Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Homemade Flour Tortillas

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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.

Homemade Flour Tortillas 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 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Flour Tortillas

  1. Prepare 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
  2. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
  3. It's 1 tsp of salt.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsps of shortening (optional).
  5. You need of Luke warm water or milk for kneading.

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 ingredients together, add the warm water or milk and make a soft dough..
  2. Knead it well..
  3. Let it rest covered for about 20 minutes, then divide the dough into 10 equal portions..
  4. Roll each one out as thin as you can..
  5. Once all are rolled out, heat a nonstick pan and place the tortillas one at a time, cooking each briefly for a few seconds on medium-high heat then turning it to cook the other side until bubbly and slightly golden..
  6. Don't overcook them as you need them to be soft and pliable, not crisp or hard..
  7. Keep the ready ones covered in a hotpot or under a towel to keep them soft..

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.