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Healthy Homemade Tortillas

September 25, 2017

stack of Homemade TortillasThis recipe makes a great tasting tortilla without the shortening or lard. It also sneaks in a little bit of whole wheat flour for added nutrition and a richer taste.

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Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Yield: about 20 medium size tortillas

Source: Thibeault's Table

Link: Flour Tortilla Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1 cup warm water
Healthy Homemade Tortillas ingredients
 

Steps:

  1. Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl.
  2. mixing flour and baking powder
     
  3. Tease in the canola oil with your fingertips, until the flour mixture resembles crumbs.
  4. adding oil to flour
     
  5. Add the water, working it in until sticky dough forms. Add more water by tablespoon increments if necessary.
  6. adding water to flour mixture
     
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  7. Knead together until they collect into a firm dough.
  8. ball of dough
     
  9. Wrap the dough in plastic and let rest at least 30 minutes to soften and set the form.
  10. plastic wrapped ball of dough
     
  11. Divide the dough into quarters and form each quarter into a rough log.
  12. ball od dough cut in quarters
     
    dough quarters formed in logs
     
  13. Next cut each log into 4 or 5 roughly equal pieces.
  14. logs of dough cut in quarters
     
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  15. Form each piece into a small ball and arrange in a separate corner of the counter (you need elbow room to roll them out into tortillas). I found it was easy to tear a small chunk off of each ball to make the tortillas approximately the same size. Of course, squish the scraps together into new tortilla pieces! Save one or two small, uneven scraps to use as testers.
  16. balls of dough
     
  17. Pat the tops with a wet paper towel to lock in some moisture as they sit. Then, cover them with plastic wrap while shaping and cooking the tortillas.
  18. balls of dough covered with plastic
     
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  19. To make the tortillas uniformly round, start by flattening the dough into a small, thick circle.
  20. flattened ball of dough
     
    flattened ball of dough
     
  21. Then take a rolling pin halfway through the circle and push the dough out away from the center. Rotate the tortilla 90 degrees and roll the dough outwards again. Repeat this process until you come full circle. Cycle through a 360 degree turn two to three more times, until the dough appears almost paper thin, about 2 mm thick uncooked.
  22. flattening tortilla with rolling pin
     
    rolled Tortilla
     
  23. Preheat the skillet to medium heat. Roll out a tester scrap almost paper thin and place on the skillet. The open side should start to gather air bubbles within 30 seconds. As soon as the air pockets have formed, flip the tortilla tester. A well cooked tortilla should have brown, but not charred, spots on each side.
  24. dough tester cooking in skillet
     
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  25. Wrap the cooked tortillas in a damp, clean towel as they cool. This prevents tortillas from becoming brittle. Once all of the tortillas are cooked, tranfer to storage bags for the remainder of their cooling. Wait to seal the bags until the tortillas are all the way cooked.
  26. towel wrapped cooked tortillas
     
  27. Eat 'em up!
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