Beef Tortillas w/ Homemade Flour Tortillas

I am not sure why Shelby and I have never tried this before. But after last night, we have concluded that we will never buy flour tortillas again. EVER. This was dead simple, cheap and very tasty!!

Shelby is big into Pinterest, and found a recipe for flour tortillas from a website called "The Urban Spork" Pretty neat site! They use white flour in the recipe, and we used whole wheat. We also didn't have 5 tbsp of shortening...we had 3, so I used canola oil instead.

Our 12 tortillas cost us approx .75 cents. Compared to the $3.89 Superstore charges for 10 flour tortillas. Flour is approx 68 cups to 10kg bag, At 10 bucks, that's 14.7 cents a cup.

Here is what you need:

2 3/4 cups of flour plus extra for rolling
5 tbsp of shortening
3/4 tsp of salt
3/4 cup of very warm tap water.

Follow link here to follow directions. Super easy. http://theurbanspork.com/menu/

After the tortillas were made, we fried up some ground beef with garlic and chopped cilantro. Seasoned with salt and pepper. Toppings included Lettuce, cheese, Leeks, Sour Cream, Salsa and Green Peppers. Assemble and serve! Simple.

Tortillas once the dough is made and separated into 12 balls.

Frying the dough in a hot pan, no grease. 30-45 seconds a side.

These tortillas were nice and soft, but also held up to being packed full of meat and cheese! I never once ripped one.

I heated the oven a bit, then place cooked tortillas on a rack. Awesome!

Fill tortillas with whatever you want, use for egg wraps, replace the store bought ones with these ones!! You know exactly what is in them, no preservatives. So try them today! We are converted and will never buy them again!! Get some people together and have a tortilla making afternoon, freeze and store!

Enjoy

Cory