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Homemade Sourdough Tortillas: A Recipe from the Farm

A simple recipe for homemade sourdough tortillas. These tortillas are soft, flavorful and perfect for taco night. Once you have a fresh homemade tortilla it will be hard to go back to store bought.
Author Mariah Nienhuis

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (100g) water distilled at room temperature
  • ½ cup (120g) buttermilk
  • ¾ cup (160g) active sourdough starter or discard
  • ¼ cup (50g) oil – your favorite cooking oil – I like canola oil
  • 3 ½ cups (475g) all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp (10g) sea salt

Instructions

  • In a medium bowl with your gram scale, measure out the first 4 ingredients. The water, buttermilk, active starter, or sourdough discard, and oil. Mix together by hand or with a spoon or Danish dough hook, until well mixed.
  • Then add/weigh out the flour and sea salt and mix/knead by hand until there are no more dry pieces left in the bowl. This will take a couple of minutes.
  • Cover with a tea towel and let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
  • Next take and weigh out your tortillas; dividing them into equal pieces.
  • 75g each for a large tortilla or 60g for a medium to small tortillas
  • Take each one and roll it on the counter with your hand cupped to create dough balls.
  • Place on a parchment lined baking sheet or any parchment paper lined airtight container and place in fridge covered with lid or plastic wrap for 1 hour or up to 3 days.
  • I usually put mine in the fridge and cook them the next day.

Rolling and Cooking the Tortillas

  • When you are ready to cook the tortillas, take them out of the fridge and roll the tortillas with a rolling pin, on a floured surface, as thin as you can get them. (see tips below)
  • As you are rolling the tortillas out preheat a cast iron pan/griddle to medium heat. You can do these two different ways.
  • Either roll and cook the tortillas as you go
  • ~or~
  • Roll them all out stacking parchment paper in between the tortillas so they don’t stick together and cook them once they are all rolled and ready.
  • When cooking the tortillas place them on the preheated hot pan for about 1 minute; 2-3 minutes total. You want the side to be golden brown in spots. Then flip the tortilla over. If they balloon up that is actually a good thing and helps the tortilla cook more evenly.
  • Continue with all the tortillas and stack the cooked tortillas in a tea towel as you go. Placing them in a tea towel helps them to be soft and pliable.
  • When they are all cooked you can either use them immediately or stack the finished tortillas and freeze in a freezer zip top plastic bag.

Notes

TIPS: Start rolling your tortilla out and once it is partially rolled out set to the side and do this with two more tortillas. After you have done this take the first one you partially rolled out and finish rolling and cooking it. Continue like this until all the tortillas are cooked. Doing it this way allows the gluten to rest and makes it easier to get your tortillas rolled out well.
https://thefarmchicken.com/homemade-sourdough-tortillas-a-recipe-from-the-farm/