One day I was home and car-less and all I wanted to eat was a tortilla
So I decided to make my own. There are only a few ingredients in Tortillas including flour and a fat, I used shortening which I am sure most of you are thinking "YUCK!" shortening, but most of you make your own tortillas with LARD and I have no idea if I'll ever be able to actually cook with LARD!
Rolling out all of those tortillas was the most time consuming and difficult part. I wanted them thin and when the first one turned out more like thick pita bread I realized that I needed to really dig in and make these suckers THIN. In the end they were still thicker than most tortillas that you buy at the grocery store, but we actually liked them the more that way.
Here is one of the tortillas cooking in my pan. Yum!
The recipe for the tortillas that I made you can find on
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Homemade Flour Tortillas Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 tablespoons lard
- 1 1/2 cups water
Directions
- Whisk the flour, salt, and baking powder together in a mixing bowl. Mix in the lard with your fingers until the flour resembles cornmeal. Add the water and mix until the dough comes together; place on a lightly floured surface and knead a few minutes until smooth and elastic. Divide the dough into 24 equal pieces and roll each piece into a ball.
- 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. Place the cooked tortilla in a tortilla warmer; continue rolling and cooking the remaining dough.
Quite good and Quite simple! Very time consuming
