Seasoned Tortilla Strips

Junebug's Note:

These are quick to make and are good to snack on, add to salads or to top a soup. The original recipe is from epicurious. You can use less oil than is shown and still have great results. Yield shown in recipe is a guesstimate.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 7 cups

• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• ¼-½ teaspoon cayenne pepper or ¼-½ teaspoon ground red pepper
• 12 6-inch corn tortillas
• salt
• Tabasco sauce , to taste (if you like them spicy!)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Stir oil and all spices together.
3. Brush one side of all the tortillas with oil/spice mixture.
4. Make 3 stacks of 4 tortillas and cut the tortillas into 1/4-1/2" strips.
5. Put strips in a single layer on a couple of cookie sheets sprayed with Pam.
6. Bake until golden and crisp, about 10-15 minutes.
7. (If pans are on different oven racks switch their positions about halfway through baking.).
8. Remove from oven and sprinkle with salt.
9. Cool completely in pans.

Reviews

[Wendy13]

We love these. I could just sit and eat them like chips but I try to save them for the tortilla soup!

[princessbride029]

Delicious! I cut the recipe down to 1/4 and used 2 big flour burrito sized tortillas. Cut into super thin strips and served over a southwestern grilled chicken salad. YUM! I'll be snacking on these tomorrow! Thanks!

[Sweet Baboo]

Very good. I cut the tortillas into wedges after seasoning and baked them as tortilla chips.