Homemade Flour Tortillas

If you can make a pancake, you can make a flour tortilla. They really aren't that hard to do. Plus, they taste much better than the packaged ones and cost so much less!

Ingredients:

• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 5 tbsp. vegetable shortening
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1 cup very warm water

Directions:

Add the vegetable shortening to the flour/salt mixture and mix together with your hands.

Add the warm water to the mixture and blend with fork until dough forms.

 Add dough to floured surface and form into a log shape.

 Break up the log into 10 pieces and roll into a ball. Place plastic wrap over the dough balls and let sit for 20 minutes.

Roll out each ball into a very thin circle. The first time I made these I didn't roll them out paper thin and the tortillas ended up turning out as thick as pita bread.  Make sure you roll them out thin! Go ahead a warm up your iron skillet to medium-high while you roll these out.

 Place the tortilla on a warmed iron skillet and let sit for about 45 seconds on each side. You will know when to flip the tortilla when it starts to bubble (just like how you make pancakes!). I usually stack the finished tortillas and cover them with a damp paper towel to keep them from drying. 

And that's it! I have used these to make tacos, enchiladas  grilled cheeseburger wraps and to just eat plain. The more you make them the easier it will get.