Spiced Tortilla Chips

[fitfool]

    Years ago, I was grocery shopping with one of my housemates, Jacques.
    "Oh I love these!" I said, grabbing some pita chips.
    "Oh yeah? You can make those pretty easily at home," he said. "Same for tortilla chips." As far as my real life friends go, the cooks have tended to be male and I had already enjoyed a few meals by him. At that time, I was a very novice cook who regarded cooking as a chore. So now, years later, when I spotted this recipe for Spiced Tortilla Chips in Cooking Light, I finally tried it out and he's right -- it's really easy to make at home.

Spiced Tortilla Chips

10 (6-inch) flour tortillas
cooking spray
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt

1. Preheat oven to 450F
   
2. To prepare chips, lightly coat tortillas with cooking spray. Combine the chili powder, cumin, and 1/4 tsp salt in a small bowl; sprinkle evenly over tortillas.
   
3. Cut each tortilla into 4 wedges. (I used a pizza cutter)
   
4. Arrange wedges in a single layer on a baking sheet.
   
   
   
   
5. Bake at 450F for 7 minutes or until crisp and golden. (keep an eye on things. I burned my first batch. I only needed about 5 minutes in my oven.)
   
6. Serve with some salsa.
   

This was in the March 2006 issue of Cooking Light.
Thread in vegrecipes

Comments

[sebab.livejournal.com]

Yumm! Have you tried this with corn tortillas? J loves corn chips, thus it would be fun to feed his addiction in a slightly healthier way :)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I would've but I didn't have any corn tortillas in the house. Next time though... :)

[chreebomb.livejournal.com]

definitely better with corn. although you can do the same with flour, but with cinnamon and sugar. mmmmmmm.

also, try chile y limon seasoning on your chips. que rica! 8-)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

ooh...Thansk for these ideas. Cinnamon and sugar sounds tasty. For the chile y limon, would that be done by sprinkling on some lemon juice with the chili powder?

[razz.livejournal.com]

Oh, those look good ... you know, you could make your own flour tortillas at home! ;D I used to make them for my old roommate, and they're really good fresh!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Making my own tortillas always seemed so intimidating. How hard was it to do? Do you need any special pans?

[razz.livejournal.com]

I just used a skillet/frying pan. There are only a few ingredients, sometimes only flour and milk or water depending on the recipe you use, and such simple things should help you feel less intimidated. =) Here's a nice Web page that might help you: http://www.texascooking.com/features/sept98flourtortillas.htm

[titaniumdiva.livejournal.com]

At my house, we have a similar recipe that we call "Beth Chips" after my cousin who taught me how to make them. :-)

Will try your variant, too!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

How did Beth season her chips?

[titaniumdiva.livejournal.com]

Oh, just with ordinary old garlic salt or onion salt. I'm sure yours will be more fun.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Garlic salt sounds appealing to me.

[shnookie24.livejournal.com]

That sounds good. I plan to make some this weekend. YUMMY I Love cumin

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Did you like these? :)

[shnookie24.livejournal.com]

Ya know I never made them. It was way too hot here this weekend to use our oven. I also made my black beans that I make and wow did I use a lot of cumin and cayenne. I love hot things.

I will try it one day when I get a chance, but when the weather is 109 we try not to use our ovens.

Thanks for checking.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

yeah. I want to make more but am reluctant to turn on the oven too :-P

[mithoviel.livejournal.com]

Nice...I gotta try these!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Let me know what you think of them when you do :)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Cool. Hope you like it once you make it.

[versimilitant.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, these would taste great crumbled over a salad! I love your recipes!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

hey that's a neat idea for using these. Thanks!

[bd1.livejournal.com]

That looks good (as do all the dishes/food you make). What do you use to shoot the pics?

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I tend to only post the pictures that I really like. For example, there's a baked acorn squash recipe languishing in draft mode since I didn't like how the photos came out :-P I'm using a Canon Powershot A80 and idly considering getting a better camera but I probably won't since this one suits my needs fine for now. Still...those digital SLRs make me drool sometimes :)

[bd1.livejournal.com]

We were just about to buy a digital SLR, hence my question. Then we bought a bunch of 2005 Bordeaux futures so the SLR will have to wait.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

what are futures when talking about wine? Is it similar to stocks?

[bd1.livejournal.com]

You buy the wine years before it is delivered. We bought several cases of 2005 Bordeaux but it is still aging in casks and won't be bottled and delivered until 2007 or 2008. But 2005 shows promise to be one of the great vintages of the past several decades.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

How can they tell that many years ahead of time that it'll be a good vintage? Aren't they just guessing?

[bd1.livejournal.com]

You can tell by the weather, how the grapes look, how they taste, the yield, barrel tastings, etc. But yes, there's still a lot that can change between now and then, so there's a little risk.

It didn't seem that risky this year. The conditions were so perfect that even Petite Chateaus were turning out blockbuster Bordeauxs.

The problem is that the futures have been bid up so rapidly on the big houses that they are outrageously expensive, if you can even find them. Thus, we've been concentrating on high quality lesser known houses.

[cheshirelovecat.livejournal.com]

   Eh... hi!  I found your profile through a cooking community (I was just there and yet have totally blanked on the name) a while ago and have found myself coming back to check out your recipes and what not for quite some time.  To seem less online-stalker esque I finally decided to friend you.  Feel free to either friend back or ignore me; just wanted to give you a heads up.  ^_^

   And while I'm here... those tortilla chips look divine!  ::Homer Simpson drool::

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the add. Added you back.

[mysticchyna.livejournal.com]

looks good, too bad my teeth are too messed up to eat crunchy stuff.