December 28, 2010: Tortillas

his arepas alongside the incorrect sort of masa harina, pointed out that he'd bought the correct sort of masa harina for tortillas!  So nosotros flipped to the homemade soft corn tortillas recipe inwards Viva Vegan together with had a go.  Making the dough couldn't live on easier - stir together masa harina, tabular array salt together with H2O - but rolling together with frying the tortillas caused to a greater extent than or less initial frustration.  Sandwiching a dough blob betwixt 2 sheets of baking paper, it wasn't also hard to whorl a reasonably round down tortilla.  The challenge was prising it off the newspaper together with landing it, unwrinkled, inwards the hot frypan.  I botched together with cursed over quite a few dough balls, scraping them off the pan together with re-rolling (and re-re-rolling) them.

Eventually I figured out that I was belike trying to whorl my tortillas far also thinly together with I had to a greater extent than success when I allowed them to live on a twain of corporation millimetres thick.  They didn't await also fancy but they were mighty satisfying to swallow - naught similar the wheat-based ones that Old El Paso churns out, together with maybe fifty-fifty improve than the near-authentic ones I've eaten at a few local restaurants.  But that mightiness but live on the pride talking.

After I posted a picayune tortilla-rolling grumble on twitter, nerdfish offered me this advice inside seconds:

1. "you tin piece of job a heavy frypan to press them. Apparently a ziploc pocketbook cutting into squares > baking newspaper for pressing."
2. "you also desire to knead the dough for a few turns - I respect it makes it less prone to tearing. I also advocate tenting..."
3. "... freshly cooked tortillas inwards foil, it softens them nicely."
4. "I respect the recipe on the dorsum of the pocketbook is waaay to damp for tortillas. And pressing makes all the difference!"

Lady knows her home-made tortillas!  These tips were a proficient check for the hassles I'd had together with were all the encouragement I needed to borrow a tortilla press together with invite v friends over for a taco dejeuner a few days later.