Recipes Using Leftover Chips

RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by coreenhart (175) | (01/28/2008) Profile | Blog! | Contact Make this easy dish! Put the chips (or dried-out tortillas) in a skillet. Add some cooked meat if you have it, maybe some leftover veggies and some taco sauce. Heat through. Melt a little cheese on the top and serve. We have made this many times. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by crafty1960 (6) | (01/28/2008) Profile | Blog! | Contact If you have a food processor or electric food chopper, chop them up real fine when nobody's around to see you doing it, and use any where you need bread crumbs or coating. Coat Chicken, Pork Chops, or fish. Put on top of casserole, or soup. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by susanmajp (602) | (01/28/2008) Profile | Contact If you are talking about all the broken chips that are at the end of the bag, I save them in an airtight container. When I have enough, I make taco salad with them (it doesn't matter if they are stale). Save them all together: regular tortilla chips, seasoned nacho chips, frito chips... I brown the meat, pour in the sauce/seasoning and heat. Pour the broken chips in a large bowl, add the grated cheese, and the hot meat, and mix. The hot meat will melt the cheese so it'll be all goey. If too dry, add some salsa. Then scoop into individual bowls and top with shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, guacomole, sour cream, sliced olives, chopped onions, more cheese, or whatever your family likes. No one realizes that you are using leftover chips. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by cfbandit (75) | (01/28/2008) Contact Potato chips are good as topping for baked chicken, or used in casseroles with some french friend onions. Leftover tortilla chips are perfect for tortilla soup since they'll get soggy anyway. I also use them in taco casseroles and my husband's never complained. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By (Guest Post) (01/28/2008) I keep my chips tightly closed or in an air tight container so they don't get stale so I really don't know what stale chips are, but there are a lot of great ideas here! RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by kimhis (535) | (01/27/2008) Contact Five minutes in a warm oven and they are snappy fresh again. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Marna (Guest Post) (01/27/2008) Around here, corn chips go to the hens; potato chips get crushed and put on top of tuna noodle casserole. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by mom-from-missouri (65) | (01/27/2008) Profile | Contact I am so cheap, I save everything!! I even save crumbs such a chips, ceareal, bread..and keep them in a jar to use for my own "shake n bake" for meats or fried veggies. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by GrammySheila (95) | (01/27/2008) Profile | Contact I make Tuna Casserole using older chips. Mix 1 can Cream of Mushroom soup and 1 soupcan of milk in a mixing bowl. Add drained tuna, one drained can of peas and the crushed chips. Pour into a baking dish and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Remove from oven, top with sliced American Cheese and return to oven until cheese is lightly browned and bubbly. God Bless! Sheila in Titusville, Florida RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by Great Granny Vi (276) | (01/26/2008) Profile | Contact I add a few crushed of cornchips to my tuna sandwich, that way I still get the taste but cut calories. My granddaughter and I like crushed potato chips added on top of our potato salad.The rest of the family thinks we're nuts,but we like it anyway. GG,Vi RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Carol (Guest Post) (01/26/2008) I do a thing kind of like Belinda's above, except that I just make a little batch of simple chili - ground turkey/beans/t-sauce/garlic & chili powder - add whatever you want. If I have a green pepper that needs to be eaten I add that; sometimes a can of corn, drained. Add a cup or so of extra water so it's on the soupy side. Then munch your chips a little bit (not to crumbs), dump in bottom of a greased casserole, dump the chili on top of that, top with a cup or so of cheese, and bake - probably 350 probably 30 minutes. Precision is absolutely unnecessary in any of the above. (Just don't over-brown the cheese - YUK!) Anyway, it tastes kind of like enchiladas. My family loves it! We call it "Stale Chips Divine"! RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by katklaw777 (1) | (01/25/2008) Contact I crush and use leftover chips in my meatloaf and meatballs. I don't add extra salt to that batch because the chips are already salted.(I add shredded veggies to make them healthier too!) Also Rachel Ray just made a delicious looking chicken tortilla soup/stew that used about 2 cups crushed tortilla chips as a thickener. It looked scrumptious! RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by reddkkat (5) | (01/25/2008) Contact Smash up and use for breading for pork chops and chicken. Yummy! I saw this on the food network and that is all I use now. My family loves it. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Dianne J (Guest Post) (01/25/2008) I use the tortilla chips in Mexican casseroles and taco salad. You can also put them in a bowl and put chili on top of them, like Frito pie. Potato chips can be crunched and added to meatloaf and to some casseroles. If they're crunched enough, you can add them to stew or sprinkle on tomato soup. I've seen a couple of recipes for cookies using potato chip crumbs, but I've never tried them. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Cobb_mom (Guest Post) (01/25/2008) I actually bake the old chips to re-crisp them, and, frankly, my family likes them better that way than when they are fresh out of a new bag! Just watch them so they don't burn. Try it, you might be surprised! Then, if you still have any left that still don't get eaten, you can try one of the other clever ideas posted here. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By tina (Guest Post) (01/25/2008) Make potato chip cookies. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Belinda (Guest Post) (01/24/2008) You can crush the tortilla chips and put in the bottom of a baking dish. Add about a cup or so of chicken broth. Top with hambuger that has been fixed as for tacos with a can of refried beans added. Top all with two cups of cheddar cheese and bake for about 30 minutes at 350. The base will be like tamales and your family will never know what it really is! This is really yummy! RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by Starchild in VT (115) | (01/24/2008) Profile | Contact I use chips to top my tuna casserole. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post by perfumed fan (411) | (01/24/2008) Profile | Contact I don't know about the tortilla chips but you can use crushed potato chips in biscuits and in coatings for fish, chicken, and pork. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By tj (Guest Post) (01/24/2008) Crush them and use as: - a crunchy topping for casseroles or soups - the crunchy breading on oven-baked "fried" chicken To keep the chips fresh longer and cut down on food waste, when you first open the bag, place half in an airtight container. Let the family eat what's left in the original bag first and then tell them they must finish what's in the airtight container before opening another bag. RE: Recipes Using Leftover Chips Post By Debbie (Guest Post) (01/24/2008) I use older tortilla chips in Taco Salad. Older tater chips are great crunched over Tuna/macaroni cassarole.