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Can you make authentic flour tortillas without lard? Depends on who you ask, and which region of Mexico you’re thinking about. And then again, Texan tortillas are a whole other story.
Texas-style flour tortillas are thick, tender, and chewy. Blogger Lisa Fain over at Homesick Texan says a good Texas-style tortilla can now be found at Whole Foods, but that it took her years of searching to find a great recipe for making them homemade. Her source? The Border Cookbook by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison. Here’s the recipe that left the Homesick Texan with a silly grin plastered on her face.
Texas Flour Tortillas (adapted from The Border Cookbook by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison)
Ingredients
2 cups of all-purpose flour (can make them whole wheat by substituting one cup of whole-wheat flour for white flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
3/4 cups of warm milk
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Method
- Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and oil.
- Slowly add warm milk.
- Stir until a loose, sticky ball forms.
- Knead for two minutes on a floured surface. Dough should be firm and soft.
- Place dough in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap for 20 minutes.
- After the dough has rested, break off eight sections and roll them into balls in your hands, place on a plate (make sure they aren’t touching) and then cover balls with damp cloth or plastic wrap for 10 minutes. (It’s very important to let the dough rest, otherwise it will be like elastic and won’t roll out to a proper thickness and shape.)
- After dough has rested, one at a time place a dough ball on a floured surface, pat it out into a four-inch circle, and then roll with a rolling pin from the center until it’s thin and about 8 inches in diameter. (If you roll out pie crusts you’ll have no problem with this.) Don’t overwork the dough, or it’ll be stiff. Keep rolled-out tortillas covered until ready to cook.
- In a dry iron skillet or comal heated on high, cook the tortilla about thirty seconds on each side. It should start to puff a bit when it’s done.
- Keep cooked tortillas covered wrapped in a napkin until ready to eat.
- Can be reheated in a dry iron skillet, over your gas-burner flame, or in the oven wrapped in foil.
- While you probably won’t have any leftovers, you can store in the fridge tightly wrapped in foil or plastic for a day or so.
Makes 8 tortillas.
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