Easy Tortilla Chips (Fried or Baked)

For the best homemade tortilla chips, fry them. The recipe includes details for fried and baked tortilla chips. The baked chips are excellent, but they will not be as light or crispy as the traditionally fried chips. The recipe calls for 10 corn tortillas, but you can increase or decrease this amount based on how many chips you would like to make. For the best flavor, look for tortillas made using nixtamalized corn. Nixtamal is dried corn cooked and soaked in water with calcium hydroxide (slaked lime or cal). Not all store-bought tortillas use this method, which is why the flavor of corn tortillas can vary. Look for “nixtamal” or “nixtamalized” on the package. You can also look at the list of ingredients (it should be short and have the words “lime” or “cal.”)