These are nice and easy to make yourself. You can use them in so many ways. You can keep them a good week in plastic (to keep them soft) or freeze them for another day. If you do not know what to make, empty your fridge and put everything into a tortilla. Be sure your kids will eat it up. My toddler loves wraps (“rooaps”)!
To make about 15-20, take 500g of strong white flour, 300ml of hot (nearly boiling) water, a teaspoon of baking powder, salt (or not, if you have a baby eat them) and 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil (as almost always, I use the basic sunflower oil).
Start with mixing the flour, the baking powder and the salt (if you use some). The baking powder helps making them more fluffy. You do not really need it, but I highly recommend it. Then pour the hot water and 3 tablespoons of veggie oil in the bowl and mix with a large spoon until everything sticks. Drop it on a floured work top and start kneading. Add flour as needed. You want a smooth ball that feels like play-doh and doesn’t stick (if you read this blog you will know what play-doh feels like). Let the ball rest for some 15 minutes under a clean and dry tea towel. Now, cut it in equal tiny balls and flour them well.
Heat up a non-stick pan medium to hot and put in a drop of olive oil. Take one of your small balls and form it into a thin circle of about 12-15 cm. I use a rolling pin. Use a lot of flour to do that.
When done, lay it into the frying pan and fry it about 1 minute turn it and fry the other side for one minute as well. You want to have small brown spots on each side. If they spots come too quickly or are getting too dark, lower the temp, or higher the temp if you do not see these spots. Once done, lay it on a tea towel and cover it with the same.
Now, you keep doing this with each one. While you fry one, you can shape the next. you want to refresh the oil in the pan after about every 2 tortillas. Each one finished goes onto the tea towel pile. This way they stay warm and humid and remain soft. And keep covering them between piling up. When you are done, close them into the tea towel completely and let them cool down in there for about an hour.
Now you can use them. Or you can keep them in a zip-bag or you can freeze them. With the batch I made this time, I chose to make quesadillas. Homnom!