Homemade Tortilla Recipe

Learn how to make homemade flour tortillas.

Homemade Tortilla Recipe

Ingredients

All purpose flour / Maida flour- 2 cups

Cooking soda- 1/2 tsp

Butter or Olive Oil or Lard- 4 tbsp

Hot water- 1 cup

Salt to taste

Tortilla Recipe

Method

In a large bowl add flour, cooking soda, required salt and butter, mix well with your fingers until it resembles bread crumbs. Add hot water to the flour little by little and knead flour for 10 mins until a smooth and soft dough is formed. Set aside the tortilla dough for 5 mins. Divide dough into equal lemon sized balls, roll out each dough into thin circle using roller pin.

Heat a griddle or tawa, lay each of prepared rolled dough on the hot tawa and cook on both sides until light brown spots appears on tortillas.( Cook tortillas on griddle without any oil or butter). Wrap cooked tortillas with a cloth or keep it in tortilla warmer.

Flour Tortillas