How to make Tortillas de Harina/Flour (for beginners)

I hope you enjoyed my video on how to make flour tortillas. I hope you can make these tortillas to share with your family. If you don't succeed, always try again. If you enjoyed the video give me a thumbs up, and if you have made the recipe let me know in the comments below. You can also tag me on Instagram @_heidijennifer. I'm so happy to be sharing some of my favorite recipes with you. Stay tuned there will be more to come, I will be uploading a new video every week.

Ingredients
• 2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour plus extra to form tortillas.
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 Cup shortening or Lard
• 1 cup hot water

Preparing time: 10- 20 minutes
Resting Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Total: 50-60mins

Instructions
• In a large bowl, place the flour, baking powder, salt, and mix.

• With the help your hands, incorporate the shortening or lard.

• Slowly add the hot water a little at the time until the dough holds together. Do not add all the water at once.

• Turn dough onto a work surface, and knead for a couple of minutes until it is smooth.

• I covered in plastic wrap to set to rest for about 30 minutes.

• Divide the dough into 10-12 pieces rolling every piece on your work surface with the palm of your hand to form a little disk.

• Turn on stove and place an griddle/comal over medium/high heat.

• Grab your Rolling Pin to start forming the tortillas on a lightly floured surface. If you add too much flour to the surface your tortillas will be dry
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• To form the tortillas place the “” (ball of dough)onto the working area and press slightly with your hand, set the rolling pin at the center of the “l” and press forward without making it to the edge and then press backward towards yourself stopping before the edge. Turn the tortilla 45 degrees (like a half turn) and repeat pressing forward and then towards you. Flip the tortilla and repeat the same process until you have a thin disk of about 10 inches. If you are new to rolling tortillas, be patient, it takes a little practice.

• Now, place the tortilla on your already hot comal. This step is a really quick one: be careful with your timing. a) During the first 10 to 20 seconds, the tortilla starts forming air bubbles and light brown spots will show at the bottom side of the tortilla, b) turn the tortilla, and during the next 20 seconds, more air bubbles will continue to form, I press lightly with a kitchen cloth to apply pressure to spots where is isn't cooking as fast.. c) turn again; at this time the tortilla will puff up. This last step will take about 10 seconds. Remove the tortilla and wrap with a kitchen towel. Keep making the rest of the tortillas.


Notes
Add the water little by little to form the dough
*Your comal should be hot enough so that when cooking the tortillas the spots are light brown; if they are dark brown too soon then the heat is too high, and if the tortillas take longer to cook then the heat is too low.
* To reheat the tortillas, place them in a hot comal and warm them the same way you cook them, turning twice. The air bubbles will form again but not as big as when they were just cooking.

Tortilla and rolling pin vector art made by me, Heidi Torres