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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Mix the dry ingredients. | 2. Add oil and mix with hands. | 3. Mixing with your hands, add water a little at a time, until you get a soft dough. | 4. You should be able to mix in all the dry ingredients, but the dough shouldn't be sticky. | 5. (You can add in more flour if you add too much water.) On a floured surface, knead the dough for 2- 4 minutes, adding flour if the dough is sticky. | 6. Form dough into a ball, cover with towel and place upside down bowl over dough. | 7. Let the dough rest for 15-20 minutes. | 8. NOTE: the dough will not rise, this just rests the gluten. | 9. Heat ungreased griddle to medium-high. | 10. Break off golf-ball sized pieces of dough and flatten into 5 inch circles. | 11. On a floured surface roll out tortillas using a back and forth motion, turning the tortilla 1/4 turn after each roll. | 12. Flip the tortilla at least once. | 13. Place tortilla on hot griddle and cook till bubbles rise (20-25 seconds). | 14. Flip and cook on the other side 20-25 seconds. | 15. Finished tortillas will be speckled with brown. | 16. Place cooked tortilla in a bowl covered and lined with a towels. | 17. NOTE: When you get good you should be able to roll out a tortilla while one on the griddle cooks. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	4	cups		2313.12	506.4216	37.604	8.9744
salt	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
baking powder	1	tablespoon		7.314	3.8226	0.0	0.0
vegetable oil	3	tablespoons		351.69599999999997	0.0	0.0	40.8
water	1 1/2	1/2		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.