Toasted Tortilla Chips

The tortillas cut in pieces can be toasted in the oven or fried in hot oil to make tortilla chips.

• Ready In: 23 mins
• Yields: 72 tortilla chips

Ingredients

• 12  corn tortillas or 12  use whole wheat tortillas
•  salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400ºF. Cut each tortilla into 6 pieces. Spread half of the tortilla chips on a baking sheet.
2. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
3. Remove from the oven, turn each tortilla chip over and return them to the oven for 3 more minutes.
4. Remove from the baking sheet and let them cool. Repeat with remaining tortilla chips.
5. NOTE: other method is to fry the tortilla pieces in hot oil in a fryer, drain and to absorb the excess of oil, place them on paper towels and sprinkle with salt when they are still hot.