Tortilla Chips

snack food · corn · Mexican cuisine · fried

Made from corn. Tortilla chips start with corn tortillas that are made using nixtamalized corn, which is corn that has been soaked in a special liquid to make it more nutritious and flavorful.

Cut and cooked. Fresh corn tortillas are sliced into triangles and then either fried in oil or baked until they become golden and crunchy.

From Mexico originally. While tortilla chips were first mass-produced in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, similar snacks like totopos and tostadas were enjoyed in Mexico long before that.

Simple ingredients. All you need to make tortilla chips is nixtamalized corn, vegetable oil, salt, and water, making them a pretty straightforward snack to create.