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Fill delicious tortillas with your favorite fixings for an easy meal.
12 tortillas
SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 to 6 tablespoons lard, cold and coarsely chopped
- 1-1/4 cups warm water
Directions
- In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Using pastry blender, cut in lard until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add warm water, a little at a time, adding just enough to form dough that is soft and no longer sticky (do not use hot water).
- Turn dough out onto floured board, and knead until soft and pliable, 2 to 3 minutes. Divide dough evenly into 12 portions the size of golf balls. Cover with linen towel, and let dough rest for at least 10 minutes.
- Dust each ball with a little additional flour, and roll out with rolling pin or “palote,” as thinly as possible without tearing, 1/16 inch or thinner.
- Heat griddle, comal, or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. (Do not use a very hot griddle or the tortillas will cook too quickly.)
- One at a time, lay tortilla on hot griddle. Let brown for a few seconds on one side, and then turn over and brown other side. Each side should be nicely speckled.
- Place cooked tortillas on towel or in tortilla warmer to keep warm while you cook the remaining tortillas.
If you’ve never looked at the ingredients list on a package of store-bought tortillas, you should. Forgo the additives and make your own — authentically prepared with lard — from pure ingredients. Serve warm with butter and honey for a snack, or with fixings for burritos or wraps for a meal.
FOR MORE, SEE HOMEMADE BISCUITS AND MORE USING LARD
