To authentically prepare Mexican cuisine and its dishes, you should make your own tortillas. Nothing is closer to the original recipe of the Mexican cuisine than the homemade corn tortillas. Corn is the most important grain in Tex-Mex cuisine. The whole corn kernel is often used in addition to corn flour. With only 5 ingredients, your corn tortillas are ready in under 70 minutes. How exactly, that you will learn here!
As with other Mexican and South American recipes, we focus on the basic recipe for our dish. Besides corn tortillas, wheat tortillas are also used for different Tex-Mex dishes. You can find the original recipe for Mexican wheat tortillas here.
Mexican corn tortilla homemade
Equipment
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Dough roller
- Cling film
- 1 Coated pan with a diameter of 16 centimeters
Ingredients
- 300 g Corn flour Masa Harina
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
- 120 ml Water
Instructions
- Knead the corn flour with the salt, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and water in the bowl to form a dough.
- Form 12 balls of dough and cover with plastic wrap.
- Let the dough balls rest for 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle the work surface with a little flour and roll out each ball of dough with a rolling pin into patties, each 14 to 16 centimeters in diameter.
- Heat a coated skillet and heat each patty on both sides for about 3 minutes.
What does tortilla mean?
Tortilla in Mexican means “flat cake baked from corn flour”. Of course, there are also tortillas made from wheat flour or whole wheat flour. Typical for the Mexican cuisine are wheat as well as corn tortillas.
How difficult is it to prepare corn tortillas yourself?
Bake Mexican corn tortillas yourself is very simple. The preparation is similar to those of wheat tortillas. From only 5 ingredients and 60 minutes of time you can prepare your own dough patties. How exactly, that you learn above in the article.
What is the best way to store corn tortillas?
The fresh corn tortillas should be wrapped in a damp kitchen towel immediately after baking and stored. If you want to use the tortillas a few hours later, you can wrap the Mexican flatbreads in cling film or store them in an airtight container or bag.
What is the shelf life of corn tortillas?
The freshly baked corn tortillas will keep for about 4 days if you wrap them in plastic wrap and keep them away from heat sources and sunlight. An airtight container can also be used for preservation. If you want to keep them longer, it is recommended to freeze the tortillas or directly your wrap or burrito.
How do corn tortillas not get hard?
Your corn tortillas will stay nice and soft and elastic the longest in a damp tea towel or an airtight container or freezer bag.
Can corn tortillas be frozen?
You can freeze corn tortillas in a freezer bag or airtight container for several weeks. It’s even easier to freeze your ready-made burritos or wraps as a finished dish first.
Tortilla on Wikipedia
