Hello everyone. My name is Elias.
I'm the head chef of Via Canta,
and today I'm going to show you how to make
tortillas.
We're
going to start making it tortillas.
So to make it tortillas,
we need to mix corn flour.
This kind of corn flour you can find in any
store
here. Just going to add a little of that and
a little bit of warm water,
just a tiny bit
and we're going to mix all this that is going
to turn out into a masa
masa in Mexico. We use it for everything.
We use masa to make tamales,
tortillas for the tacos. It's the primarily ingredient in Mexican
food.
So we're just going to mix all this.
Just mix it with your hands.
We're looking to get a kind of like a dry
dough, a dry masa. I will call it Mexico
mix it super well.
Let's see, once you get a
kind of like a dry masa that doesn't sink in
your hand,
it will be ready to go.
So get a wet towel,
just put it on top of your masa
while you turn on the pan for the tortillas so
the masa doesn't get dry and then they're going to
break.
Once the masa is ready,
just start making a small balls
so you can press them after to make the tortillas.
Just make sure whenever you're rolling
to make the small balls,
put kind of pressure so the tortillas,
they're nice and tight. Just put it back straight in
the same bowl as you keep making them.
Just going to use them right after now
just make small balls. This depends how big you want
your tortillas.
If you want them big,
make quite a big balls.
If you want small, just make
tiny balls. So I will recommend you about like 15
grams for a piece of tortilla.
Remember tortillas just corn and water so they're gluten free.
You're prepared for every occasion.
You can make tacos, you can make quesadillas
and make millions of things.
We're going to start pressing the tortillas.
If you don't have a press,
you can just get a rolling pan,
some paper, roll it, and then just cut it with
a cookie cutter.
Depends the size of the tortilla that you're looking for.
Just get plastic back like a sandwich back.
Just cut it off, divide it into
get one of your balls,
spirit right in the center,
press a little bit,
just press tiny bit, fold it back again,
press again.
Next step, let's turn on the pan.
Medium high heat and we just going to press the
tortillas,
put them there, 30 seconds on one side,
about 45 seconds on the other,
and then just finish it for 10 seconds.
There's the say in Mexico that if you're tortilla pop,
you're ready to get married.
Make sure you have a towel where you can keep
them warm at all the time.
So here, have your tortillas
ready to go. You can make tacos,
you can make quesadillas, you can make everything,
put everything you want on top,
the whole process to make the tortillas for about four
people,
it will take about 20 minutes,
just enough for everyone to have two to three tacos.
I wouldn't freeze the tortillas.
I will just make them fresh all the time,
so if you freeze them they will break.