Saturday, March 5, 2016

Flour Tortillas (no leaven)

I had some AP flour I didn't know what to do with and it suddenly occurred to me to try making my own tortillas. I made these without any leavening and more or less followed this recipe:

Ingredients:
1 cup AP flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoons oil
1/4 cup warm water

Procedure:

Mix flour and salt in bowl.
Add oil and stir until well combined.
Add warm water 1 tablespoon at a time until the mixture starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
Knead dough on floured board for about 3 minutes.
Allow dough to rest for 15 minutes.
Roll dough into sausage-shape and then cut into 6 equal parts.
With a glass bottle, roll each little ball into a tortilla. I couldn't make it round!
Heat a skillet over medium heat. Toast the tortillas in a dry pan for about 30 seconds on each side for soft tortillas or longer for crisp tortillas.

Here are the ugly finished products.

I don't think they're supposed to look like this but they tasted fine despite looking uncooked in parts.

Next time I'll use baking powder so they're fluffier and maybe more like pitas than flour tortillas.