Potato chips can be made at home with just three ingredients — potatoes, salt, and oil — but we also love a good store-bought chip. Whether you serve homemade chips or season your favorite store-bought chips with a sprinkling of barbecue spices or dried caper powder, elevating this simple snack makes entertaining easy. Potato chips also work as an easy topping for side dishes, salads, and casseroles. Here are our favorite potato chip recipes for a salty, crunchy snack.
Cacio e Pepe Potato Chips
Jordan Provost / Food Styling: Two Buzzers
Upgrade your store-bought kettle cooked chips in 10 minutes by adapting the recipe for our iconic Cheese and Pepper Pasta.
Barbecue flavoured potato chips
With a few pro tips from Lucy Morrow, you can whip up some homemade barbecue chips in under an hour.
Egg and potato chip tortilla
Food & Wine / Photography: Kelsey Hansen / Food Styling: Lauren McAnelly / Prop Styling: Joseph Wanek
Celebrity chef Ferran Adrià has replaced the starchy filling of his omelette, which is traditionally made with potatoes, with these thin, crispy chips that eliminate the need to fry potato slices, turning a normally time-consuming recipe into a delicious meal in 10 minutes.
Potato chips Chopped Caesar salad
Food & Wine / Robbie Lozano / Food Styling: Renu Dhar / Prop Styling: Josh Hoggle
This fun Caesar salad swaps out the croutons for sour cream and onion chips to add extra crunch and flavor.
Squash casserole with potato chip crust
This Eastern Carolina dish piles melty cheese onto a beautifully caramelized squash mixture, topped with crunchy potato chips added midway through baking to keep it crunchy.
Lemon Caper Potato Chips
F&W’s Chandra Ram dries capers in the oven, crushes them in a food processor, and sprinkles them on casserole potato chips with lemon zest for a tart snack.
Idaho Potato Chips
All you need to make potato chips in three hours is five Idaho baked potatoes, salt, and vegetable oil.
Scrambled eggs with green onions and potato chips
© Christina Holmes
Skip the hash browns and opt for crispy, salty potato chips to contrast with chef Hugh Acheson’s soft, peppery scrambled eggs.
Classic Macaroni & Cheese with Potato Chip Crumbles
Add a salty crunch by crumbling homemade or store-bought chips and topping them on top of your mac and cheese before baking.
