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Home » Surprise Your Friends and Relatives for the Holidays ~ Give the Gift of Healthy Homemade Flour Tortillas!

Surprise Your Friends and Relatives for the Holidays ~ Give the Gift of Healthy Homemade Flour Tortillas!

When all the neighbors have had enough fudge to last a lifetime, they will cheer when you knock on the door with this edible gift: healthy tortillas. Well, at least healthy-er. No lard – canola oil is a much more enlightened fat.

Flour tortillas are simple to make, and unless you are lucky enough to live near the border where there are taco stands and small businesses selling tortillas, these taste much fresher than store bought.

Unlike making pastry, you actually WANT the gluten to be developed and work in your favor, so you do everything the opposite of how you would make a pastry crust. You use HOT water. You work the dough a lot. The strechy-ness is what holds the tortilla together, so gluten is your friend.

The dough takes just minutes to stir together and then you let it rest. Then, rolling and cooking takes just a few more minutes.

You can whip up a dozen or two for the neighbors in no time. Then, just sit back and wait for the cheers!

— posted by Donna

Other bloggers do flour tortillas:
Low Fat Flour Tortillas, Amanda’s Cooking
Homemade Tortillas, Confections of a Foodie Bride
DIY Flour Tortillas, Annie’s Eats
 Almost Anna’s Flour Tortillas, My Wooden Spoon

HEALTHY FLOUR TORTILLAS

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 cup canola oil
1 cup very hot water

Stir all ingredients together. Cover and let rest 30 minutes.

Separate dough into 12 small balls. Roll out dough into 1/8 – inch thickness.

Cook on hot griddle until lightly browned on both sides.

Filed Under: Party Food and Snacks Tagged With: flour tortilla recipe, homemade tortillas

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  1. Barbara @ Barbara Bakes

    December 19, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Such a fun idea. I made tortillas but probably didn’t work them enough. You’ll have to give me a lesson.

    Reply
    • Donna

      December 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm

      I like the idea of a tortillas making day! Feliz Navidad to YOU!

      Reply
  2. SeattleDee

    December 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    This idea is a proven winner, who wouldn’t love homemade tortillas? I still grin at a friend’s request that I bring her as many commercial corn tortillas as my suitcase would hold when I visited her in Germany. (100+ survived the flight))

    A recent post from Donna C at Cookistry has a non-traditional but interesting recipe for a mixed corn and flour tortilla made with yeast.
    https://cookistry.blogspot.com/2011/12/not-your-abuelitas-tortillas.html

    Reply
    • Donna

      December 19, 2011 at 4:47 pm

      Seattle Dee – I love the idea of a mixed tortilla! MUST try this in 2012!

      Reply
  3. Deborah

    December 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    I have always wanted to try making tortillas. And giving them as a gift is such a great idea!!

    Reply
  4. Choc Chip Uru

    January 2, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    These look so tasty – I can’t believe they are homemade!
    A wonderful recipe 🙂

    Reply

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Sandy is a former elementary educator whose love for cooking has gone out of control. She has completed a degree in culinary arts and is now a food writer, photographer, cookbook author and co-creator of the popular website Everyday Southwest. Read More…

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