Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe

Learn how to make flour tortillas with just 5 ingredients in 30 minutes. These soft and fresh homemade tortillas make all the difference in recipes for tacos, quesadillas, burritos, and more.

👥 10 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 50 min⏳ Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 10 min👤 Natasha Kravchuk📖 natashaskitchen

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🥘 Ingredients

Check off ingredients as you prepare them:

🍳 Cookware

●bowl
●mixing bowl
●whisk
●baking sheet
●pan

📝 Preparation Steps

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder

baking powder1 tsp

Add softened butter and work it into the flour with your hands until you have a sandy/ fine crumb mixture.

While mixing with your hands, pour hot water into the dough a little at a time (and carefully since it’s hot). Drizzle in some water then mix and drizzle again and add more water if needed to form a sticky dough ball that pulls away from the edges of the bowl, then transfer the dough to a clean countertop. Knead for ⏱️ 5 minutes until soft, elastic, and smooth (The dough will get less sticky as you knead).

hot water (or as needed to form dough)1 cup

Lightly oil a baking sheet and a sheet of plastic wrap. Pinch off balls of dough (about golf-ball size) and roll each into a ball over your counter. Place dough balls on the oiled baking sheet and cover with oiled plastic wrap and rest at room temperature for ⏱️ 20-30 minutes.

Preheat a large 12” non-stick Hexclad non-stick pan (or comal if you have one) over medium heat until it’s super hot (500 ̊F on an infrared thermometer).

Lightly flour a work surface. Place one dough ball over the surface, dust it with flour and lightly flatten it with your fingers. Roll the tortilla once, rotate the dough, roll again, then rotate again. Repeat until the dough is about halfway rolled out, then roll it up and down, rotate, and roll it up and down again. As it gets larger, flip the dough over to prevent the edges from curling and continue rolling. Continue until you have about a super thin 10” diameter round, or until your dough begins to look see-through.

Cook on the hot pan for about ⏱️ 20-30 seconds per side until you get some bubbling on top and blistering/golden browning on the bottom then flip and saute for another ⏱️ 20 seconds. Stack warm tortillas wrapped in a dry kitchen towel. Once the tortillas are cool, transfer them to a zip-top bag to keep them from drying out.

Nutrition Facts

calories

187 kcal

fat Content

6 g

serving Size

1 serving

fiber Content

1 g

sugar Content

0.1 g

sodium Content

352 mg

protein Content

4 g

trans Fat Content

0.2 g

cholesterol Content

15 mg

carbohydrate Content

29 g

saturated Fat Content

4 g

unsaturated Fat Content

2.4 g

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