Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, homemade flour tortillas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Get Access To Daily Recipes, Tips, Product Recommendations & So Much More! Though it may seem surprising, homemade flour tortillas are extremely easy to make at home. And they can be ready in under an hour! You'll need: flour, salt, baking powder, cold lard (or cold bacon.
Homemade Flour Tortillas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Homemade Flour Tortillas is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade flour tortillas using 5 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Flour Tortillas:
- Make ready 300 grams All Purpose Flour
- Take 1/2 tsp Salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Baking powder
- Get 50 grams Butter or Lard
- Get 1/2 cup Hot water
A typical breakfast in Sonora consists of warmed flour tortillas alongside scrambled eggs and machaca (dried, pounded beef), while in the afternoon the tortillas might be filled with beans and folded into a small burrito. 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.
Steps to make Homemade Flour Tortillas:
- Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl
- then add the butter and mix by hand or with a pastry cutter until it forms a coarse powder
- Add the hot water 1 tsp at a time and continue to mix well with your hands until the dough starts to stick together
- 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
- 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
- Heat up a pan on medium hight without any oil, then roll out your first tortilla with a rolling pin lightly dusted with flour
- When the pan is hot, throw on your first tortilla.
- 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)
- 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'll get much better results using a rolling pin. When you start putting pressure on the tortilla, you kind of strain the gluten. Add in the cold lard and butter and pulse. 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.
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