Recipe: Perfect Tender flour tortilla

Tender flour tortilla. Lard-laden flour tortillas that are thin, tender, and flavorful. Thin and semi-translucent thanks to plenty to lard, these flour tortillas are light and tender, with a mild yet delicious flavor. Homemade flour tortillas are so easy to make!

Soft, warm, tender, as comforting as a billowy down quilt on a cold winters day. Homemade Flour Tortillas - soft and tender flour tortillas are just a few simple ingredients, and so easy to make at home. This tender tasty Homemade tortilla recipe is made from scratch. You can have Tender flour tortilla using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tender flour tortilla

1. It's of dry ingredients.
2. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
3. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of salt.
4. It's 4 cup of all-purpose flour.
5. It's 2/3 cup of vegetable shortening.
6. You need 1 cup of hot water.

Our homemade flour tortillas are made from butter, salt, flour and a bit of baking powder. This mix of ingredients makes a wonderfully. Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe Notes: Tortilla dough should be soft and slightly sticky, but not wet. The baking powder helps keep these tortillas soft and tender.

Tender flour tortilla step by step

1. Combine dry ingredients first.
2. Put the shortening in and mix with your hands till it turns into a cornmeal texture.
3. slowly add hot water into the dry ingredients and mix with wooden spoon. Becareful. Not to burn yourself and when it is cool enough to touch knead it till it becomes a soft ball of dough..
4. Let it sit in a bowl and cover with a wet towel for 30 minutes . then roll into golf sized balls then let sit an additional 10 minutes.
5. Now sprinkle flour on your counter and use as much as you need to roll it out. and flatten the ball with. Your hands and then start rolling with a rolling pin until you get it pretty thin.
6. In a comal (or just a medium pan) on medium heat put the stretched dough until it bubbles and then turn till it's cooked.
7. Stack tortillas and then store in a plastic bag so they remain soft.

I prefer my homemade flour tortillas with shortening. I think the oil makes for the prettiest looking These homemade flour tortillas have taken our weekly taco night to a new level! Due to the gluten in flour, flour tortillas are most commonly made by rolling out the dough with a rolling pin. Cake flour is lower in gluten and produces a very tender, flaky tortilla. They're so soft, easy to make, and can be used for burritos, tacos, quesadillas, however you like!!.

Share this post