okay SO,
Have you ever wanted to make something that you buy all the time and you think "oh this is probably so easy to make i should just make my own"? For me that was tortillas, I buy them every week because well i love tacos and so does everyone else in my house. So I found a recipe awhile ago and have been wanting to try it so i did today and let me pre-warn everyone... If you are looking for beautifully round mission like flour tortillas...turn away now because mine are far from pretty and round, they look more like shadows of zoo animals, and i am completely okay with that for 2 reasons #1.they still taste really good. & #2 they make for awesome dinner conversation ("hey mom my tortilla looks like an angry bird")
Flour tortilla recipe
(makes..depends on how big your balls are)
*8c. flour
1 1/2 c vegetable oil
1tablespoon baking powder
2teaspoons salt (i used a bit more)
1 1/2c. warm water
1.mix all dry ingredients in a bowl
2.add oil and water, start mixing (i used a fork and folded it all into itself)
3.once you have most of the dry mix firm and in a glob, take it out of the bowl & kneed it on a flat surface
4. break off golf ball size pieces and let them rest under a damp paper towel for 30 mins
(i put mine on wax paper)
5. roll them flat with a rolling pin..like as flat as you can get them without tearing them
6.heat a flat griddle (or i guess you could do one at a time in a frying pan) spray it with non stick spray. cook them on each side for about 1 minute
I guess I could have rolled them out to make sure they were all round and stuff or even used a pizza cutter to make them look better...but aint nobody got time for that with 3 kids ;)
so now you will have a bunch of homemade tortillas that you know exactly what was put in them (for all the health conscious folks) & they freeze really well too!
(told you they were ugly)
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