Recipe: Appetizing Quick and easy flour tortillas

Quick and easy flour tortillas. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Soft, tender Homemade Flour Tortillas are deliciously versatile and a surprisingly easy recipe with just five simple ingredients! If you like Tex-Mex recipes, you might also enjoy Easy Spanish Rice, Instant Pot Refried Beans, Creamy Jalapeño Enchiladas, or The Ultimate Homemade Taco Seasoning!

By Charlyne Mattox and Emily McKenna. Ready to think beyond the burrito? Just wrap your head around these recipes—they're easy, fast to fix, and flat-out delicious.. You can cook Quick and easy flour tortillas using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Quick and easy flour tortillas

1. Prepare 3 cups of flour.
2. It's 2 teaspoons of salt.
3. Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
4. It's 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
5. It's 1 cup of very warm water.

You don't need to cook the tortillas on both sides as they're so thin they'll cook through from the bottom. Cooking on only one side will make a better tortilla. Born and raised in Los Angeles County, I grew up eating tortillas several times a week, often handmade from the taco stand. Today my husband and our girls regularly make corn tortillas from scratch, but I have no qualms about buying giant bags of both corn and flour tortillas at the store.

Quick and easy flour tortillas step by step

1. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl..
2. Add your vegetable oil and warm water and mix together just until it comes off the sides of the bowl..
3. On a lightly floured surface knead your dough just until ingredients are mixed together..
4. Divide your ball of dough in half and half and half again until you have 16 equal size balls. About the size of the palm of your hand..
5. Take 1 ball at a time and roll out flat and thin on your floured surface. You can use a rolling pin or your hands or something heavy and cylindrical. If you're using your hands flatten out then work from the inside out to get as flat and even as possible..
6. Once you have each one rolled out get a non stick skillet and warm up on med low heat. You do NOT need to add oil or and liquids to the skillet it will make your tortillas soggy of not cook properly..
7. Cook each tortilla about 1-1.5 minutes on each side or just until light brown spots are showing adjust heat as needed to get the proper cook time so they will not be chewy or undone..
8. Now fill with your fave filling make a quesadilla even fry and top with cinnamon sugar for something sweet. Hope you enjoy..

They are super versatile, can be transformed into any number of dishes, and taste amazing. Combine all the flour, salt, vegetable oil, and water until it forms a dough. Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Use a well-floured rolling pin to roll a dough ball into a thin, round tortilla. Place into the hot skillet, and cook until bubbly and golden; flip and continue cooking until golden on the other side.