Home Made Potato Chips

mommytaylor · 07-09-2009, 09:32:02 AM

DH loves potato chips, but they have so many preservatives - I switched to organic chips.. which are expensive. Now we make them at home - I can buy a bag of organic potatoes and we get so many more chips for the buck! It's easy!

Home Made Potato Chips

Ingredients:
-2 potatoes
-2 tbsp. cooking oils or butter
-Salt and additional seasonings

Preparation:
-Wash your potatoes thoroughly with cold water and dry them with a paper towel.
-Peel the potatoes using a potato peeler.
-Cut the potatoes into thin slices using either a sharp kitchen knife or a mandoline.
-Coat the potato slices with oil by hand or with a sauce brush.
-Sprinkle them with salt or other seasonings to taste.

Baked:
-Pre-heat your oven to around 400 degrees F.
-Place the potato chips on a baking tray (evenly spaced out).
-Bake the potato chips for 10 - 15 minutes or until they are golden brown and crispy.
-Flip them over halfway through the baking.
-Take them out of the oven, let them cool off, and serve.

Microwaved:
-Spread out your potato slices in a single layer on a large microwaveable plate.
-Cook on high for about 3 - 5 minutes (or until your chips are properly browned).
-Set them aside to cool and repeat the process for the rest of your potato slices.
-Sprinkle additional salt and seasonings to taste.

Yum!

Cynthiabutterfly · 07-09-2009, 11:23:22 AM

When I get to the bottom of a pkg of tortillas and they are cracking or too dry to eat, I cut them into triangles, fry them and salt them. Yummy!

mommytaylor · 07-09-2009, 11:33:21 AM

Originally Posted by Cynthiabutterfly

When I get to the bottom of a pkg of tortillas and they are cracking or too dry to eat, I cut them into triangles, fry them and salt them. Yummy!

ooOOoo that's an idea! I want to try that with corn tortillas!

jess323 · 07-09-2009, 11:34:40 AM

Originally Posted by Cynthiabutterfly

When I get to the bottom of a pkg of tortillas and they are cracking or too dry to eat, I cut them into triangles, fry them and salt them. Yummy!

I do that too! Or cut them into thin strips for tortilla soup!!! yum yum!

famousamos30 · 07-09-2009, 11:39:00 AM

I just made homemade tortilla chips for the first time last night - I can't believe how easy and how good they were! I'm stoked to try the potato chips!

Thanks!

lgoodwin · 08-04-2009, 12:09:11 AM

These sound so yummy!

Ggbwg · 08-04-2009, 09:42:40 AM

How long do these last after frying them ? I was just wondering how many you could make ahead of time. Would they get soggy, Moldy, etc. if were trying to make a bunch up and store ?

I've always wanted to make some but never do. We make homeade fries sometimes. I love them w/ the skin on and i have a deep fryer, i know not good but sooo yummy.

loaslaen · 08-04-2009, 10:00:02 AM

One day I was trying to make some fried potatoes and used a slicer and deep fried them. They were thinner than they were supposed to be and I ended up with potato chips.

I also wanted hard taco shells one time and didn't have any, but had soft tortillas. You can put some oil in a skillet and fold it over a spoon and cook one side and then flip and cook the other side then place it on a napkin to dry/cool and soak up the oil. It was MUCH tastier than the store bought hard taco shells. I cut the rest of the soft tortillas into triangles with a pizza cutter and cooked them in the oil and made tortilla chips.

latte · 08-04-2009, 10:07:35 AM

i make tortilla chips (i prefer them made out of flour tortillas to corn tortillas.....corn tortillas are only good for enchiladas) but i dont *fry* them

i cut them into strips or triangles (depends on my mood) take a pastry brush and brush on melted butter on both sides and sprinkle with fresh ground pepper, frehs ground sea salt, garlic powder, and onion powder

put in oven @ 375 bake f or 10 minutes, flip them over and bake for an additional 5 minutes

i dont like hard shell tacos...........but you can also make *taco bowls* by placing the tortillas into a pot of oil, and taking a metal soup ladle and pressing down into the middle of it (we use to do this at a restaraunt i worked at many years ago)