Moss chips

"Want a simple snack that packs a lot of flavor without packin' on the kilos? Then you might wanna grab a healthy handful of moss chips."

- Strono Tuggs

Moss chips were a type of simple and healthy wafer snack made from moss or similar green alternatives. The chips were flavorsome and could settle digestive systems upset by more decadent foodstuff. The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs was not a fan of edible moss until he tried some crispy moss chips made by a group of campers on the moon of Yavin 4.

At some point following the Battle of Takodana in 34 ABY, Tuggs included a recipe for moss chips in his cookbook, The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, and claimed that the chips were a staple on nearly every planet he had visited. The moss chip recipe in the book originated on the planet Dantooine and substituted leafy greens for moss.

Behind the scenes
Moss chips were first used in the new Star Wars canon as a recipe in the 2019 cookbook Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, which was written by Marc Sumerak and Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. They originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where they first appeared in the 2007 novel Republic Commando: True Colors which was written by Karen Traviss.

The out-of-universe recipe for the chips requires three or four large kale leaves, a tablespoon of honey, two tablespoons of olive oil, two teaspoons of white miso paste, half a teaspoon of ground ginger and a splash of boiling water. All of the ingredients bar the leaves should be mixed together and then the leaves torn into bite-size pieces and tossed in the mixture before baking.