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    Air Fryer Tortilla Chips (Low Carb)

    Published: Oct 6, 2023 · Modified: May 25, 2025 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 18 Comments

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    Air Fryer Tortilla Chips -  your favorite Mexican fried tortilla chips are made healthier with no oil using an air fryer! You can make nachos with them, dip them in guacamole, and also some salsa.

    Air fryer tortilla chips on top of a wooden serving plate.

    One of my favorite meals I love to make is nachos and the tortilla chips I was using before were way too HIGH in points. Especially Smoked Pulled Pork Nachos! If you make your own homemade tortilla chips in your air fryer, instead of using different store-bought brands the points are much better, plus you can have more.

    The air fryer is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. Check out some of these recipes! Air Fryer Omelette, Air Fryer Poutine, or Air Fryer Turkey Breast! 

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    • 💛Why You Will Love This Recipe
    • Ingredients Needed
    • How to Make Air Fryer Tortilla Chips
    • What to serve with tortilla chips?
    • Low Point Tortilla Chips
    • Recipe FAQs
    • Air Fryer Tortilla Chips

    💛Why You Will Love This Recipe

    These air fried tortilla chips are the same crunchy goodness you get from a bag of store-bought chips. I'm a ground beef nacho girl and subbing out for chicken helped lower the points for nachos. 

    I needed to find a better alternative to lower point tortilla chips and saw on Instagram that some people were making their own tortilla chips in the air fryer for way fewer points. Weight Watchers is mind-blowing to me that way.

    When you think there is no other way to make your favorite food lower in points there are people out there who know the points plan better than you and have found ways to make their favorite foods lower in points.

    Make this easy 3 Ingredient Guacamole to dip with the chips!

    Ingredients Needed

    Ingredients needed for air fryer tortilla chips.
    • Tortillas of choice - can use flour, corn, or even low carb flour tortillas. Corn works best though because they get super crispy in the air fryer. I have been loving the mission Zero Net Carb tortillas lately in the air fryer.
    • Cooking Spray or olive oil - the olive oil will add extra calories and points
    • Salt - for seasoning

    See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.

    How to Make Air Fryer Tortilla Chips

    Step 1: Set your air fryer temperature to 350 degrees. 

    Step 2: Cut the corn tortillas into triangles. I stacked the tortillas up, sliced all of them in half at once, and then divided them out into 9 triangles.

    Cut up tortillas in a triangle.

    Step 3: Place the tortilla chips into your air fryer basket and spray them with cooking spray. Sprinkle with salt and cook them for 4 to 6 minutes. Take the basket out and give the chips a test. If the chips still aren't crisp, continue cooking for another 2 minutes. 

    Tortilla Chips in an air fryer basket.

    Disclaimer: Cooking times will vary depending on what type of air fryer you use. If the settings above do not work for you adjust accordingly.

    Oven Instructions: Preheat oven to 400º. Line a cookie sheet with a rack or tinfoil. Spread the tortilla chips on the sheet pan and spray them with cooking spray. Bake for 6 minutes.  Might take up to 10 minutes, depending on your oven.

    Air Fryer Tortilla Chips for Nachos

    What to serve with tortilla chips?

    The Best Damn Guacamole Ever – Creamy, zesty, and always a crowd-pleaser.

    Smoked Salsa – Go with chunky tomato salsa, pico de gallo, or even fruit-based like mango or pineapple salsa.

    Easy Smoked Queso (Tiktok Inspired)– Warm, melty cheese dip is always a hit.

    Weight Watchers Black Bean Soup– is great for soup dipping!

    Low Point Tortilla Chips

    I went in search of low point corn tortillas and found Mission brand has a lot of flour and corn tortilla options out there. The Mission Yellow Corn Tortillas Extra Thin is 3 corn tortillas for 4 points.

    You can load up your nachos with zero point food items like rotisserie chicken, pico de gallo, lettuce, jalapenos, and Greek Yogurt! I like to stack my nachos in layers. For the nacho cheese sauce I use Tostitos Medium Con Queso Salsa. 2 tablespoons is 1 point.

    If you love these air fryer tortilla chips you have to try dipping them in my 0 smart point salsa.

