Hello friends! In this next video of my Mexican cooking series "De La Casa De Mi Madre", we are making corn tortillas from scratch! Once you eat a homemade corn tortilla, you'll never want the store-bought one again. These tortillas are so delicious, and with just a few kitchen tools, are easy to make. Let me know if you have any questions about the process. I hope you enjoy!

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Ingredients

230g (or 2 cups) corn flour
1 1/2 cups + 2 TBSP warm water (please see troubleshooting notes below)
1 tsp salt

Directions:
Combine the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and add the warm water, stirring with a rubber spatula. Then knead dough with your hands for about 3-5 minutes. Once dough is the consistency of playdough and doesn’t stick to your hand too much, you are finished kneading. Make 12 balls and place them back into the mixing bowl. Cover with a dampened towel for 30 minutes. Place one half of a ziplock bag (or parchment paper) on your tortilla press, then place a masa ball in the middle. Cover with the other half of the ziplock bag, then press your tortilla for a couple seconds. Flip the tortilla around and press it again gently. Take the tortilla out gently and place on a non-stick skillet set to medium heat. Cook on one side until it’s ready to flip (it shouldn’t stick to the spatula), then flip to other side to cook for another 20 seconds or so. Then transfer to a skillet or comal set to high heat and continue cooking for another 10-15 seconds. Flip over to complete last side of cooking. The tortilla should puff up. Cook for about 20 seconds. Transfer to a tortilla warmer or under a kitchen towel to keep from drying out. Enjoy fresh off the comal with a bit of butter or fry them for a delicious taco dinner (see my previous short video for a BOMB taco recipe)!

TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS:
Water amount: Depending on where you live, you may have to adjust the water amount in this recipe. I had to play around with it quite a few times before I found an amount that works right for where I live. My suggestion is to start with LESS water, and slowly add more a little at a time as you're kneading until the consistency is like playdough and it doesn't stick to your hand.

Sticking to paper: if your corn tortilla is sticking to the parchment paper or ziplock bag after you press it and not coming off in one piece, chances are that the masa is too wet and you need to add more flour. Don't worry though - you haven't wasted the batch! Just knead all the dough again and add flour until it's the right consistency then make your dough balls again.

Not puffing: if your tortilla isn't puffing at the end of cooking, it might be that the inside isn't getting cooked enough. You can try 3 things: first, try the method that I gave you in this video (one non-stick pan on medium heat and a comal on high heat). Everytime I've used this method, my tortillas have puffed. Second, make sure your tortilla isn't too thick. You can press it down to make it thinner so that the inside has a chance to cook thoroughly. Third, you can turn down your heat on the comal so that the outside isn't getting cooking too quickly and the inside doesn't have a chance to fully cook.

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CHAPTERS
00:51 Ingredients
01:22 Mix the masa
04:33 Make the dough balls
06:30 Press the tortillas
07:56 Cook the tortillas
13:22 Ending

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Products

Corn tortilla press: a.co/d/9j2MJ0q
Yellow corn flour (masa harina): a.co/d/ei7oHZz
Comal: a.co/d/bs345id

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