I got a cast iron tortilla press for Christmas this year which is super nice and I like it but it’s kind of an awkward thing to be gifted when you’re traveling for the holidays. What am I supposed to do with this heavy thing? Mail it home? Stick it in my carry-on and drag it through the airport? (Spoiler: I did the latter.)

Anyway here’s how to make flour tortillas.

You will need:

• a tortilla press. (Mine is 8 inches.)
• a griddle
• mixing bowl
• measuring cups and spoons
• one ziploc sandwich bag

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup fat (I used grapeseed oil. You can also use butter, etc.)
• 1 cup hot water (100 degrees F)

Steps:

• Combine all the dry ingredients and mix em up.
• Add the fat and mix so it’s kind of clumpy or flaky, like biscuit batter if you’ve made biscuits
• Slowly add the water and stir it up into a batter.
• Knead it a couple times
• Divide the dough into sixths and into fourths = twentyfour 2 - 3 inch balls
• let em rest 15 - 30 minutes
• turn your griddle on to medium high heat
• cut your ziploc sandwich bag in half along the edges
• Put a dough ball between the plastic sheets and smash it in the press
• slap it on the griddle, 30 - 60 seconds per side
• just keep doing that