Homemade flour tortilla. Take your tortillas to the next level with this easy recipe featuring basic pantry ingredients. Perfect for loading up with your favorite fillings, it's the delicious base to your tacos, wraps and quesadillas. Soft and delicious tortilla made from scratch!
It’s nearly impossible to resist soft fluffy tortillas loaded with delicious fillings. They are actually the ideal way to get the right amount of carbs, veggies and protein in your diet, and always come with umpteen options to customize.
This delicious homemade flour tortilla is just like your favorite restaurant version, but simpler, healthier, and easy to make with the help of a few pantry staples. Obviously, it’s a great vehicle to add your favorite taco fillings and customize them anyway you want. This is the perfect tortilla recipe you need to DIY your favorite tacos, wraps and quesadillas.
Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe
The recipe is pretty straightforward. And the ingredients are super simple too. All you need are a few pantry staples - flour, baking powder, oil and water. The humble ingredients that always secure an important position in your kitchen.
Again, this recipe for simple tortillas is totally vegan making them the perfect base for your plant based fillings. Ok, let’s turn a few basic ingredients into beautifully soft tortillas.
The first step in making this homemade flour tortilla is bringing together flour, baking powder and oil. Don’t forget to season the dough with a pinch of salt. To make these tortillas as soft as possible, I’m going to add hot water to the mixture.
Make sure the water is hot but not boiling. Using a spoon, bring all the ingredients together, and knead into a soft dough. Divide it into 8 small or 10 large tortillas. Roll into balls and cover with a damp tea towel. Let this rest for at least 15 minutes.
Now, the final step - roll out the dough. Brush with oil, butter or ghee and cook in a cast iron pan. To make this flatbread healthier, you can use wholemeal flour.
Basic homemade flour tortilla that tastes incredibly delicious!
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Homemade Flour Tortilla | Video
Ingredients
- 2 and ½ cups all purpose flour plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅓ cup oil I used veg oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ - ¾ cup hot water not boiling water
- Extra flour for dusting
- Oil melted butter or ghee, for brushing tortillas
- Chopped coriander or parsley to garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Place flour, baking powder, salt and oil in a large bowl.
- Starting with ½ cup water, bring the ingredients together with a wooden spoon to form soft dough.
- Dust a clean work surface with flour and tip out the dough. Knead for a minute or two until all the ingredients are combined and the dough is soft.
- Divide dough into 8-10 equal parts. You will get 8 large or 10 medium tortillas. Roll into balls. Cover with a damp tea towel. Set aside for 15 -20 minutes.
- Dust a clean work surface and rolling pin with flour. Pat and flatten the dough balls slightly, then roll out each ball into 10 cm rounds.
- Place a cast iron pan or frying pan over medium heat. When the pan is hot, place the rolled out tortilla in it. When one side puffs up, flip over and brush with oil or melted butter. Flip again and brush the other side with oil or melted butter. When both sides are cooked with beautiful brown spots, remove from pan.
- Repeat with the remaining rolled out tortillas.
- Sprinkle with chopped coriander (cilantro) or parsley if you like.
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Notes
- Use this tortillas to make tacos, burritos and quesadillas.
- You can also serve this with soups and dips
- Replace all purpose (plain) flour with wholemeal flour if you like
- Adding aromatics like dried oregano, chili flakes to the dough level up the flavor
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