Tortillas - never buy again!

[bae]

Tonight I made up a really nice guacamole, then noticed I was out of tortillas.

The Market is a 7 minute drive each way, plus then I'd need to deal with the covid-tourist-zombies. Bother.

Wait, I watched "Tortilla Flats" last night, where the Dad lovingly hand-made a tortilla just to use in his signature tortilla soup. It looked simple enough, and what looked like the whole recipe was shown in seconds in the film.

Well, took me 3 minutes to mix up the dough as best I guessed, cooked the little guys in a cast iron skillet with a teeny bit of oil until they looked correct, and, man....

Wow. So easy, so good, and pretty darned quick. Way faster than driving to the market. I suspect 1/10 the materials cost too, just flour, water, salt, some oil.

[razz]

Tonight I made up a really nice guacamole, then noticed I was out of tortillas.

The Market is a 7 minute drive each way, plus then I'd need to deal with the covid-tourist-zombies. Bother.

Wait, I watched "Tortilla Flats" last night, where the Dad lovingly hand-made a tortilla just to use in his signature tortilla soup. It looked simple enough, and what looked like the whole recipe was shown in seconds in the film.

Well, took me 3 minutes to mix up the dough as best I guessed, cooked the little guys in a cast iron skillet with a teeny bit of oil until they looked correct, and, man....

Wow. So easy, so good, and pretty darned quick. Way faster than driving to the market. I suspect 1/10 the materials cost too, just flour, water, salt, some oil.

I looked for a recipe. https://www.cocoaandheart.co.uk/blog...ad-recipe.html
Did you make them with white or whole wheat flour, Bae?

[happystuff]

That's great! Did you roll out or hand shape? I have a terrible time trying to hand shape tortillas and usually end up rolling them.

[herbgeek]

I love home made tortillas/chapatis, but I find they don't wrap quite as well - they often break on me, particularly if I use them the next day. I even buy special atta flour at the Indian market that specifically says it makes "soft" chapatis.

[KayLR]

I'd love to try making corn tortillas---you're inspiring me, Bae.

[bae]

Just used some random general purpose bread flour I had handy, and a combination of hand-shaping and rolling to experiment with production methods. There's clearly much room for improvement, but the initial experiment came out so nicely that it is quite encouraging.

[JaneV2.0]

I'd like to learn to make injera. It requires an extra step of fermentation, but doesn't sound difficult.