Homemade Flour Tortillas

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 -4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 -1 1/2 cup warm water

Recipe

• 1 combine the 3 cups flour, salt and baking powder in large bowl.
• 2 either by hand, or with pastry blender, work in the shortening until crumbly (you can add a little more shortening if the mixture looks too floury).
• 3 slowly add the water (i start with 1 cup and add more as needed) to flour mixture while tossing with a fork.
• 4 with your hands, knead dough vigorously for about 2 minutes, until it forms a nice dough ball.
• 5 cover with cloth and let stand at least 15 minutes.
• 6 take a ball of dough (golf ball size for small, slightly more for bigger tortillas) and roll into a ball.
• 7 roll in flour to cover.
• 8 on floured surface, roll out dough evenly and very thin.
• 9 place each tortilla on a medium hot cast iron skillet.
• 10 cook for about 1-2 minutes on each side, or until the tortilla no longer looks doughy.
• 11 note: the ingredients are fairly accurate, but feel free to adjust to get the correct consistency.