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Homemade Flour Tortillas

February 15 By Renée 28 Comments

Homemade flour tortillas are surprisingly easy to make! With just a simple list of ingredients and a few turns of the rolling pin, you can have warm, fresh, delicious homemade tortillas ready to serve in about a half an hour!

Homemade Tortillas - title

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It’s been more than twenty years since I had homemade tortillas for the first time, and the memory is as fresh as if it had happened yesterday.

I remember watching fascinated as our cousin Leah, the Mexican-born daughter of Christian missionaries, rolled out one tortilla after another in well-practiced rhythm, flour motes dancing with each turn of her pin.

In well-practiced rhythm, Leah rolled, flipped, turned, and fried each circle of dough with machine-like consistency; quickly building a stack of warm, floury flat-breads tall enough to feed our small army of children.

Soft, flavorful, and tender, Leah’s homemade flour tortillas made nearly every tortilla I’d eaten up until then taste like flattened papier-mâché. Watching her work was a moment of pure grace, and I remember feeling immense gratitude for her efforts.

If you have never made homemade tortillas, it’s high time that you do. And once you do, you will never go back to store-bought. (OK, maybe you will sometimes, for the convenience, but after these, those store-bought tortillas will never taste the same again.)

Now, here’s the biggest secret of all – homemade flour tortillas are surprisingly fast and easy to make!

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How to Make Homemade Flour Tortillas

[For ingredient amounts and further instructions, scroll down to the recipe card below.]

Mix together flour, salt, and baking powder. Drizzle in the olive oil and mix with your hands. Mix in a little water at a time with your hands until you have a soft dough. 

Homemade Tortillas - mixing doughThe dough should be soft but not sticky. You can always add more flour if you need to. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes, adding flour as needed if the dough gets sticky.

Form the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic or cover with a towel. Let rest for about 20 minutes. 

After the dough has rested, divide it into 2” balls (about the size of a golf ball).

Flatten a dough ball with your palm and dust each side with flour, then roll into a 5-6” circle. Turn and flip each tortilla a few times as you roll them out. 

Homemade Tortillas - Rolling them out

Heat a dry frying pan or griddle over medium heat. Do not grease or spray with cooking spray. Place a tortilla in the pan and cook until it bubbles a little – around 20-30 seconds. Flip it and cook the other side 20-30 seconds.
 
Place cooked tortillas in a tortilla warmer, or inside a folded kitchen towel. The steam from the hot tortillas softens them.
Homemade Flour Tortillas | The Good Hearted Woman

Want to make an awesome tortilla warmer like the one in the picture above? Check out my Tortilla Warmer DIY tutorial here!

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Homemade flour tortillas are Super Easy to make! Perfect for #TacoTuesday! So much better than store-bought, too! (Olive oil recipe - no lard or shortening)Tweet & Share!

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Homemade Flour Tortillas

With just a simple list of ingredients and a few turns of the rolling pin, you can have warm, fresh, delicious homemade tortillas ready to serve in just over half and hour.
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Resting Time20 mins
Total Time50 mins
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Course: Bread, Dinner or Appetizer, Lunch
Keyword: flatbread
Servings: 24 tortillas
Calories: 94kcal
Author: Renée B. ♥ The Good Hearted Woman

Equipment

  • Rolling Pin

Ingredients

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 1/2 cups warm water not HOT

Instructions

  • Mix together flour, salt and baking powder. Drizzle in the olive oil and mix with your hands.
  • Mix in a little water at a time with your hands until you have a soft dough. (The dough should be soft but not sticky. You can always add more flour if you need to.) Knead the dough for about 5 minutes, adding flour as needed if the dough gets sticky.
  • Form the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic or cover with a towel. Let rest for about 20 minutes. (This allows to gluten to rest.)
  • Divide dough into 2” balls (about the size of a golf ball). Flatten a dough ball with your palm and dust each side with flour, then roll into a 5-6” circle. Turn and flip each tortilla a few times as you roll them out. [See note]
  • Heat a frying pan or griddle over medium heat. Do not grease or spray with cooking spray. Place a tortilla in the pan and cook until it bubbles a little – around 20-30 seconds. Flip it and cook the other side 20-30 seconds.
  • Place cooked tortillas in a tortilla warmer, or inside a folded kitchen towel. The steam from the hot tortillas softens them.

Notes

It takes about the same amount of time to roll out a tortilla as it does for to fry one, so after you roll the first few, it is easy to get into a rhythm of cooking one and rolling the next at the same time.
The cook time listed on this recipe is the collective time it will take to cook all of the tortillas. A single tortilla only takes about 1 minute to fry up.

