How to Make Homemade Tortilla Chips

How to Make Homemade Tortilla Chips

from simplyrecipes.com
25 min
7 servings

We know that the best tortilla chips are made at home, so our step-by-step recipe walks you through how to bake, fry, microwave, or air fry the best tortilla chips you'll ever eat. Serve with your favorite salsa and guacamole.

Ingredients

  • About 3/4 to 1 cup regular olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, or vegetable oil (more or less depending on how many chips you are making)
  • Corn tortillas (each tortilla will make 6 chips)
  • Kosher salt (or other coarse salt), to taste

Directions

  1. 1

    Dry the tortillas: The tortilla chips will fry better if they are a bit dried out first. Either leave the whole tortillas out overnight, exposed to air so they are stale the next day, or dry them out a bit in the oven or microwave. To dry them in the oven: lay them out in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake at 350°F for 5 minutes or 200°F for 10 minutes. Or lay them out in a single layer (working in batches) on a paper towel in a microwave oven and microwave them for 20 to 60 seconds, depending on how strong your microwave is and how many tortillas you are drying. You don't want them crisp at this point, just as dry as they would be if you left them out overnight.

  2. 2

    Preheat the oven and cut the tortillas: Preheat the oven to 350°F. While the oven preheats, cut the tortillas into wedges

  3. 3

    Cut the tortillas into wedges: