Tortilla-Making

Homemade Tortilla

When I lived in Honduras, there was a family who sent out their daughter every evening, to sell tortilla's door-to-door. She came knocking, basket in hand with stacks of corn tortilla's covered in linen.

Tegucigalpa, at the time still recovering from Hurricane Mitch, sold the tools for tortilla-making in every market; a wooden press and a crudely cut tin plate.

Tortilla Tools

Meseca Corn Flour happened to be available at our local Fresh Co. The recipe written on the side of the bag resulted in clumpy dough, so we added some more water for the right consistency. You're not going for pancake batter sloppy but rather for 'clean' playdough consistency. You can adjust the recipe adding more flour or water as necessary, since these are the only ingredients needed!

Then you cut two circles out of a sturdy sandwich bag material. These will serve as a smooth tool to peel your flattened corn ball from the press to the pan.

Corn Ball

O is demonstrating how to use the press;)

Framma sent us home last week with Edamame Hummus, so we grilled our tortilla's and topped with this Asian style hummus. 

Very Yum.

Now we have to get this recipe from Fram to post here;)