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Jeeem’s Homemade Flour Tortillas

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When I was a young kid living in El Paso, Texas, my friend Jesus Herrera and I would walk home from school and stop at his house. I loved going to his place because of the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen and the large stack of fresh flour tortillas sitting on the stove warming. We’d each grab a tortilla, slather it with butter, and proceed to drip butter all over the kitchen floor. This is the recipe!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All-purpose Flour
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ¼ cups Lard Or Crisco (original Or Butter Flavor)

Preparation

Mix all the ingredients in a large plastic mixing bowl. Knead the dough until smooth and pliable, not sticky. Add water if too dry; add more flour if too sticky.

Form dough into 2-inch-diameter balls and place on some wax paper, allowing them to rest for five minutes or so.

Flour your work surface and flatten out a dough ball into a rough round shape. Roll with your rolling pin until the dough is about a 1/4 to an 1/8 of an inch thick. Depends on what you like. I prefer thicker tortillas.

Heat a pan on the stove until hot and add a dough circle. Do not “EVER” add oil to the pan. Just a dry, hot pan. Cook tortilla about 1-1/2 minutes on both sides, or until browned.

Transfer your finished tortilla to some newspaper and place a fresh piece of newspaper on top of each tortilla. Do not stack tortillas upon one another.

Serve warm.

You can easily refrigerate these for as long as a week and sometimes more, but my recommendation is to place stack the tortillas on one another with a paper towel separating each piece and place in a plastic bag tied tightly, or use a large Tupperware container. This will preserve the moisture.

Note: The longer you cook the tortillas, the drier they will be. I have also experimented using both lard and Crisco and find lard produces better tortillas and their moisture holds better, making them more pliable when rolling them like for a burrito.

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shecancook2 on 5.18.2011

update- i used about 3/4 cups of water, give or take and the tortillas turned out beautifully!! i used crisco- as i didn’t have lard- but they turned out perfect!! i like my tortillas a bit thinner, so i rolled them out more… it was *awesome*. the texture and flavor was wonderful!! if you are rolling them thin like me, you really only need to ‘cook’ them on one side. my pan was very hot and as soon as the tortillas began to puff up, i turned them over for a few seconds and then tossed them between a towel wrapped around newspapers. i don’t like crispy tortillas, i like soft, pliable tortillas and these were just that! they tasted so much like my abuelito’s (my grandfather’s) tortillas, but he never wrote down the recipe- so this brought back so many memories of him!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!

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shecancook2 on 5.11.2011

how much water do you use?

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karac on 6.29.2011

Great recipe! I also used about 3/4 cup of warm water. After the dough was mixed, I rolled it into seperate balls and I covered them with a warm towel for about 15 minutes. This is now one of my go to recipes for tortillas. Thanks for sharing!

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shecancook2 on 5.18.2011

i used about 3/4 cups of water, give or take and the tortillas turned out beautifully!! i used crisco- as i didn’t have lard- but they turned out perfect!! i like my tortillas a bit thinner, so i rolled them out more… it was *awesome*. the texture and flavor was wonderful!! if you are rolling them thin like me, you really only need to ‘cook’ them on one side. my pan was very hot and as soon as the tortillas began to puff up, i turned them over for a few seconds and then tossed them between a towel wrapped around newspapers. i don’t like crispy tortillas, i like soft, pliable tortillas and these were just that! they tasted so much like my abuelito’s (my grandfather’s) tortillas, but he never wrote down the recipe- so this brought back so many memories of him!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!!

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