A chip (American English and Australian English) or crisp (British English) is a snack food in the form of a crisp, flat or slightly bowl shaped, bite-sized unit. Many chips are fried.
Some chips can be made into dishes and served as a side, hors d'oeuvre, etc. Some types of chip are often served in the combination plate known as chip and dip. Tortilla chips can be used in nachos or with salsa, bean dip, guacamole, or a layered dip containing multiple of these. Other chips are sweet or strongly flavored or fragile.
Popular kinds of chip
Root chips
- Potato chips, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until it gets crunchy.
- Tapioca chips, a snack food made from thin wafers of deep fried cassava roots.
Grain and bean chips
- Bean chips, these chips are prepared using beans as a primary ingredient.
- Corn chips, it is a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked.
- Pita chips, chips made of dried pita.
- Tortilla chips, a snack food that is made from corn tortillas.
- Pretzel, a chip made from flattened and baked pretzel dough.
Fruit chips (sweet chips)
Vegetable chips
- Carrot chips, a common term for carrots that have been fried or dehydrated
- Kale chips, snack food made of baked kale
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