Flour Tortillas are a staple at our house- they get eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you look at the ingredient list on the back of most store-bought tortilla packages you will see quite a long list of not-so-good things.
I have been making homemade flour tortillas for years now and they aren’t as hard as you might think. And on the days that I am running short on a time and end up at the grocery store, a quick look at the package will get me right back in the homemade tortilla habit.
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I started out with a very simple recipe, but over time I have experimented and finally landed on a favorite version. Using milk, butter and a bit of honey make these flour tortillas soft and flavorful.
How to Make Flour Tortillas
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
dash salt
2 T butter
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp-1 T honey
*Note: If you are want to make these more economical, you can substitute water for the milk. You can also omit the honey and use oil instead of butter. Milk, butter and honey make the tortillas a bit softer, but they can be substituted if you are out of ingredients or trying to conserve things like milk and butter.
How to Make Flour Tortillas:
Combine the milk,honey and butter and heat until the butter is almost melted.
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
Turn on your mixer using the dough hook attachment* and gradually add the milk mixture to your dry ingredients.
Allow it to mix until the dough has come together and pulls away from the bowl. You may have to add additional liquid or flour depending on the humidity of your house.
Allow the dough to rest in a covered bowl for 20 minutes
Divide the dough into approximately 12 balls and allow to rest, covered, for 10 minutes.
Preheat a skillet on medium heat.
On a floured surface, roll** one of your balls of dough into a circle 6-8 inches in diameter, making sure to turn the dough for even rolling and to prevent sticking.
Place the rolled dough in your skillet and allow to cook about 1 minute on each side.
While the first tortilla is cooking, roll your next tortilla, and continue this way until all are rolled and cooked.
Place finished tortillas under a towel while the rest are being made.
* If you do not have an electric mixer, add the milk a little at a time, stirring with a wooden spoon after each addition. Knead with your hands for a few minutes once the dough has come together.
**You can also use a tortilla press to press the dough. Some presses do both the pressing and cooking.
This flour tortilla recipe doubles or triples well. I make triple batches often to save in the freezer.
This recipe is also adaptable to different types of flours, and if you find yourself low on milk, you can use mostly (or all) water for the liquid.
Once you get the hang of the rolling and cooking process, it goes pretty quickly and you should be able do a batch of 12 in less than 15 minutes.
A couple of years ago, I bought the CucinaPro 1443 Flatbread and Tortilla Maker
* which presses and cooks the tortillas. I would highly recommend it. I am not sure it saves me time, but it makes the process much simpler- especially when I get interrupted numerous times!
Have you ever made tortillas at home? If not, give it a try! Like most things, the homemade version is so much better than the store-bought alternative!
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Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- dash salt
- 2 T butter
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tsp to 1T of honey
Instructions
Combine the milk,honey and butter and heat until the butter is almost melted.
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
Turn on your mixer using the dough hook attachment* and gradually add the milk mixture to your dry ingredients.
Allow it to mix until the dough has come together and pulls away from the bowl. You may have to add additional liquid or flour depending on the humidity of your house.
Allow the dough to rest in a covered bowl for 20 minutes
Divide the dough into approximately 12 balls and allow to rest, covered, for 10 minutes.
Preheat a skillet on medium heat.
On a floured surface, roll** one of your balls of dough into a circle 6-8 inches in diameter, making sure to turn the dough for even rolling and to prevent sticking.
Place the rolled dough in your skillet and allow to cook about 1 minute on each side.
While the first tortilla is cooking, roll your next tortilla, and continue this way until all are rolled and cooked.
Place finished tortillas under a towel while the rest are being made.
* if you do not have an electric mixer, add the milk a little at a time, stirring with a wooden spoon after each addition. Knead with your hands for a few minutes once the dough has come together.
**You can also use a tortilla press to press the dough. Some presses do both the pressing and cooking.
It has been a while, but I like making tortillas too. I am going to pin your recipe and give it a shot. Thanks for sharing.
I am definitely making these. We use tortillas for everything too, and I hate all the garbage in the store bought ones. Thank you so much! Pinning. :)
Thank you! I hope you will enjoy them!
God gracious, i have never eaten Tortilla here in Indonesia for honest. I ate once in New Zealand. I will pin it to get the non gluten flour for my kids as they are gluten free. Thank you very much. I just wandered around and love your blog a lot. Nice to see you
Oh, YUM! We love tortillas, but have never made our own. We ill definitely be giving this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing… I PINNED this. :)
~Lorelai
Life With Lorleai
Love this idea, I am sure it is cheaper as well as better for you! Thanks for sharing :)
They are much cheaper and no long list of unreadable ingredients!
My husband and I will definitely enjoy making this together for the grandchildren.
We love homemade tortillas, but I always struggled with them being to crispy and not roll well in to a tortilla roll, till I learned that you do NOT grease the pan with oil, that makes them crispy.
Very true! Make sure to cook on a non-stick surface and use flour to reduce the stickiness of the dough.
I am going to try this tonight – thanks for the recipe!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy them!
I have never made homemade tortillas, but I use corn tortillas a lot because I’m gluten-free! You don’t happen to have a gluten-free tortilla recipe, do ya? :)
I don’t have a gluten free recipe, but I would think that any gluten-free “all-purpose” flour would work. These are very forgiving, once I made Honey Oatmeal Yeast Bread and forgot the yeast. They made wonderful tortillas!
I always wondered how you made these! Cool! Ps. you blog header is adorable! Did you do it yourself? Mine is awful!
Thank you!Yes, I did the header myself :)
Thanks for sharing this recipe. What do you use for storing them in the freezer (i.e. freezer bag, plastic storage container, etc.)?
I just put them in a gallon sized freezer bag. You do want to make sure they are cooled and pull each apart before freezing, I have forgotten to do that and we had to chisel them apart! :)
What an easy recipe! I would love to make these sometime soon, your blog is awesome too :)
We eat a lot of tortillas! I’ll give your recipe a try. The last time I made tortillas by hand, they were good, but a little too thick I think. Thanks for info! I hope you’ll stop by Stable Road Homestead for a visit :)
Fabulous- now I don’t have to depend on the store bought ones. Thank you.
Yum! I love flour tortillas. I made them once years ago but now I just buy them. But homemade is better I will have to give this recipe a try. Pinning and sharing! Thanks for sharing!
Featuring this fab recipe this week on The Clever Chicks Blog Hop! Thanks for sharing and I hope you’ll join us again tomorrow!
Cheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
I’ll have to try this…I found organic ones that I like through our buying club, but the price is higher than I like to pay! Thanks so much for sharing on The Creative Home & Garden Hop! I can’t wait to see what you share today :)
We love them and eat them in place of bread.
Your homemade Tortillas look beautiful and they would taste so good! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Found your blog on the Chicken Chicks blog :) My hubby loves tortillas and up until now, I’ve used store bought (with a careful eye on ingredients). We’re trying to make more things from scratch these days, so I’ll have to give your recipe a try.
Thank you for sharing this at the HomeAcre Hop! I hope you’ll join us again this Thursday.
Making these as I type … smell delicious!!! Can’t wait to try them out!!
I hope you enjoyed them!
Maybe someone already asked, but how many does this recipe yield? Say for medium sized tortillas?
This recipe makes about a dozen (step 6: divide into 12 balls) More if you do a smaller size and less if you want large ones.
Thank you for sharing. My mom and I really want to try this recipe. Out of curiosity how long do your tortillas last? Do you refrigerate?
We have a large family, so they get eaten pretty quickly. We keep any uneaten ones in the freezer where they could keep quite awhile.