the harissa paste and oil and bake in the oven for 18-25 minutes, remembering to turn half way through the cooking process.
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While the chips are cooking, take a blender and add the quark, feta cheese and mint and blitz until smooth. Grate in the cucumber and season, stir until well combined.
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When the vegetable chips are done, all them to cool for a few minutes before serving with the dip.
To make the dip, I used quark made by Graham’s Family Dairy. Quark is a soft cheese that is naturally fat-free and high in protein, so great to incorporate into your meals if you’re looking to eat a little healthier. It’s incredibly versatile and can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes because it’s great at taking on different flavours.
I’m a massive fan of Graham’s Family Dairy Natural Quark, which I used in this recipe. When mixed with cucumber and feta it becomes a refreshing accompaniment to the spice from the harissa roasted vegetable chips. Definitely, a match made in heaven if there ever was one!
Not only is this dip great for dipping your vegetable chips into with your fish supper, I think it would be perfect for salads, meat dishes and BBQs when the weather starts to hot up (well, I hope it does!).
Have you tried making your own chips before?
*Recipe commissioned by Graham’s Family Dairy, but all opinions are my own.
These vegetable chips look fantastic as does the dip! I think subbing your usual chips for vegetable chips is such a great way to get more servings of vegetables into your diet and a heathier version than regular chips.
Thanks Sarah, they are a great way to get more veggies into your meals.
Oh, I’ve never heard of Quark before, sounds perfect! Thanks for the tip. I’m loving the holder you have used too, very nice.
Thank you! It’s naturally high in protein so really great.
Wow these look so good and perfect for me as I’m trying to be uber health conscious at the minute. Saving this to try later in the week. Thanks x
Oh, wonderful! Do let me know how you get on. 🙂
I hate most vegetables which is a pain when you want to be healthy. However feel i could trick myself that i was eating chips with this haha x
Absolutely! 🙂
This looks like a great alternative to sweet potato fries (which I love).
They do make a nice change. I love sweet potato fries too.
These vegetable chips sound interesting, I must try them on my children and see what they think.
Please let me know how they get on. 🙂
Oh, I am obsessed with harissa so these are right up my street! They look fab, and the dip looks yummy too.
Thanks Helen, the harissa add a lovely flavour.
These do look great. I will have to try them sometime x
Thank you!
Those Harissa chips are enough to turn my frown upside down. It has been a hard day and the thought of making these makes me feel a bit happier x
Awww.. that’s lovely to hear.
Oh yum, all of my favourite things rolled into one! I love making carrot fries, bit more exciting than a standard sweet potato fry. Plus, my boyfriend loves carrots and there’s only so much you can do with them sometimes….!
Perfect summer snack – just hurry up weather!
Lucy xx – She’s So Lucy // Health, Beauty and Lifestyle
Yay! These would be a perfect summer snack for picnics etc. I can’t wait for the warmer weather.
I’m wondering if I could trick my daughter with these? She is a vegetable avoider but loves sweet potato fries. The dip sounds amazing!
Definitely worth a try, Claire. 🙂
I love sweet potato chips but rarely ever get them crispy enough. I’ve just bought a halo fryer so I might have to try them in there x
They would be great cooked in there.
The colours of this are just so appealing! Great idea for a healthy and impressive nibble – would be fab at Dinner Parties!
YES! Great healthy party food.
Yes! A great healthy party nibble.
oh my goodness this all looks delicious, I am very tempted to make these myself. I haven’t made my own chips before
Give them a try, they’re so easy. 🙂
i make vegetable chips a lot and they’re so addictive. i love the sound of this dip! will have to try it out next
Thanks Nicol.
These look fab! I love making my own chip so I’ll have to give these a go x
I love making my own too, especially when it’s so easy.
These sound absolutely lovely and with the addition of the dip you have won me over x
Aww, thanks Rachel!
Such a colourful dish Jemma! This would make great running fuel, thanks for sharing x
Thanks Val! I bet they would too.
These sound delicious! Sweet potato fries are poplilaeninbmy house so I might sneakily try this. I’m not keen on quark, would natural yoghurt or Philadelphia work in the dip?
Natural yoghurt would also work fine. 🙂
We have sweet potato chips a lot,but I have never thought of putting them in a flavoured paste before, such a simple and genius idea!! Thank you x
It really changes the vegetables up and so easy too.
Love the look of these and I actually have harissa in the cupboard – win!! Bet my kids would love them.
Kids seem to love them, so a great way of getting more veggies into their meals.
I love the idea of the harissa coating, it must have made the chips super delicious.
It’s such a simple way to inject some flavour.
This looks gorgeous – even the picture is making my mouth water! x
Thanks Leah!
I did make it. It is so good, even I know that what you made is so much better than mine. It is fantastic for a cold day as today. Thank you for your lovely food ^^
Oh fab! So happy that you enjoyed it.
These chips look incredible, I’ve been trying to substitute normal chips for veggie chips lately so will give these a go!
This is totally my kind of snack. I am a little bit harissa obsessed at the moment.
Oh wow, these look delightful! May have to give them a go this weekend 🙂
I so need to try this out! Looks absolutely delicious.