Both John and I prefer flour tortillas to the corn variety when making enchiladas, quesadillas, or tacos. Nevertheless, I bought a package of corn tortillas for making chicken tortilla soup the other day… and was left with 3/4 of a package threatening to go bad in the fridge.
What to do, what to do…
Baked tortilla chips popped into my mind, and the idea came to fruition in 15 minutes flat.
Simply coat as many tortillas as you’d like with cooking spray, stack ‘em up, and cut ‘em into wedges.
Place them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with Kosher salt…
and bake until lightly browned and incredibly crisp.
Couldn’t be easier, right?!
I want you to think about the last time you crunched into a warm freshly made tortilla chip.
If you never have, then it is high time you do, my friend.
If, on the other hand, you have had the privilege of tasting freshly made tortilla chips, I want you to imagine how fantastic they would be fresh out of your oven!
With no grease to speak of, these baked chips are clearly healthier than the fried chips served in restaurants. The homemade version also allows you to play around with whatever spices strike your fancy.
Cinnamon-sugar, chile-lime, and cumin-cayenne come to mind.
What flavor would you make?
Basic Homemade Baked Tortilla Chips
Ingredients:
- corn tortillas
- canola oil cooking spray
- Kosher salt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Lightly coat both sides of each corn tortilla with cooking spray.
- Stack the tortillas on top of one another, and cut the pile in half. Cut each half in half again; then cut each quarter in half. Every tortilla will yield 8 triangles.
- Place tortilla triangles on baking sheets in one layer. Sprinkle with salt.
- Bake tortillas until crisp, lightly browned, and slightly curled, about 12 minutes. Watch closely so they don’t burn.
- Toss the warm tortilla chips with additional salt to taste, if desired.
This looks freaking GREAT could you like make homemade corn tortilla then put it in the like oven. Please answer im making this for a party.
Read up on canola oil…it’s very unhealthy….try with coconut oil instead for a much healthier oil.
This is a thank you note to Pam, for pointing out that canola oil is unhealthy.
I now have a fatty liver & have been told to stop eating everything with Vegetable & Canola Oils in it, & to reduce my wheat intake to once a week.
That means no fried foods, no margarine & no store bought bread.
It’s a great way to loose weight!
Fatty liver left untreated goes on to become cirrhosis of the liver, which is fatty liver with scaring.
This can also be caused by alcohol, but as I don’t drink mine is diet related.
Thanks for the tortilla chips recipe. We just made it and had it. Yummy crunchy no guilt snack.
For the topic of Canola oil made from rapeseed – Its very unhealthy, harmful- I realised that 9 years ago. In my cooking the types of oil used are- Sunflower oil, sesame oil, peanut oil, coconut oil and mostly and regularly- olive oil.
Industries make these or anything genetically modified to make profit and market it that way too. But since people have stopped caring for their health and believing in industries , Those(bad ones) industries are growing.
Just made these today. YUMMY! Much better than store bought! My next attempt will be at homemade flour tortillas.
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OMG they are so good instead of using corn tortillas I used whole wheat an they were tasty to me.