How to Make Flour Tortillas (with Limited Resources)
How to Make Flour Tortillas from Scratch
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 4 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups plain flour
- 2 Tbsp starch powder ((corn starch or potato starch))
- 1 tsp Fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp plain flour (Anti stick purpose)
Instructions
- 1
Sieve the flour, salt and starch powder.Add the water and olive oil. Kneed the dough. (The recipe I found recommend to leave it like that for about 1 hour in the fridge, but I didn’t have much time to spare, so I just kept going to next step without having any break.) Divide the dough into 4 pieces.
- 2
Spread the plain flour (2 Tbsp) on the rolling board. One dough at a time, roll the dough lightly on the board into a ball shape.
- 3
Roll one piece of dough with a rolling pin to flatten and make a thin round shape. (Repeat this for the rest of the dough.)
- 4
Preheat a skillet / pan for 10 seconds. (No cooking oil is used)
- 5
Place one tortilla sheet and cook it for 20 – 30 seconds. Turn it over and cook the other side for 20-30 seconds. Remove from the heat.
- 6
Serve.