The tortilla project

Huh.  I was "cooking" (toasting in a dry frying pan) some pre-made corn totillas the other night  from a Mexican meal kit, and thinking how much I liked them.  I didn't realise that making your own just involves a special cornmeal flour, and water:

Homemade Tortillas Only Take Two Ingredients

Tortillas start with a dough made from regular old tap water and masa harina, a corn flour made from kernels that have been nixtamalized—soaked in an alkaline solution that softens them and makes them easier to digest. Then, those softened kernels are ground into a paste which is dried and sold as masa harina. All you have to do is add hot water to the dried corn to rehydrate—the resulting dough is similar to clay, and it’s quite easy to work with.

This sounds like a cooking experiment worth trying.

Here's a short video by a woman originally from Mexico.  They are simple - although it seems salt should be added too:



Of course, I don't have a tortilla press lying around at home.  Maybe my next birthday present?

I will report in due course.