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Homemade Corn Tortillas

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Bread, Mexican, Baked, Fried

Tags: medium difficulty, mexican, pan fried, recipes for flatbread, recipes using corn flour, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, tex-mex

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AHomemade_Corn_Tortillas)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AHomemade%20Corn%20Tortillas&oldid=4495057

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 2 cups masa (masa harina, masa lista)
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, stir together the masa and salt.
  2. Add the water, and mix together well to form a dough.
  3. Turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead for 5 minutes.
  4. Divide the dough into ¼ cup (3 oz / 90 g) portions, and form them into balls.
  5. Roll each ball into a flat round about 6 inches (10 cm) in diameter and ⅛ inches (0.25 cm) thick.
  6. Heat a large heavy skillet over medium high heat.
  7. Place the tortillas one at a time into the dry hot skillet; cook until brown on one side, then turn and brown the other side.
  8. Remove from the skillet and keep warm in cloth towel.