Easy 2-Ingredient Flour Tortillas Ready In 10 Minutes

What Are Flour Tortillas?

Flour tortillas are flexible flatbreads used to make sandwiches like enchiladas and tacos or to serve as a side bread to many Mexican dishes.

Sometimes flour tortillas are also served with any grilled meat or as a quick naan bread swap on the side of a chicken tikka masala.

How To Make Easy Flour Tortillas

Are you wondering what can you make with flour and water? If you’re looking for flour and water recipes, these tortillas will be a hit.

It’s an authentic homemade flour tortilla recipe that uses oil and sometimes baking powder.

So if you wonder what to do with flour, well, you can make flour and water tortilla dough!

Yes, you can make tortillas just with flour and water – this is the quickest way to make flour tortillas! And all you have to do is mix white flour and lukewarm water!

No need to add baking powder, salt, yogurt, or oil.

You read it well! It works perfectly with only 2 basic ingredients that we all have in the pantry.

It’s amazing the things you can do with flour and water. And look at the picture. They puff really well when cooking!

Homemade Flour Tortillas Recipe – The Secrets

I have nothing against store-bought tortillas at all. It’s pretty convenient to buy ready-made food some days, and some organic brands provide very good quality flour tortillas.

However, they often contain preservatives, too much salt, and unhealthy fat.

That’s why I tried to make my own flour tortillas, oil-free, and dairy-free, using 2 basic ingredients from my pantry.

Combining Ingredients

In a large mixing bowl, add flour and add water on top, and stir – make sure the water is not cold, or the dough will be hard to knead.

Then, knead the dough by hand until it comes together into a ball. The dough should be soft, elastic, and consistent.

If too dry, add a bit more water one tablespoon at a time, or if too wet, sprinkle extra flour.

Rolling The Tortillas

You have two options for rolling and flattening flour tortillas:

• Rolling pin – the most classic way to roll tortilla dough as it doesn’t require expensive tools.
• Tortilla press – the easiest way to make flat tortillas with a lovely round shape, but not everyone has a tortilla press at home so let me explain how to roll the dough.

First, divide the dough into 4 equal balls for four large tortillas or into 6 smaller balls for smaller tortillas.

Then, flour the working surface by dusting flour all over it.

Next, place the dough ball in front of you on the floured work surface, pushing down with the palm of your hands to flatten it into a thick circle.

Finally, roll twice in one direction and twice in the other to form a nice round flour tortilla.

Cooking

Preheat a non-stick pan or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat for at least 60 seconds. You want the pan to be very hot before adding the tortilla.

Also, don’t oil the pan at all, or you will fry the tortillas, and it won’t taste good.

Place the flour tortilla in the pan and cook for 2 minutes on one side. Then, flip it and keep cooking on the other side.

It should start making big bubbles very quickly, and when there are a few golden brown spots, it’s ready.

Stack the cooked tortillas on a plate covered with a clean kitchen towel.

Storage Instructions

You can store the cooked flour tortillas in the fridge for up to 4 days.

First, place the flour tortillas on a plate, and wrap it plate with plastic wrap to prevent the tortillas from drying out in the fridge.

Then, rewarm it in a sandwich press or hot pancake griddle or skillet.

You can freeze flour tortillas in plastic bags and thaw them for 1 hour before using or the day before. Leave the frozen tortillas on a plate at room temperature to thaw.

My 5 Secrets For Flour Tortillas

These 2-ingredient tortillas are one of the simplest flour recipes ever, and they come out surprisingly good!

The flour tortillas are soft and chewy and don’t crack when rolled.

I think that’s all we expect from good tortillas!

But to achieve this result, 5 tricks make these easy flour tortillas puff and are chewy without adding oil, milk, or dairy.

1. Use lukewarm water in the mix. Yes, don’t use cold water. The best is lukewarm – think bath temperature water.
2. Use a non-stick skillet or crepe pan, or pancake griddle.
3. Make sure the pan is very hot before adding the tortillas. I leave my pan on high heat for at least 90 seconds before putting the first tortilla in. It’s even steaming – I know, scary! – but that’s the key point.
4. Do not add oil to the pan, or it will fry the tortillas.
5. Use white flour – also known as all-purpose flour – regular wheat flour works the best. It does not puff very well with wholemeal flour, I gave it a go, but the texture is not as great, not chewy.

Taste And Texture

This is a plain tortilla recipe with a very similar texture to corn tortillas. They are flexible, chewy, and bland in flavor.

To boost the flavors of these tortillas, you can add a pinch of:

• Salt
• Garlic powder
• Cumin
• Paprika
• Nutritional yeast

And you can serve it with:

• Melted butter
• Lard
• Cheese and turn them into quesadillas
• Meat, black beans, brown rice, salsa, and tomatoes to make burritos.