Homemade Baked Corn Tortilla Strips

These crispy homemade baked corn tortilla strips are easy to make in the oven. Seasoned corn baked tortilla strips have the perfect crunch for soups or salads.

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Seasoning Ideas For Baked Corn Tortilla Strips

This baked tortilla strip recipe is versatile. Season homemade baked tortilla strips them with your favorite spices or ingredients.

Baked corn tortilla strip seasoning ideas:

• cumin
• coriander
• oregano
• cayenne pepper or paprika
• chili powder
• onion or garlic powder
• taco or fajita pre-made seasoning
• splash of fresh lemon, lime, or orange juice
• flavored cooking sprays

How To Make Baked Corn Tortilla Strips In The Oven

• Preheat oven to 350F.  
• Line a baking sheet with aluminum or parchment (for easy clean up) and or lightly spray/spread with vegetable oil.
• Grab 3-4 corn tortillas. Cut the round edges off the tortillas to form a square If you want perfectly uniform tortilla strips.
• Use scissors to cut tortilla strips to desired thinness / thickness. Cut the tortilla into half or thirds before making thin ¼" strips. Cutting the whole tortilla strips into thirds may make for more manageable strips to shove in your mouth 🙂
• Lay strips on baking sheet and mix in seasoning.  
• Evenly spread out the corn strips in a thin layer.  You may need to do this in batches if the pan is too crowded.
• Bake for 12 - 18 minutes or until crispy (take them out of the oven before they are too crispy because they will continue to cook for a couple minutes).
• Cool completely and store in a cracked (this ensures they don't get too soggy) plastic bag for 3-4 days.

Homemade crispy baked tortilla strips are the perfect garnish for soup or salad.

Troubleshooting Homemade Baked Tortilla Strips

Try not to crowd the sheet pan. In the image in this post, there are more tortilla strips than preferable on the uncooked sheet pan, but in the end it works, because they are cooked a little longer. Additionally, don't forget to turn/stir them in the oven half way through the cooking time.

Cooking time will vary depending on how thin / thick the strips are cut, how hot the oven is (it may run hot or colder than calibrated ovens), and how crowded the sheet pan is.

The thicker the tortilla strips are the longer they need to bake by a couple minutes. Thinner tortilla strips cook a wee bit faster.

There is also a fine line between cooking tortilla strips not enough and cooking them too much.

Take out the baked tortilla strips when they are crispy (but not well done!) as they will continue to cook and harden for another couple minutes outside of the oven.

Additionally, remove the crispy tortilla strips immediately from the pan so that they stop cooking.

How To Store Baked Corn Tortilla Strips

Baked tortilla strips need to be cooled completely before storing in a cracked plastic ziploc bag or slightly cracked container.

Cracking the ziploc bag / container ensures that any excess moisture can so they don't become soggy.

This also allows the baked tortilla strips to stay crispy longer. However, you can close the bag the next day or later that day if you don't see any moisture accumulating in the bag.

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