Make Tortillas From Scratch

We made fish tacos last week, which meant we needed tortillas. You can buy ready-made versions from the supermarket — those giant, doughy wheels also found in those ubiquitous fajita kits — but we decided to make our own.

As it turns out, making tortillas from scratch is ridiculously easy and very therapeutic. The result is much tastier than anything you can buy in a shop, and it requires only three ingredients, two of which are water and salt. The other is masa harina flour, which isn’t available in most supermarkets, but which you can buy from Amazon for a few pounds.

Once you have made your own tortillas, you will find it difficult to return eating to the shop-bought versions. Whereas the ones you buy are usually made from wheat, this recipe uses corn flour. That gives your tortillas such a distinctive flavour that you could quite happily eat a stack of them on their own. Try it and you may never look back.