How To Make Tortilla Chips

Hi, there. Today, I'm going to show you how to make homemade tortilla chips. But first, I'm going to need to show you how to make the dough.

I've got here four hundred grams of flour here, and that goes into a bowl, it helps if it's sifted. Four tablespoons of baking powder, that just goes in. Sorry, that was three hundred grams of flour, that's why I was checking.

I'm going to add one and a half teaspoons of salt and I'm just going to give that a good old mix. And now, I've got some shortening, you can use vegetable fat or lard, you know, whatever works out for you. I'm going with lard here and I'm just breaking it up into little pieces.

Now, you can do this in a food processor or, you know, better still, a mixer with a dough hook. But just for the purpose of this demonstration, because not everyone watching this will have power tools, I'm just going to do it, and you want to put some air into it and just rub it together with your fingers. And I'm going to do this for the next two or three minutes until I get the consistency of bread crumbs, so when you come back, that's where I'll be and then we'll add the water to finish off the dough.

What I'm going to do is start adding some water and I'm not going to add all of it. I've got about three hundred milliliters, it does go quite mucky, and what's going to happen is it will come together and form a lovely dough. Then what we'll do is rest that dough.

Right, that's nice, I mean, that's a really lovely consistency, it's nice and squashy, and that will go in here and we're just going to rest it for twenty minutes before cooking it off on a cast iron frying pan. Right, well, that's been left for about twenty minutes. Okay, I'm just going to count.

I'm only going to do one, and we'll cook one of these off later. But I'm just going to take, cut it off into - probably sixteenths will do. I may double up on that.

In fact, I will double up on that. That will be perfect. A little bit of flour both, so that's just to stop it from sticking.

I'm just going to flour my pin and I'm just going to roll this out. Now, as you can see, I've just got a pan on the go and that's furiously getting up to a very high temperature. And, I'm just going to roll this into as near as diameter, a circular.

Now, I'm not great at doing circles, but I'm going to show you a little trick in a moment. We're just going to put this around the plate so that I've got a perfect round tortilla even if it is a little bit raw and I'm going to dust it with a little bit of flour, just to give me a bit more purchase. Now, that pan is really hot.

I find a cast iron skillet is perfect for this. Now, I grab my palate knife. This is going to cook in literally seconds.

Literally seconds, this is going to cook in. Okay, so that can now come off. It's going to let that cool down for a few seconds and then we're going to cut that into little triangles, because they're traditional tortillas, and I'm going to use a flat edged knife rather than a serrated one because I find you get a much better edge.

It's worth definitely, for the first sort of thirty seconds of letting it cool down, either on a rack, because what's going to happen if you left it flush on the table, it would just go soggy. So, that's probably enough time. I'm now just going to cut that into my little triangles and then what we'll do is deep fry those off.

Right, there we have homemade tortilla chips. I'm just going to plate those up. And that's how you make tortilla chips, homemade style.

| In this VideoJug tutorial, Matt Kemp shows viewers how to make their very own homemade tortilla chips from simple ingredients like flour, baking powder and shortening. By mixing together this particular ratio of ingredients and incorporating a little air according to Matt's instructions, you will be frying up your own homemade tortillas in no time.