These homemade paprika tortilla chips are crispy, smoky and packed with flavour, yet they are made with just a handful of everyday ingredients. Baked until golden rather than fried, they're a lighter alternative to shop-bought tortilla chips and are perfect for dipping, loading on nachos or serving with Homemade Chilli for some crunch.
Once you've tried making them at home, you will be surprised how easy and inexpensive they are to make. Serve them with this Lemon Dip or this rather gorgeous and creamy Sriracha Dip.
Made from flour or corn tortillas, these homemade chips are easy to tweak. Turn up the heat with chilli or experiment with different dried herbs and spices. They are perfect for movie nights, Lunchboxes, parties and Picnics.
At-a-Glance - Paprika Tortilla Chips
⏲️ Ready in: 22 minutes
👪 Serves: 60 (chips) approx.
🍽 Calories: 9
🧾 Main ingredients: flour tortillas, paprika, chilli powder
👩🏻🍳 Suitable for: Vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, egg-free, vegetarian & gluten-free (if you use gluten-free tortillas)
These are fun to make and much healthier than shop-bought chips. Perfect snackage!
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⭐ Why You'll Love These Homemade Tortilla Chips
- Crispy and crunchy
- Ready in under 25 minutes
- Made with just a few simple ingredients
- Super easy to make
- Less oil than shop-bought chips
- Easy to tweak the flavours
- Bake in the oven or an air fryer
- Great way to use up leftover flour tortillas
- Perfect to share
👩🏻🍳 Why make tortilla chips at home
- You can control the seasoning
- Less oil used
- No unnecessary additives or preservatives
- Cheaper than buying tortilla chips
- You can make them as spicy as you like
🧾 What You Need
Why buy chips when they are so easy to make? Here are the simple ingredients you need.
The recipe card contains the full ingredient list and method.
- Flour tortillas - you can use flour tortillas, corn tortillas or flavoured tortillas
- Herbs - dried herbs can be added
- Garlic - you can also add garlic powder
💭 Which Tortillas Make the Best Chips
| Flour Tortillas | Corn Tortillas |
|---|---|
| Lighter & crisp texture | More traditional ingredient |
| Slightly softer crunch | Extra crunchy |
| Great for seasoning | Classic nacho flavour |
| Brown more quickly | Stays crisp for longer |
However, either works really well, so use what you have or buy what's on special offer.
👩🏻🍳 How to Make Paprika Chips
Step-by-step photos to show how easy these spicy homemade chips are to make.
- Step 1: Preheat the oven and make the flavoured oil
- Step 2: Cut the torillas into triangles and spread in a single layer on baking trays.
- Step 3: Brush the tortilla chips (both sides) with the flavoured oil.
- Step 4: Keep going until all the chips are coated.
- Step 5: Bake until crisp and golden.
- Step 6: Serve the crunchy chips with a creamy dip and enjoy!
👩🏻🍳 How to Get Perfectly Crisp Chips
- Arrange the chips in a single layer
- Don't overlap them
- Brush lightly with flavoured oil rather than soaking them
- Turn the tray during cooking, if your oven has hot areas
- Leave to cool on the tray; they will crisp as they cool.
👩🏻🍳 Why season Chips with Paprika?
- Smoky sweetness
- Vibrant colour
- Gentle warmth without heat
- Flavour pairs well with salsa, guacamole and creamy dips
There are three main types of paprika, sweet paprika, which is mild, smoked paprika, which has a stronger smoky flavour and hot paprika, which as you can imagine has quite a bit of heat.
🧂 More Seasoning Ideas
- Classic - just olive oil and salt
- Smoky BBQ - smoked paprika, garlic powder & onion powder
- Chilli lime - chilli powder and lime zest
- Garlic & herb - garlic granules (or garlic powder), oregano & parsley
- Taco - Homemade Taco Seasoning
- Cinnamon - for a sweet option, add sugar and cinnamon
- Pizza - season with homemade Pizza Seasoning
- Cheesy - season with this homemade Vegan Parmesan
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👩🏻🍳 How to serve tortilla chips
- With guacamole or Salsa
- Hummus
- Lemon & Chive Dip
- Served as nachos topped with cheese and served with sour cream, salsa and guacamole
- Crumbled over soup
- Served with chilli
- Added to taco bowls
- Served with burritos, try these Spicy Bean Burritos
💭 FAQs
It could be the oven wasn't hot enough, the chips didn't have enough room or were overlapping while cooking, or there was too much oil.
They are cut into uneven sizes, your oven runs hot or they were overbaked.
They weren't fully baked, not cooled properly or the container you stored them in was not airtight.
Yes, give them plenty of room and keep an eye on them as they will cook quicker.
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📖 Recipe
Easy Paprika Tortilla Chips
Ingredients
- 3 large flour tortillas or corn tortillas
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon paprika
- pinch chilli powder be generous
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180c/160c fan/350f/Gas Mark 4.
- Mix the oil, spices and seasoning and set aside.
- Cut the tortillas in 4 long strips, then cut into triangles.
- Lay in a single layer on a large tray or trays.
- Brush each chip on either side. Bake for 12 minutes until crisp and a good deep colour.
- Leave to cool on the tray. Once cool, try one to check the seasoning. If it needs a bit more you can add a little more salt.
- Serve with dip.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- You might need a bit extra seasoning if you are over-generous when brushing the chips, just make another half batch up.
- As long as they are cool, you can keep in an airtight tub or sealed freezer bag for later.
- They are great served with a creamy dip, but good on their own too.
Ruth K says
How long will they stay fresh in a sealed container?
Jacqueline Meldrum says
They are definitely ok the next day, but I've never had them last longer than that. If there is too much in a batch you can cut the batch down.
Janet says
These are good 😋 but I spread the oil first then cut them up, messy on the chopping board but much less fiddly 😄
Jacqueline Meldrum says
Oh my goodness, why don't I do that? You've put me to shame haha.
Helen says
With smoked hummus these are a delight,
But in a sandwich with vegan cheese... Oh my, wow
Jacqueline Meldrum says
What a brilliant idea! I have to go try that now!
Mandy says
Thanks for linking to my cauliflower hummus. These sound delicious!
Jacqueline Meldrum says
You are right about the brushes, it always happens. Do try this flavour combo.