Home Made Tortilla Wraps

MachOne4

Does anyone have a good recipe for homemade tortilla wraps?

Any I have followed up to now haven't turned out very well.
I'm using just three ingredients - flour, water, and salt.

But the dough is very sticky. And it's very hard to roll.
It gets stuck to my hands and rolling pin.

I dust it with extra flour to try and stop it sticking, but then end up using way too much flour. More than the recipe called for.

Anyone got any tips???

mtaratoot

Making tortillas by hand is an art. Is it worth it? If you've ever had a fresh tortilla, you're likely to say yes.

I suggest making corn tortillas not wheat flour. Get masa harina. Masa is nixtamalized corn. Invest in a tortilla press, and you'll be rewarded with good tortillas.

If you make wheat flour tortillas, try to weigh the flour (and water) instead of measure. Take notes each time, and when you figure out the proportions that work, put those notes somewhere you'll remember. I think if you let the dough rest before rolling you might have better luck. You might even add part of the water and let the flour hydrate before adding the rest of the water and even then still let it rest. Working with dough can be challenging. Fresh bread is worth it.

neanderthin

mtaratoot wrote: »

Making tortillas by hand is an art. Is it worth it? If you've ever had a fresh tortilla, you're likely to say yes.

I suggest making corn tortillas not wheat flour. Get masa harina. Masa is nixtamalized corn. Invest in a tortilla press, and you'll be rewarded with good tortillas.

If you make wheat flour tortillas, try to weigh the flour (and water) instead of measure. Take notes each time, and when you figure out the proportions that work, put those notes somewhere you'll remember. I think if you let the dough rest before rolling you might have better luck. You might even add part of the water and let the flour hydrate before adding the rest of the water and even then still let it rest. Working with dough can be challenging. Fresh bread is worth it.

This. All of this.

perryc05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjHXyilalg&list=LL&index=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Drb-YkWg8&list=LL&index=19

Hobartlemagne

You can actually make tortillas with biscuit dough, if you want a shortcut.

acpgee

I agree with @mtaratoot and find homemade corn tortillas made with masa harina easier. Also more worth the effort.

I use the Diane Kennedy recipe for flour tortillas which includes fat in the dough which makes it easier to handle. Her ingredients are 450g bread flour, 115g vegetable shortening, 1 tsp salt, 250ml warm water.

You will make your life easier if you buy a tortilla press. I spent maybe $20 on amazon for a good cast iron one. These are sturdier than plastic and take less room to store than the traditional wooden ones. It takes literally no room in the cupboard because if you open out the handle you can just stack it with your frying pans. I also use the tortilla press for making Chinese dumplings.

acpgee

If you are not familiar with Diane Kennedy, she wrote the first authorative and authentic Mexican cookbooks for Americans. Her status is similar to Julia Child for French cooking in the US.

Hobartlemagne

Rick Bayless wrote some amazingly comprehensive recipes, travelling each state in Mexico to research. He has a bunch of good cooking demonstration videos on youtube.

Corina1143

Let your dough set a while(to give the flour time to hydrate). I also find the dough sticks together better with just a very small amount of oil (1/2 to 1 tsp per cup of flour?)
Corn tortillas are great, but flour are so, so good!

perryc05

I tend to use Masa Harina Flour (limed corn flour) for tortilla but this looks like a good recipe for a flour tortilla here. Note they use hot water:

https://ohsweetbasil.com/3-secrets-for-authentic-homemade-flour-tortillas/

Hobartlemagne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JBHQS-DEbI&pp=ygUWcmljayBiYXlsZXNzIHRvcnRpbGxhcw%3D%3D
I learned from Rick Bayless' video here