Now, I will be the first to admit that I am domestically challenged. I don't mind cooking, but I can't follow recipes. I always have had trouble following rules!
Today's crockpot dinner needed some tortillas to go with it. I have been dreaming of the fat, homemade flour tortillas we has in Belize, but being "rule challenged" it never occurred to me to make my own! Until today!
So, dinner is in the crock (I'll post that recipe some other time - gotta keep you coming back ya know?!), and I'm ready to make tortillas!
This recipe made 8 freakishly good tortillas. It is 10am and I only have 3 tortillas left!
1.5 cup flour (whatever kind you have, I used some all purpose multi-grain flour from Costco)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
***2 Tbsp. melted butter (see note below)
1/2-3/4 cup water
Turn a dry skillet on medium. You don't need any spray or a non-stick surface.
Mix all that crap together and slowly add the water. You want a nice dough, not sticky. You don't need a food processor or anything fancy, just a bowl and your hands will work just fine.
Separate into 8 equal-ish pieces (remember, I hate recipe rules. You can make these things as big or as small as you want!)
Roll or pat out dough to desired thickness, drop into the pan and let each side get a little brown.
Grab still-hot tortilla from pan, begin eating it. Cuss because you burnt your mouth. Make next tortilla.
This entire project literally took me 5 minutes and these babies are delish!
Now, since I have eaten them all, I have to make more. I am going to attempt a butter-free version to cut the fat (current recipe has about 3 grams of fat each tortilla). I will report back to let you know the results!
P.S. these cost pennies to make. Not even kidding!
UPDATE!!!! Use nonfat plain yogurt as a substitution for the butter. Works great!
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