>> Hilah: Hey, I’m Hilah.
Today I’m going to make tortillas.
Now you all know that I love tacos but you cannot have a good taco without a good tortilla
and a good tortilla is a homemade tortilla.
So I’m going to show you how to do it.
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[How To Make Tortillas]
>> Hilah: OK.
Oww!
Damn it.
OK!
Let’s talk tortillas.
Let’s get serious about it.
There are only five ingredients.
There’s flour and baking powder and salt and oil and milk.
So let’s start with the flour.
Two cups of all-purpose flour.
I use my finger when I measure things like so.
And number two.
All right.
This is our second cup of flour.
OK.
Done.
Almost.
One and a half teaspoons of baking powder.
Flour tortillas are pretty new by the way because I guess the Europeans just brought
flour over like 500 years ago or something so by ancient human standards, flour tortillas
are New Kids on the Block so to speak.
All right.
A little salt and mix it up.
OK, now I’m adding milk and oil.
OK.
Mix it up.
Okey doke.
That is it for the easy part.
Now I’m going to knead it for two minutes.
That means check your watch and do it for a few minutes or count to 120 Mississippis.
Learned that trick in kindergarten.
All right.
So you throw a little flour down and you probably need to add flour as you go and you pull out
your little squishy ball.
This is all kneading is, is folding and squishing.
Almost done.
Gosh, really hard work being a homemaker and making tortillas.
OK, just kidding.
All right.
This is good.
It’s soft and pliable and fun.
I’m going to put it in this bowl and I’m going to cover it with a damp towel and set
it aside to rest for 20 or 30 minutes.
I’m going to go for 30.
OK, compadres.
We have now reached the second leg of our tortilla journey.
I’m going to take this dough.
I’m going to separate it into evenly-sized balls.
Probably get like 10 out of this little mass here.
Maybe 12 if you want to be chancy with it.
It’s really fun.
It feels like Play-Doh.
Yay!
How to make one shaped like an H. OK.
So just roll each one into a little – crappy little ball there and you put them on a plate
and then we’re going to let them rest for another 10 minutes, which will give you plenty
of time to go take like five tequila shots or wash this bowl, which is probably what
I will do.
OK.
Set those aside for 10 minutes.
See you later.
So I’ve been waiting patiently and now I’m ready to roll my little balls out into little
discs and this is really fun.
OK.
So get some flour on your board or your counter and your rolling pin, doing those jobbies
[0:04:40] [Phonetic], one of those jobbies [Phonetic].
OK.
On your little balls, flatten it out.
This is totally fun.
I don’t know why people don’t do this everyday.
I guess some people probably do.
OK.
Let me just start rolling it out and then start in the middle and kind of press out
to the sides until it’s about the size of what a tortilla should be.
OK.
Cool.
Let me set that one aside.
OK.
I got my little tortilla babies all rolled out and I have a cast iron skillet heating
up over high for a couple of minutes to get it super, duper hot.
No oil or anything, just a dry skillet and I’m going to throw one of these in and let
it sit there for a couple of minutes.
And it will start to puff up and then I will flip it and then let it cook on that side
and then we will have hot, fresh tortillas.
So it’s getting really, really puffed up.
It’s pretty cool.
I’m going to take a little gander.
That looks great.
And flip it and if there’s a big old air bubble, just kind of pop it but look out for
the steam because it’s super, super hot, super fudging hot.
And let it go for a couple of minutes on that side and it should have some little crispy
brown, golden toasty stuff on it and that my friends is a tortilla and there you have
it, internet people, homemade tortillas.
Hmm, so much better than anything you can buy in a store including a big screen TV.
All right.
That’s it for tortillas.
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All right.
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