Homemade Tortilla Chips

Why buy from the store when you can make these incredibly easy Homemade Tortilla Chips at home? With only 3 ingredients and 10 minutes a batch, these are an easy salty snack.

Prep Time5

Cook Time4

Total Time9

Course: Appetizer, Snacks

Cuisine: American, Mexican

Servings: chips (7.5 dozen)

Calories: 9kcal

Author: Tornadough Alli

Ingredients

15 yellow or white corn tortillas
Peanut oil for frying
¾ teaspoon fine sea salt

Instructions

n a deep fryer or in a deep sided heavy bottom skillet add at least 3 inches of oil and heat to 350 degrees F.
Take 5 of your tortillas and stack them on top of each other and cut them into 6ths. Repeat with the remaining tortillas.
Add about 10 chips at a time to the hot oil, making sure to keep them moving around using a heat proof spatula or steel skimmer making sure they brown evenly on both sides, and become crispy, this will take about 3-4 minutes.
Remove the chips from the hot oil and place them onto a paper-towel-lined plate to soak up any excess oil.
Then place them in a large bowl. Sprinkle the salt and toss the chips around so they all get coated in the salt.
Place the chips onto a wire rack over a sheet pan and repeat with the remaining tortillas.
Enjoy and serve with any of your favorite dips.

Notes

Our preference is yellow corn tortillas for this recipe, but you can make them with white corn as well.
These can be frozen, see above on how to do that.
Using a fine sea salt on these is the best as any other sized salt would be too large.
If you want to use other seasonings to change up the flavor you can.
Make sure that you fry these in batches.
These go great with various dips, see above for some ideas.
This makes a large batch of about 7.5 dozen or 90 chips. You can cut this in half if you'd like.
These can be made in a deep fryer or a heavy bottomed pan filled at least 3-inches high with oil.
We like to use peanut oil but you can also use, canola oil, corn oil, vegetable oil or avocado oil.

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