Homemade tortilla chips

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Tortilla chips are made by shallow frying soft corn tortillas - these instructions just cover the frying part so can hardly be considered a recipe!

If you want to start from scratch, use this recipe to make the soft corn tortillas yourself. It's the masa harina that gives them that unique flavour.

Ingredients

• ½ cup of vegetable oil
• 1 pack of soft corn tortillas (8 to 10 tortillas)
• Fine salt

Method

1. Cut the each corn tortilla into 6 triangles
2. Heat the oil in a large heavy based frying pan over a medium heat.
3. Add the triangles in small batches and fry for about a minute or until they just start to brown. You need to be quick as they can burn easily.
4. Lift the cooked chips out of the pan and let the oil drain and then stack on paper towels to remove excess oil.
5. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
6. Allow to cool and crisp-up a little before serving.

Serving suggestions

Try one of our salsa recipes or this Tex-Mex bean dip for tacos.

Chef's notes

For health reasons, I have used olive oil.

You could possibly fry the whole tortilla first and then cut into triangles as they remain soft for a ref minutes after frying. I will try that next time I make these.

See also

• Tortillas: - Encyclopeadic page describing all variants of tortillas
• South American tortilla recipes - :
  • Corn tortilla recipe - make them from scratch with masa harina
  • Corn tortillas - a Thermomix recipe
  • Wheat flour tortilla recipe
  • Gorditas - Thick Mexican tortillas
  • Quick tortillas - a recipe idea for using left over tortillas
  • Burrito (or taco de harina) explained
  • Enchiladas - a recipe and an expanation
  • Homemade tortilla chips - Make superb tortilla chips from soft corn tortillas - better than anything you could buy!
  • Cheese nachos - A cheese nacho recipe
  • Frito pie - If you like Tex-Mex, you'll love this
  • Easy frito pie - Make Frito pie-on the hoof!
  • Sincronizada recipe - A Mexican speciality that can alos be found all over South America
  • Quesadillas - A selection of quesadilla recipes
  • Dobladas - Stuffed tortillas from Guatemala
  • Enfrijoladas recipe - tortillas stuffed with re-fried beans and spices
  • Chilaquiles - a fabulous recipe from two Mexican visitors
  • Tostadas de guacamole y crema - A famous Diana Kennedy recipe
  • Cheese pupusas - a stuffed tortilla from El Salvador
  • Pupusa de Chicharron - similar to pupusas, again from El Salvador
  • Spicy lamb tortillas - A recipe idea taken from crispy duck pancakes
  • Duck fajitas - and a similar version, with crispy duck
• Spanish tortilla recipes:
  • Capricorn, pea and mint tortilla - A Spanish-style tortilla with goats' cheese
  • Potato and goats' cheese tortilla - Another Spanish-type with goats' cheese
  • Tortilla Española - A Spanish tortilla
  • Tortilla capuchina - another Spanish tortilla
  • Tortilla 'batatas harras' - A spicy Spanish tortilla
  • Squash, halloumi and chilli omelette - Spicy, with squash & Greek cheese
  • Omelettes - Many omelette recipes
• Misc. tortilla recipes:
  • Potatoes as a garnish or for tortillas (TM) - A Thermomix recipe
• Ingredients:
  • Taco shells
  • Tortilla chips - Snacks/crisps.
• Tools:
  • Tortilla press - The device and also a great tip for making them without a press!