Flour Tortillas with 100% Freshly Milled Wheat
These tortillas are soft, easy to fold, and delicious! All made with 100% freshly milled wheat.
Ingredients
- 2 cups soft white wheat berries This is the BERRIES, not the flour amount. You will mill all 2 cups of wheat berries into a fine flour
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup lard can use shortening, but lard is my favorite!
- 1 cup hot water see note below
Instructions
- Mill 2 cups of wheat berries into a typical fine flour
- In a large bowl, combine 2 1/2 cups of freshly milled soft white wheat flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix together.
- Add to flour mixture 1/3 cup of lard. Using a fork, a pastry cutter, your hands, etc, cut in the lard until it resembles a coarse meal type flour.
- Once lard is incorporated, SLOWLY add a bit of hot water to flour/lard mixture until dough starts to hold together and pulls away from the bowl. You may need more or less than 1 cup of hot water, all depends on the wheat you are using.
- Once dough is holding together, it will look rough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and start to knead by hand until dough becomes smooth. This will take about 3-5 minutes.
- Divide dough into 10 balls. Roll balls until smooth and place on a place. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for AT LEAST 30 minutes (see notes below)
- Once dough has rested, heat a comal, frying pan, etc to a high heat on your stove top.
- Lightly dust your work surface with flour, and roll out a ball of dough into a very thin circle. This will take practice! Make sure dough isn't sticking to rolling pin or your work surface. Dust flour as needed.
- You know tortilla is ready to be cooked when it has been rolled out thin and isn't tearing. Once tortilla is rolled out, place in hot pan.
- Wait about 15-20 seconds until you start seeing air bubbles in tortilla. Then flip tortilla over and cook for about another 15-20 seconds (see notes below)
- Once cooked, place in a towel lined basket and cover to keep tortilla warm. This will also soften up the tortilla even more!
- Continue to roll out and cook the rest of the tortillas. Once done, enjoy!
Notes
A few notes about these tortillas:
- You can allow your dough balls to rest even longer than 30 minutes. I find the longer they rest, the more soft they are! I have rested my dough balls up to 2 hours before with no issues. You can also rest in the fridge until you're ready to cook. Just make sure you allow dough balls to come to room temperature before rolling out and cooking.
- If your dough balls keep tearing when rolling the out, allow the dough balls to rest longer covered with plastic wrap.
- If your tortillas are getting too many dark spot while cooking too soon, turn down your heat.
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