Bacon Fat Flour Tortillas
These sound really good, thicker than store bought, and a hell of a lot cheaper as well 🙂 On my to cook list.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons bacon fat, see Step 1
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, plus 1 1/2 teaspoon
- 1¼ cups milk, divided
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
- 3 cups all purpose flour, plus more for work surface
Instructions
- For the bacon fat, you can either fry up some bacon or if you keep bacon fat in the fridge, use that when it is softened up.
- Add to a small sauce pan, the oil, ¾ cup of milk, and the bacon fat, heat on medium low to just bring the mixture to a simmer, do not let it boil. Once at a simmer, remove from heat.
- In a mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, and baking powder and whisk together. Make a well in the center and pour in the heated milk mixture and the remaining ½ cup of milk, and using your hands, mix until a rough dough forms.
- Lightly flour your work surface and turn out dough onto that. Knead dough for about 4 minutes until it is smooth and elastic. Wrap in plastic wrap and let it rest on the counter for 1 hour.
- When 1 hour has passed, unwrap the dough and cut into 16 even pieces and form each into a ball about 1½ inches diameter. Cover with a kitchen towel.
- Take one ball and on your floured work surface, roll it out to a 6 inch round. Place that under the towel and repeat the steps for the remaining balls.
- Once all the tortillas are rolled out, heat a cast iron pan on medium low to medium heat, add a tortilla and cook for about 2 minutes, you want some brown spots to form on the bottom and air bubbles form on the surface, poke the large bubbles with a fork. Flip and cook another 1 to 2 minutes. Remove and stack under the towel, repeat for remaining tortillas.
- Fill with your favorite taco fillings and enjoy.
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