🍲 Homemade Corn Tortillas

Mexican · 3 ingredients · 8 steps

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Homemade Corn Tortillas
Homemade Corn Tortillas — photograph by Jon Sullivan, licensed Public domain, from Wikimedia.
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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

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

Method

  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.
Where this came from. Adapted from Homemade Corn Tortillas in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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