Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, flour tortillas/tortillas de harina. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Although must cooks will omit the baking. Mix the flour and pork lard with your fingers until the mixture is the texture of coarse sand. Then add the salt with the hot (but not scalding) water and knead well.

Flour Tortillas/Tortillas de Harina is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Flour Tortillas/Tortillas de Harina is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook flour tortillas/tortillas de harina using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Flour Tortillas/Tortillas de Harina:

1. Prepare 6 cup All Purpose Flour
2. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Salt
3. Take 9 heaping tsp Lard or Shortening
4. Get 2 cup Hot Water
5. Get 2 tsp Baking Powder

How to Make Mexican Flour Tortillas, Tortillas de Harina de Castilla. Next add the oil and with your hands mix in the oil with the flour really good. Now take the hot water and pour in a little. You actually don't want to use a tortilla press for flour tortillas.

Steps to make Flour Tortillas/Tortillas de Harina:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients
2. Add the lard and mix well into the flour
3. Starting the water about a half cup at a time, once added begin to mix by hand
4. Once all water is added begin to work and knead the dough: add water if to dry, add flour if too sticky
5. Work for about 7 min or until not sticky and all dough has come off your hands, let dough rest 10 min.
6. Start heating flat griddle or "comal" for cooking tortillas
7. Make "testales" or little balls about the size of a tangerine: make bigger balls for bigger tortillas
8. Roll out flat, about size of a dinner plate and place on heat, flip when u start to see bubbles.
9. Once both sides have received heat, gently press on tortillas with rolled up kitchen towel until slightly browned. careful with steam
10. Wrap cooked tortillas in kitchen towel…store wrapped in towel in plastic bag.

You'll get much better results using a rolling pin. When you start putting pressure on the tortilla, you kind of strain the gluten. Whisk the flour, salt, and baking powder together in a mixing bowl. Mix in the lard with your fingers until the flour resembles cornmeal. Add the water and mix until the dough comes together; place on a lightly floured surface and knead a few minutes until smooth and elastic.

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