Spicy Tortilla Chips

Preparation info
  • Makes

    48

    Chips
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Lighter, Quicker, Better: Cooking for the Way We Eat Today

By Richard Sax and Marie Simmons

Published 2000

  • About

While there are several lowfat tortilla chips now on the market, they’ll never be as tasty as the ones you can make yourself in minutes. We have to laugh at the tortilla and potato chips that conspicuously announce that they have no cholesterol. What they don’t say is that those cholesterol-free chips are fried in vegetable oil and have plenty of fat.

Fresh flour and corn tortillas are available in the dairy sections of most supermarkets. The thinner the tortilla, the better the chi