Ingredients
300 g white all purpose flour
125 g vegetable shortening
1 tsp table salt
130 ml hot water
Instructions:
Place the flour in a large bowl. Add the salt. Mix well and set aside.
Add the vegetable shortening and mix with your hands until the flour and the shortening are combined.
Then add the hot water bit by bit, using the fork, so you don’t burn your hands, mix well until a dough is form.
Then using your hand mix the dough until all the ingredients are perfectly combine and you have smooth dough ball, this takes around 10 minutes. Place the dough ball in a large bowl and rub with a bit of the vegetable shortening. Cover and let it rest for 1 hr.
Knead the dough again and separate the dough into 40 g balls. Make them very round (see picture below) and place them back into the bowl, then cover them with a kitchen tea towel and let them rest for 30 minutes.
After they have rested, heat the frying pan to medium heat. Slightly flour the surface and the rolling pin. (Do not use a lot flour)
Once the frying pan is hot. Get one dough ball and place it on a slightly flour surface, then use the rolling pin to roll the tortilla.
Roll it once and turn it around and then roll it again. Then pick it up with your hands and stretch it with your hands to make it pectectly round,
Place it on the hot frying pan and heat it for a few second and flip it over. Do these a few times. The tortilla will start puffing. It needs to cook quick, but try to avoid burning it.
Once the tortilla change colour and puffs, take it out of the frying pan and wrap it in a kitchen tea towel and put it in a tortillera.
Enjoy the first tortilla with some delicious butter and use the rest for some amazing tacos de carne asada.