Homemade Flour Tortillas
Simple and Easy flour tortillas.
Cost: $3.00
Equipment
- Rolling pin, parchment paper, cast iron skillet or frying pan, stand mixer, dough attachment or hand mixer
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour all purpose flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup warm water Not hot water.
Instructions
- Add three cups of all-purpose flour to a medium mixing bowl or stand mixer bowl.
- Add salt and baking soda. Using a whisk mix to combine
- Attach your bowl and dough hook attachment to the stand mixer.
- Turn on your stand mixer to its lowest speed.
- Slowly add your vegetable oil to the ingredients within its bowl. Allow a few moments to combine with flour, salt, and baking soda.
- Slowly add warm water. Allowing stand mixer to blend water/flour mix between pours. Continue slowly adding and mixing until the water is completely added.
- Allow stand mixer to knead the dough until wet and dry ingredients and thoroughly combined and has pulled away from the mixing bowl. Let the mixer knead dough for an additional minute.
- Remove dough hook and mixer bowl and set contents onto your flour-dusted work surface.
- Remove dough hook and hand knead for one minute.
- Rolling tortilla dough into a ball and then flatten into a thick disk
- Cut dough disk into 8 to 16 sections. Less sections will make larger tortillas.
- Roll sections into balls.
- Use the palm of your had to flatten each ball into thick disks.
- Cover with a dampened towel and allow to rest for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, pat or roll dough into thin round tortillas. Lol, I can't roll into round tortillas.
- Note: You can also use a flat surface such as a flat frying pan to press down and flatten the dough into tortillas. You can also use a tortilla press.
- Immediately set formed tortillas into heated cast iron skillet, one at a time. Heat 15-20 seconds, flip, and repeat. Repeat the process until all of the tortillas have cooked.
- Great for chicken fajitas, burritos or soft tacos.