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home made tortilla chips

Homemade Tortilla Chips

Easy homemade tortilla chips made from flour tortillas
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 160 chips
Calories 50 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 pkg of flour tortillas
  • Olive oil spray
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil and pastry brush
  • 1 tsp curry powder or plain cumin
  • 1 tsp kosher salt

Instructions
 

  • DIRECTIONS:
  • Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Line a 12 X 17 heavy baking sheet or two cookie sheets with parchment paper 
  • Stack the tortillas evenly on top of each other. With a large serrated bread knife, cut the stack in half. Then cut each half into quarters and finally into eighths.
  • Spray the parchment paper lining the baking sheet or sheets with olive oil spray.
  • Place the tortilla triangles on the baking sheet in a single layer.
  • Spray the triangles with olive oil spray or paint each one with the olive oil using a pastry brush or your finger.
  • Mix the spice and salt in a small bowl and stir together. Place the spice mixture in a tea strainer over the bowl and then sprinkle the spice mixture over the oil sprayed triangles. Use as much or as little as you prefer.
  • Place the baking sheet(s) in the oven and bake for 7 minuter.
  • Rotate the baking sheet(s) and bake for 6 to 8 minutes more. Watch carefully so they don't get too brown or burn.
  • When golden brown, remove from the oven and place on cooling racks. You might have too many tortilla triangle and have to make more batches. If so, just repeat what you did with the first batch until you have used up all the cut up tortilla triangles.
  • Once the tortilla chips are cool, you can place them in a cookie tin or plastic bags where they will keep for a week or more.
  • Use these tortilla chips to dip into guacamole or salsa, or make them into nachos by sprinkling them with cheese and melting them in the microwave or the toaster oven. So so good, easy and inexpensive to make. 6 chips equals 50 calories.

Notes

Prep time and bake time don't include gathering the ingredients, mixing the spices and preparing the baking sheets which adds another 15 minutes.