Hi everyone! I wanted to share a yummy recipe with you today, they’re my homemade tortillas. I actually have 2 recipes to share, one is for white flour tortillas, and the other is for whole wheat tor tortillas. Either way my kids devour these! They eat them as snacks all by themselves, with peanut butter and jelly, cheese, or with salsa. Not only are they better for you than store bought tortillas, but they’re less expensive and sooooooo good! Ingredients: 3 1/2 C. all purpose flour (Can use all purpose white flour or whole wheat flour, or you can even do half and half.) 2 teaspoons salt 3/4 C. Vegetable Shortening (Or Lard) Yes, I know it’s awful but Lard is really the key to good flour tortillas. Sorry. You can substitute with 1/2 c olive oil, but really they are much denser, and not as good.) 1 cups lukewarm water Optional: I highly recommend a Tortilla Maker for this. Rolling them out by hand is difficult and the tortillas don’t get as thin … [Read more...]
