I was always curious to see how corn tortillas compared with wheat flour tortillas but could not make them myself without a tortilla press. Flour tortillas you can roll out by hand but with Masa Harina (corn flour), it will just fall apart.
Thanks to my friend Fran, who sent me a care package complete with tortilla press and Masa Harina, I had everything I needed to try making them myself. Epicure Selections even included a recipe for me to follow!
In a bowl add 1 1/2 cups of Masa Harina with 1/4 tsp of salt.
Stir in one cup of warm water. That’s it!
Gently knead and form dough into a ball. Cover and let rest 15 minutes.
Divide dough into 8 pieces or 12 for smaller tortillas. Mine were the bigger ones. Place a square of parchment paper in the tortilla press. Place a ball of the dough in the center and cover with a second piece of paper. Close the lid and press down with the handle.
Open and flip tortilla and press again. The hardest part for me was avoiding the dough from leaking out the side and not being a perfect circle.
In a hot pan, cook tortillas for 20 seconds, flip and cook a minute. You can flip it again according to the directions but for me, I stopped once the tortilla was nice and brown.
So how did it taste? So earthy and delicious. Warm and beautiful. You absolutely get a more authentic taste this way and I loved it. In fact they were easier to make than the flour tortillas I have made in the past. Topped with my homemade chorizo?! Astounding!
I loved them so much I went out and bought more Masa Harina right away. The tortilla press makes it so easy. One of the best tools to enter my kitchen in a long time.
Thanks Fran!
As Guy Fieri would say…”these are money!” They sound amazing. So many successful food truck owners make big bucks selling Corn Tortillas with all sorts of yummy fillings, Suzie I bet you could make a fortune with these 🙂
They look soo good, Suzie reading your blog is not helping my diet at all. Keep up with the good work, you are amazing!
It’s true Ava! I bet people make a mint selling these since you can’t find them in stores, just the wheat flour tortillas. Thanks for believing in me!
Andreea, sorry about that! It is one of the hazards of coming to my blog. That said, these are much healthier than store-bought flour tortillas. I am just saying…
I love corn tortillas! We used to make them all the time but got out of the habit. You could actually buy them at Superstore for a brief time a few years back, but sadly they no longer have them.
I just picked up a new bag of Masa Harina recently and made some again. So good! I also made your homemade chorizo, by the way, and Husband and I both enjoyed it! Will definitely make it again. 🙂
JC, I could have sworn I saw them at the Superstore when I lived out west, that’s probably when you saw them too. Too bad they disappeared!
So lad you picked up some Masa Harina and got back into making them. I got some at the Superstore on sale, score! Oh yay! That makes me so happy you liked the homemade chorizo, isn’t it tasty?! I wish Reg would eat it! LOL. May have to try the same approach but with ground chicken or turkey.
You did it again Suzie. I was planning on making some tortillas tonight. I was going to use mine for fish tacos. So glad you love your press!
Although yours look a million times better, I have twice recently bought corn tortillas at the Superstore in Bayers Lake, they only have one brand and they are just 6″ ones (I think).
I am so glad I haven’t lost my psychic foodie touch Fran, LOL. I LOVE my press, thank you! You totally rock.
Mmm… really? In what department? I shop at a different store and checked in the Mexican aisle as well as the bakery. I’ll have to look again for days I don’t want to make them. Thanks!
We’ve found the smaller size corn tortilla in our grocery store (in the midwest). They aren’t good for much other than tiny tacos or cutting up and deep frying for tortilla chips (but they do make wonderful tortilla chips).
I wish I had room in my kitchen for something as specialized as a tortilla press, because I always prefer the corn ones over the flour ones.