# Homemade Tortillas

This recipe guides you through making incredibly easy and cheap homemade flour tortillas from scratch.

- Servings: 12 servings
- Total time: 10 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1.5 teaspoons salt
- 5 tablespoons room temperature butter
- 1 cup hot water
- drizzle olive oil

## Instructions

1. Add 3 cups of flour to a big bowl.
2. Add 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
3. Add 1 and a half teaspoons of salt.
4. Add 5 tablespoons of room temperature butter.
5. Add 1 cup of hot water.
6. Mix until it's a smooth ball.
7. Take a warm damp towel and cover it for 10 minutes.
8. Once it's been 10 minutes, flour your surface and transfer your dough to it.
9. Sprinkle your dough with flour and roll it up into a ball.
10. Take a knife and cut it into 12 pieces.
11. Take each individual piece and roll it up into a ball.
12. Place the ball on your floured surface and dust it with a little flour.
13. Roll this out until it's about 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
14. Get a skillet or a thick bottom pan, set the temperature to medium high heat and add just a drizzle of olive oil.
15. Wait until your skillet is warmed up, but once it is, take your tortilla and just lay it on the skillet.
16. Let that go for about 45 seconds or until it starts to bubble up, then we're gonna flip it over.
17. Once it starts to bubble up, flip it over for another 30 to 60 seconds.
18. After about another 45 seconds it's done.
19. Once the tortilla is done cooking, put it on a plate and cover it with a towel.

## Equipment

- big bowl
- damp towel
- knife
- rolling pin
- skillet or thick-bottom pan

## Tips

- This tortilla is 10 times better than anything you're gonna buy in the store, it's five ingredients, it has no crap, no filler and it tastes incredible. You'll never get a tortilla like this in the store.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOo9ontEdhO/?igsh=MXFkajdtaDd5cWQ2OQ==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/40d53193-6626-4e10-b9c8-ad0e3bc4b01b
- Extracted: 2025-09-15

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