Nutrition

Serving: 1tortilla | Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 16.2g | Protein: 2.2g | Fat: 2.3g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 149mg | Potassium: 86mg | Fiber: 0.6g | Sugar: 0.1g | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1mg
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My flour tortilla recipe is an adaptation of “Flour Tortillas Diaz.”  I love that it doesn’t call for lard or shortening, and the tortillas it makes are soft and pliable even after they have been sitting for some time.

Homemade Tortillas on Breadboard

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POST UPDATED 2.15.2020 – This post was originally published June 30, 2014.  

Filed Under: 30-Minute Meals, Bread, Cooking Basics, Dairy-free, Munchies, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: Cuban, Mexican

Super Easy Super Bowl Party Menu

February 5 By Renée 8 Comments

Start to finish, this Super Easy Super Bowl Party Menu takes a total of less than 2 hours to prepare. Every item on this Caribbean-inspired menu is full of flavor and easy to make, including my Creamy 15-Minute Caribbean Black Bean Dip!

My Super Easy Super Bowl Party Menu - including Creamy 15-Minute Cuban Black Bean Dip!

This week, Super Bowl party menus and round-ups are popping up around the internet like whack-a-moles at the county fair. Trust me, though – this one is different.

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What makes this Super Bowl Party Menu so different? Because this is not a collection of recipes randomly chosen for their beautiful pictures or festive presentations. No, these are the foods that you will actually find being served up at my house this Sunday. (If the menu looks slim, don’t worry – we are having a pot luck, so there will be plenty of food a’comin’!)

No matter what is on your Super bowl menu, each item served must share a few key characteristics:

    • It is super easy to prepare.
    • It lasts some time on the counter without refrigeration.
    • It tastes fabulous at any temperature.

Cuban Black Bean DIp | The Good Hearted Woman

Cuban-themed Party Menu: 2-Hour Total Prep Time

This year, I decided to focus my menu (very, very loosely) on a Cuban/Caribbean theme. Start to finish, you can make everything on the following menu with less than 2-hours of hands-on preparation time. 

Here’s what I’m serving:

  • Cuban Sandwich Sliders 
  • Tailgate Peach BBQ Sliders
  • Caribbean Mango Salad
  • Cuban Black Bean Dip (Recipe below)
  • Mr. B’s Awesome Homemade Guacamole
  • Homemade Pico de Gallo
  • Corn Chips

In addition to the usual beverages, specialty drinks will include:

  • Homemade Ginger Ale {non-alcoholic}
  • Mr. B’s Whiskey Ginger

If you use canned beans to make this Cuban Black Bean Dip, you can whip up this Cuban-Style Black Bean Dip in just 15 minutes.

Creamy 15-Minute Cuban Black Bean Dip

Cuban Black Bean DIp | The Good Hearted Woman

Creamy 15-Minute Cuban Black Bean Dip

This Creamy 15-Minute Cuban Black Bean is delicious, healthy, and easy to make.
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time5 mins
Mashing5 mins
Total Time15 mins
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Course: Appetizer, Party Food, Snack
Cuisine: Caribbean
Keyword: appetizer, black beans, dip
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 165kcal
Author: Renée ♥ The Good Hearted Woman

Equipment

  • Molcajete (Mexican Mortar and Pestle)

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon unrefined coconut oil
  • 1/2 large onion chopped
  • 1/2 red pepper chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 15 oz black beans drained and rinsed
  • 1/4 cup vegetable broth plus a little extra
  • 1-2 teaspoons lime juice
  • salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

  • In a medium skillet over medium heat, saute onion and red pepper in olive oil until tender; about 4 minutes.
  • Add garlic and saute another minute
  • Add cumin, sugar, vegetable broth, and beans and simmer until most of the liquid has been absorbed. Remove from heat.
  • Stir in lime juice.
  • If you have one, use a molcajete (Mexican mortar & pestle) for this next step. If you don't have one, you can use a medium bowl and a potato masher.
    Simply pour everything into the mortar bowl and use the pestle to mash it all together until it is creamy but still chunky.
    Add a little extra vegetable stock if necessary. 
  • Garnish with sliced limes and cilantro.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 165kcal | Carbohydrates: 28.5g | Protein: 9.5g | Fat: 2.1g | Saturated Fat: 1.4g | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 667mg | Fiber: 6.7g | Sugar: 1.8g | Calcium: 57mg | Iron: 2mg
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Creamy 15-Minute Cuban Black Bean Dip

I call this one “Cat Uncropped #328.” (This is for all of my food blogger friends who have been here, done this.)

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Cuban Black Bean Dip   Super Bowl Party Menu | Cuban Black Bean Salad

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