Basic Corn Tortillas

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It's hard to bushed freshly made tortillas, and this look is casual capable for conscionable astir anybody. We admit cook and TV cooking-show big Pati Jinich's instrumentality to support the masa dough from sticking to the tortilla press: Use the bladed integrative bags from your grocer's nutrient department.

You'll request a comal (a level cast-iron pan), griddle oregon cast-iron skillet and a tortilla press. (If you don't person a press, you tin usage a rolling pin to rotation retired balls of masa dough betwixt pieces of integrative wrap.)

If utilizing caller masa, usage the dough wrong 24 hours oregon frost the remaining masa. Do not refrigerate. When wrapped successful plastic, caller masa tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months. Just-cooked tortillas tin beryllium kept wrapped successful a cleanable crockery towel for up to 2 hours; otherwise, enclose them, towel-wrapped, successful a integrative container and refrigerate for up to 3 days. Reheat successful a blistery comal, griddle oregon adust skillet for 30 seconds oregon so. The tortillas tin beryllium individually wrapped successful integrative wrapper and frozen for up to respective months.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per tortilla

• Calories

  70

• Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  15 g

• Sodium

  95 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Pati’s Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).

Tested by Tim Carman.

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