Homemade Tortillas

I use my mixer to make the dough, but you can make it by hand easily enough. Just mix the dry ingredients together, stir in the wet, and knead for five minutes till the dough is nice and smooth. It should still be fairly soft, but not sticky. Pinch off balls of dough about the size of golf balls for taco sized tortillas and roll them into smooth balls. Let them sit, covered, for at least half an hour, otherwise they will be too hard to roll out, and no longer than an hour, else they dry out too much. Now for the cooking. Heat a nice cast iron skillet till it’s quite hot, but not smoking. The tortillas are supposed to cook for just a minute on each side, so you’ll have to adjust the temperature accordingly. Roll the dough balls into roundish tortillas on the counter. It goes pretty quickly, so you can roll and cook at the same time, which is preferable to rolling them all out first as the uncooked tortillas tend to stick together. When it’s flattish and roundish, peel it up carefully and flop it onto the hot pan. Cook it for about a minute. When the bottom side is done, the top side will look dry and you will be able to see large air bubbles from underneath. When you flip it, there should be little flecks of brown, but no burned spots. Cook it for another minute on the other side and then remove it to a warm, towel-lined plate or bowl for safe keeping till serving time. Consider stocking up on rolling pins so the whole family can help. Also, these freeze great, so it saves a lot of time later to make double, triple, and even quadruple batches.