Tortillas made with love
Sometime ago, hubby had a craving for tortillas. He shopped for the tortillas, looked up the recipes for the filling and did them himself. We tried a few brands and types of tortillas. Somehow we weren't totally happy with the tortillas because some were too thick, some too dry and we felt we were sort of eating dry flour. I decided then to make my own tortillas. I googled and came up with a few recipes, opting of course for the simplest, easiest and especially if it had pictures but as usual, not many had pictures, just text. I can't remember where I got the recipe below but it works great!
FLOUR TORTILLAS
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour (I usually use 1 cup flour and 1 cup whole wheat flour, healthier, well, that is what I believe)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup lard or vegetable shortening (Crisco)
2/3 to 1 cup hot water
Method:
- In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients.
- Rub in the shortening until the mixture resembles very coarse meal. (Hubby does step 1 and 2. Rub in the shortening using your finger tips. DO NOT KNEAD IT IN!)
- Mix in the hot water until mixture is sticky but can be used to form a ball.
- Set the dough aside for at least 30 mins.
- Form dough balls the size of a small plum and roll in flour. (the size depends on how big you want your tortillas to be)
- Heat a flat pan over medium to medium high heat.
- Roll out the dough into very thin discs (well, I like them thin so it depends on your preference).
- Cook tortillas in pan, turning when it gets slightly brown and bubbles on the surface (it will puff up) - also done by Hubby.
- When both sides are done, place on a dish and cover with a slightly damp dish towel. Then cover with a dry towel. (I don't really do this part. I just allow them to cool down then stack them up.)
Usually, I can get about 12 tortillas so after they cool down, I will stack them up, put them in a ziploc bag and store in the fridge. Just reheat them in the pan when you want to eat them.)
I love doing the tortillas, mostly because it is done with Hubby. I don't like rubbing in the shortening, just feels too oily on my hands but he would do that for me and also the frying while I do the rolling out. We get it done in just a short period of time.