    Recipe FAQs

    How do you keep tortillas from moving in an air fryer?

    Most air fryers come with accessories like trivets. Place the trivet over the tortilla chips to keep them from flying around!

    What air fryer do I use?

    Cosori 4 Qt Air Fryer- This air fryer doesn't require any preheating and has several different functions for cooking chicken, meat, frozen foods, etc. There are 5 different functions.

    Can I make tortilla chips in the oven?

    Oven Instructions: Preheat oven to 400º. Line a cookie sheet with a rack or tinfoil. Spread the tortilla chips on the sheet pan and spray them with cooking spray. Bake for 6 minutes.  Might take up to 10 minutes, depending on your oven.

    If you tried this Air Fryer Tortilla Chips or any other recipe on my website, please please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how you go in the 📝 comments below. I love hearing from you! Follow along on Tiktok @jennarecipediaries

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    Air Fryer Tortilla Chips

    5 Stars 4 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars 1 Star 4.7 from 6 reviews
    • Author: Jenna
    • Prep Time: 2 min
    • Cook Time: 8 min
    • Total Time: 10 min
    • Yield: 1 1x
    • Category: Appetizer
    • Method: Air Fryer
    • Cuisine: Mexican
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    Description

    Air Fryer Tortilla Chips -  your favorite Mexican fried tortilla chips are made healthier with less oil and fat using an air fryer! You can make nachos with them, dip them in guacamole, and salsa.


    Ingredients

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    • 3 Mission Yellow corn extra thin tortillas (or tortillas of choice)
    • Cooking Spray
    • Salt

    Instructions

    1. Set your air fryer temperature to 350 degrees.
    2. Cut the corn tortillas into triangles. I stacked the tortillas up, sliced all of them in half at once and then divided them out into 9 triangles.
    3. Place the tortilla chips into your air fryer basket and spray them with cooking spray. Sprinkle with salt and cook them for 4 to 6 minutes. Take the basket out and give the chips a test. If the chips still aren't crisp, continue cooking for another 2 minutes. 
    4. Disclaimer: Cooking times will vary depending on what type of air fryer you use. If the settings above do not work for you adjust accordingly. 
    5. Oven Instructions: Preheat oven to 400º. Line a cookie sheet with a rack or tinfoil. Spread the tortilla chips on the sheet pan and spray them with cooking spray. Bake for 6 minutes.  Might take up to 10 minutes, depending on your oven.

    Notes

    My WW Personal Points: 3 Click here to see in recipe builder (will have to log in)

    Since air fryers cook food with circulating air over the top, the tortilla chips might move around a lot in the air fryer. Use a trivet and set them over the top of the chips to keep them from moving around in the air fryer.


    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 3 tortilla chips
    • Calories: 120
    • Sugar: 3
    • Fat: 1.5g
    • Saturated Fat: 0g
    • Carbohydrates: 24g
    • Fiber: 3g

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    Comments

    1. Jenna says

      July 17, 2021 at 7:06 am

      Thanks, Ashok! Hope your friends like it

    2. ashok says

      July 16, 2021 at 11:28 pm

      Thanks For Sharing this amazing recipe. My family loved it. I will be sharing this recipe with my friends. Hope the will like it.

    3. Jenna says

      July 05, 2021 at 7:37 am

      Glad they worked out!

    4. Aimee says

      July 04, 2021 at 5:54 pm

      Worked great and I use low-carb tortillas as well.

    5. Jenna says

      March 17, 2021 at 3:41 pm

      Thanks, Melodie!

    6. melodie a gentry says

      March 17, 2021 at 3:24 pm

      Perfect with spinach tortillas, spritz of lemon zest & olive oil, sprinkle of rosemary...big hit!

    7. Jenna says

      February 13, 2021 at 9:08 pm

      A trivet will help prevent the chips from flying around in the air fryer. I mentioned that under the section titled Tips for Air Fryer Tortilla Chips. 🙂

    8. lily says

      February 13, 2021 at 8:45 pm

      I almost burned my air fryer! it started smoking bc the a piece of the tortilla got stuck at the top

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