Does anyone have a recipe for authentic homeade flour tortillas?!
Does anyone have a recipe for authentic homeade flour tortillas?
Answers:
Fresh Homemade Flour Tortillas
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups unbleached flour
1 1/4 cups warm water
5 tablespoons shortening or lard
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS:
Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Add the shortening or lard. Use your clean hands to cut in the shortening or lard.
Add warm water a little at a time until your dough is not sticky. Knead the dough for a few minutes.
Pull off equal sized pieces to make about 12 small dough balls. Let them rest for about 15 minutes or longer.
While dough is resting, heat up the pan. A cast iron skillet works well, or you can buy a comal. This is like a skillet but with low sides. For you cooks that like it authentic, comals are made for cooking tortillas.
Heat the pan at medium heat. You don't want the tortillas to cook too fast.
Roll the dough out with your smallest rolling pin, or a palote if you have one. Dust each dough ball with a little flour just before you roll it out.
Lay the rolling pin in the center of the dough ball and roll up and out from all sides. Keep doing that until you get it to a good round shape and fairly thin(about 1/8" or less).
Lay your tortilla on the hot pan. After just about 10-15 seconds, flip to the other side for a few seconds more. When they are done they should have lots of little brown spots.
Stack and cover them one-by-one in a clean towel as you cook them. Or you can use a tortilla warmer to keep them warm. They are now ready to be eaten.
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The next of our tortilla recipes is for corn tortillas. These are super easy to make, and use only two ingredients.
A tortilla press is often used to make corn tortillas. It is a device that flattens the dough out to make more a uniform circle. A tortilla press is not mandatory for any of the tortilla recipes, so don't sweat it if you don't want to buy one.
Source(s):
http://www.texasbarbeques.com/tortilla_r...
just flour and water, some bags come with the recipe,
Flour Tortilla Recipe
* 2 cups all purpose flour
* 1/4 cup vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
* 1/2 tsp. salt
* 1/2 tsp. baking powder
* 3/4 cup warm water
In a bowl, blend flour, salt, baking powder and shortening until it resembles fine meal.
Add warm water, a little at a time, to flour mixture and toss until liquid is incorporated. Water amountwill vary with different flour types.
Form dough into a ball and kneed on a floured surface until dough is smooth and elastic. Divide, and make 12 smaller balls. Cover and let stand at least 30 minutes.
Cooking Tortilla:
Roll each ball of dough on a floured surface to make 6 or 7 inch sized tortillas. Place on a pre-heated griddle or cast iron skillet and cook till medium golden on both sides.
Remove to a basket lined with a cloth towel or put between a towel until cool.After the tortillas have cooled completely, store themin a plastic bag. This recipe will make approximately 12 flour tortillas.
Homemade Flour Tortillas
Serves: 5
2 cups flour, white
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortning
3/4 cup water, hot
Mix flour and salt together. Cut in shortening until crumbly and then mix in the water. Roll out ping pong sixe balls on a well floured surface and cook in a nonstick pan on medium heat. When tortilla starts to bubble up turn over immediatly and be ready to take it out as it only needs 20 seconds on the other side.
Note: Do not overcook, they are meant to be soft and bendable.