How to Make Flour Tortillas

Have you ever had a craving for those delicious tortillas made fresh in restaurants? Below is an easy and quick way to make flour tortillas from scratch! You'll need to mix the dough, flatten it into rounds and cook each one on the stove to create delicious tortillas perfect for filling with taco meat or veggies.

Ingredients

• 4 cups or 512 grams  all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp or 2 - 3 grams baking powder
• 1/2 cup or 113 grams lard or butter or vegetable shortening
• 1 1/2 tsp or 7 grams salt
• 1 cup or 250 ml warm water
• 4 tbsp or 20 ml olive oil or cooking oil

Steps

1. Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl.
2. Add the shortening and mix it in with your hands until you get a coarse meal consistency.
3. Dissolve the sea salt into the water.
4. Drizzle the salt water mixture into the flour and mix with your hands into a soft dough. Add more warm water if it's not coming together, add oil and mix it again. 
5. Form the dough into a ball. Put it in a bowl and cover for 20 minutes. Resting the dough before rolling it out is the secret to making them easier to roll.
6. Break the dough ball into twelve smaller balls. Put a little bit of shortening on your hands and roll them into balls.
7. Flatten each ball out into a tortilla. Put flour on the surface before rolling them out. Get them as thin as possible.
8. Preheat a pan on medium heat. Cast iron works well for tortillas.
9. Lay the tortilla on the pan and flip after 15-20 seconds. Bubbling is normal.
10. Then you got your tortillas.