Before you say anything — Yes, yes I did. I made pasta with potato chips – Sour Cream & Onion Kettle Chips to be exact! For my first post for the 5 Star Makeover I decided to go out on a limb for the Junk Food Challenge and do something that I wasn’t sure would even be possible…
Even as I was rolling out the dough I thought it still might not work…and then the same thought went through my head as I was tossing the pasta in boiling water. Luckily for me, it did! Tasting the pasta you could tell it was sour cream & onion flavored. You might think that would be gross but honestly with the corn crema and the balsamic tossed crab asparagus salad, they all came together like a dream. Thank God! Otherwise that would have been a whole lotta work for nothin’.
I have to be honest, I don’t really measure when I cook. I’ll try to give ingredients best I can, but remember cooking is all to taste. If you don’t try your dish while you’re making it, you’re making a mistake, taste taste taste! This corn crema was out of this world, you could absolutely serve it as a soup topped with a little sauteed corn kernels and crab meat. Seriously. Sogood.
Last night when I finally put all the components together, I gave my handsome man a big old plate full (pictured) to try out. I sh!t you not, the entire time he was eating, he was talking about how amazing it was. Then later on, while we’re laying in bed, around midnight he told me that he was so full but he couldn’t stop thinking about eating more of the pasta. Maybe I’m on to something here with the potato chip pasta…hmmm.
Potato Chip Pasta w/ Corn Crema & Balsamic Crab Asparagus Salad
by Lacy DeVeney
Ingredients
For the Pasta:
5 oz bag potato chips (I used sour cream & onion)
3 cups flour
4 eggs
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
For the Basil Olive Oil:
2 cups packed basil leaves
1 cup olive oil
For the Corn Crema:
1 tablespoon olive oil
5 asparagus stalks, sliced thin
1 scallion, whites only, sliced thin
2 carrots, minced
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 cobs of corn
1 cup heavy cream
1 15 oz can chicken broth
red pepper flakes
salt
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon cream cheese (I used tofu because I had it)
1/2 snow crab body, meat removed
For the Crab Asparagus Salad:
8-10 stalks asparagus, sliced on the diagonal
1 1/2 snow crab bodies, meat removed
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon olive oil, separated
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1/2 corn kernels, removed from 1 cob of corn
6 asparagus tops
Hot Chile Sesame Oil
Parmesan Cheese
To make the Potato Chip Pasta: Place the entire 5 oz bag of potato chips in a food processor. Process until chips are fine crumbs. Add 2-3 cups flour, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt & 2 tablespoons olive oil. Pulse until dough forms. Knead lightly on floured surface for about 4 minutes. Let sit under a bowl for 30 minutes before rolling. Roll out into desired shape – this is a delicate dough I could only get to a thickness of 4 before it started to tear.
To make the Basil Infused Olive Oil: Blend 2 cups packed basil leaves with 1 cup olive oil. Place in a saucepan and let simmer for at least 45 minutes. Strain into a bowl & let cool.
To make the Corn Crema & Crab Asparagus Salad: Slice about 5 asparagus stalks into small pieces, thinly slice 1 scallion – whites only, mince 2 carrots and place all in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Let cook for about 5 minutes then add 2 garlic cloves, minced. Let cook for another minute. Grate 2 corn cobs and add them to the sauce pan as well with 1 cup heavy cream and 1 15 oz can of chicken stock. Season with salt and about 1/4-1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes. Add sour cream and cream cheese, whisk to combine. Bring to a boil then turn heat to low and let cook for about 30 minutes, the sauce will thicken.
In the meantime cut the corn kernels off 1 cob of corn. Take half and add it to the saucepan. In a small bowl add about 8 asparagus stalks, sliced on a diagonal. Remove the meat from two snow crab bodies, reserve 1/3 of the meat and add the rest to the bowl with the asparagus. In a saute pan heat 2 tablespoons olive oil, add two cloves garlic minced and 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar, cook for about 2-3 minutes then pour over the bowl of asparagus & crab. Toss lightly. In the same saute pan add another teaspoon olive oil, add in the rest of the corn kernels and about 5 or 6 tops of the asparagus. Let them saute until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add 1-2 spoonfuls of the oil/garlic/corn to the bowl of crab & asparagus, toss light again. Remove remaining corn & asparagus from pan and let drain on paper towel.
When your sauce has thickened take an emulsion blender and blend all of the ingredients together in the pot until smooth. Return to low heat and add the reserved snow crab body meat, let sit over lowest heat possible to keep warm.
Boil a large pot of salted water, once it comes to a boil add your pasta and let cook for about 4 minutes. Remove cooked pasta from water, add pasta to a large pan with about half of the corn crema, toss to distribute sauce.
Plate a helping of pasta, top off with crab asparagus salad. Add a couple spoonfuls of the remaining corn crema around the pasta. Sprinkle with sauteed corn kernels and asparagus tops (ad more red pepper flakes if desired). Drizzle with basil infused oil and a couple drops of hot chile sesame oil. Shave a little Parmesan cheese on top if desired.
