You can make your own potato chips at home with just three ingredients: potatoes, salt and oil, but we also have a weakness for a quality store-bought bag of chips. Whether you’re serving homemade potato chips or jazzing up your favorite store-bought brand with barbecue spices or dried caper dust, elevating this simple snacking pleasure makes entertaining easy. Potato chips can also serve as an unpretentious topping for side dishes, salads or stews. Here are our favorite potato chip recipes that celebrate this salty, crunchy snack.
Cacio and Pepe Potato Chips
Jordan Provost / Food styling by Thu Buser
Apply the iconic cheesy and peppery pasta mixture to upgrade store-bought kettle-cooked potato chips in 10 minutes.
Spicy BBQ Potato Chips
Photo by Victor Protasio / Food styling by Margaret Dickey / Prop styling by Claire Spollen
Homemade barbecue chips are ready in under an hour with a few pro tips from Lucy Morrow.
Egg and potato chip tortilla
Food & Wine / Photo by Kelsey Hansen / Food Styling by Lauren McAnelly / Accessories Styling by Joseph Wanek
Celebrity chef Ferran Adrià replaces the starch in this omelette traditionally made with potatoes. Thin, crispy chips eliminate the hassle of frying potato slices, transforming a typically time-consuming recipe into a tasty 10-minute meal.
Chopped Caesar salad with potato chips
Food & Wine / Robby Lozano / Food Styling by Renu Dhar / Prop Styling by Josh Hoggle
Swap out the croutons for sour cream and onion chips for extra crunch and flavor in this fun twist on Caesar salad.
Squash Casserole with Potato Chip Crust
Photo by Jennifer Causey / Food styling by Melissa Gray / Prop styling by Heather Chadduck Hillegas
This Eastern Carolina dish features gooey cheese melted over a gloriously caramelized squash mixture, topped with crispy potato chips added halfway through cooking to keep them crunchy.
Lemon-Caper Potato Chips
Guillermo Riveros / Food styling by Dana Beninati
F&W’s Chandra Ram dries capers in the oven then grinds them in a food processor for dust, which she sprinkles on kettle-cooked chips, along with lemon zest, for this tangy, tangy snack.
