Recipe: Tasty Homemade Flour Tortillas

Homemade Flour Tortillas. Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Use a well-floured rolling pin to roll a dough ball into a thin, round tortilla. Place into the hot skillet, and cook until bubbly and golden; flip and continue cooking until golden on the other side.

You'll need: flour, salt, baking powder, cold lard (or cold. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large wooden bowl. You can cook Homemade Flour Tortillas using 5 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Homemade Flour Tortillas

1. It's 300 grams of All Purpose Flour.
2. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Baking powder.
4. It's 50 grams of Butter or Lard.
5. It's 1/2 cup of Hot water.

Keep the cooked tortillas in a towel, covered, to keep warm and. How to Store Homemade Flour Tortillas. While you are cooking the tortillas, it's important to keep them warm inside a towel as each one finishes cooking. Stacking them atop one another in a folded towel helps the tortillas stay warm and moist, as the residual heat stays trapped within the towel.

Homemade Flour Tortillas step by step

1. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
2. then add the butter and mix by hand or with a pastry cutter until it forms a coarse powder.
3. Add the hot water 1 tsp at a time and continue to mix well with your hands until the dough starts to stick together.
4. Then turn out the dough onto a lightly floured board and kneed for a few minutes until it forms a a smoother consistency shown here.
5. Break the dough into 6 equal pieces and form each first into a ball then squash into a small disc. Let these rest for 30 minutes under a damp cloth.
6. Heat up a pan on medium hight without any oil, then roll out your first tortilla with a rolling pin lightly dusted with flour.
7. When the pan is hot, throw on your first tortilla..
8. After about 30 seconds it should start to bubble as shown here. If not your pan may not be hot enough so check that. (This 30 seconds should be just enough time to roll out the next tortilla so you're ready to keep moving).
9. Flip the tortilla over and cook for another 20 - 30 seconds, then put onto a plate covered by a damp cloth and start cooking your next tortilla!.

You actually don't want to use a tortilla press for flour tortillas. You'll get much better results using a rolling pin. When you start putting pressure on the tortilla, you kind of strain the gluten. I've used these homemade flour tortillas for wonderful sandwich wraps. It's fun to spread them with a bit of butter and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar for a quick sweet treat.