Did I mention it’s my birthday? Well, it is. I couldn’t think of a better challenge to celebrate my birthday with, I’m addicted to potato chips and there’s no dish I love more or love to make more than pasta, snow crab is my fav crustacean, plus it’s Spring which makes me happy & these veggies scream Spring to me! I’m 28 today – Happy Birthday to me!
I was hearing such good things about this dish and I see why… great use of your junk food to make pasta and the corn topping is a crazy idea with all those flavors… good job and fun reading.
Brilliant as usual Lacy! Your food photography is simply impeccable and your presentation burgeons with creativity and style. Love the ingredients too… Brava!
HAppy belated Birthday again!!! I am in LOVE with the potato chip pasta, such a creative idea, I am going to have to experiment with that soon, literally drooling right now.
OMG, I want this. This looks soooooo good. I’m literally drooling.
I’m hungry. Please feed me with this! My husband loves sour and creme chips. He would be very excited to know we could add these chips into a pasta and make a fabulous dish like this. This is dangerous. I need to avoid checking the recipe when he’s around haha! Great entry for the challenge!
Wow; you really came through on this challenge! So creative —and you used my own personal junk food (kettle cooked chips) in your dish, which scores extra points with me. Love everything about this one
Brilliant and amazing job with this dish! Pasta made from chips…wow!
Great entry
Hi Lacy – I have no doubt that your guy loved this dish! Looks spectacular!
Terrific addition to the Cooking Group Challenge… Glad you’re on the team, you sure put in a whole lot of effort with an impressive result. Brava!
LL
Happy Belated Birthday, Lacy! I just had my birthday too, isn’t is fun to celebrate with a creative post like this? This Kettle Chips pasta is most inspired. I love to make my own pasta and usually try out some crazy flavors like pink dragonfruit.. so it goes without saying that I adore this creation of yours immensely! In fact, I must make it for my man so that he won’t be able to stop talking about it
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Lacy!!! This looks amazing and I bet it was delicious!!! My fav so far from the makeover.
Oh, yes, pasta and chips. We both used chips, sour cream and onion and came up with completely different dishes. I love everything you did here. All the color, flavors, textures. A great makeover.
I cannot put into words how much I adore this dish! If it were a menu item at a restaurant, I’m sure it would become their signature dish. You truly outdid yourself with this masterpiece. I seriously can’t get over it. I told my fiance about it (he’s a chef) and he can’t wait to come home and see for himself. Wow, I’m in complete awe. Thanks for sharing! =]
Wow those are some of the best compliments I’ve gotten…ever! I was so surprised by how well this turned out and honestly I was really nervous about it until it got to the plate! I think I might have to tinker around with other chip flavors now haha start a potato chip pasta biz!
Never knew that potato chips can be used as an ingredient for salad until I saw this recipe of yours. Its definitely a good one looking at the outcome of what you have done, all the more with my fav of asparagus. Wonderfully yummy it looks and this alone can be my dinner meal.
What an awesome awesome entry my friend
You have certainly let your imagination go wild – junk food has never looked better – can’t wait to see more!
And Happy Birthday you modest modest person!!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Wow is this incredible and sooooo creative. I’m very impressed, although I’m not sure I could do this recipe justice if I tried it. Delish!
Wow! Does that ever look delicious!
Lacy, this is truly 5 Star, super creative to make a pasta out of chips! And corn crema and crab asparagus are so perfect here. Very nice! Happy birthday!!!
At first thought I kind of thought this was disgusting. I just couldn’t imagine how this could be…but then I read and read. Now I am so intrigued. Your photos look really delicious. I think I am going to try it out this weekend….and use the sour cream and onion variety.
What a fun dish! Love that you used sour cream and onion chips…and the asparagus is a beautiful addition!
Laz mentioned it was your birthday — hope you’re having a great day!
Thank you Faith!!
Happy birthday, Lacy! You know, as weird as this dish sounds, I can imagine that it tastes quite good. I’m especially liking the corn crema ingredients.
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!
This pasta looks so fab – interesting, different, and most importantly delicious!
Wow, I like the way you think. This is totally creative and inspires me to head off to the kitchen. Looks really scrumptuous. You definitely have something going on here, girl. Have a wonderful day.
Who woulda thought?!! This is such an awesome idea!!
Ummmm, wha?
That sound you hear is the sound my makes when my head spins.
Wowwwwww Lacy! Amazing! I hope I can recreate this!
So glad you are having so much fun with the challenge! You did create a winner here. I am now just wondering about the taste of that pasta. Not only did you create some new pasta, the other components you brought together to make this amazing meal look delicious. Buzz buzz! Tell that man of yours he is lucky to be enjoying all that wonderful food.
Oh, my! I thought you crumbled chips on top but NO – you put them in the dough. You’re right, it was definitely work because you’ve got so much going on here, but I love the sound of each and every layer/component. Great job!
… and Happy Birthday – I hope you’re being taken out tonight!
Thanks Joan!! This challenge was a lot of fun! Going to a great little restaurant in Brooklyn tonight – just watching the clock now until I can leave work.
Marvelous opening act. I love me some Kettle Chips. Sour cream & Onion, yup love those too. What an awesome idea to use the chips to make the pasta. I’d gladly dig into this. All the flavors just work.
I think you’ve found a home here with us. We are fortunate to have you.
Happy Birthday
Be Well