Take your cooking to the next level with homemade corn tortillas! You can learn Chaia Chef Bettina Stern's recipe at the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo.
The Expo will be held Jan. 7 and 8 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Click here for complete schedules and hours.
Stern will take to the Healthy Cooking 4 You Stage on Sunday from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. to share her recipe. Here's how to make her homemade corn tortillas:
Ingredients
- 2 cups masa
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- A pinch of salt
*You will need a tortilla press
Steps
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In a large bowl combine the masa, salt and olive oil. Whilst mixing by hand, slowly pour in the water in a thin stream, adding only enough water to bring the dough together, it should be neither too dry nor too sticky. Roll the dough into 2-inch balls and cover with a damp towel until ready to press.
Place a ball of dough in between 2 sheets of wax paper or an opened out plastic food bag and place into a tortilla press. Press the dough into a flat, round tortilla. Keep covered with a damp towel until ready to cook.
When ready to cook, heat a cast iron skillet to medium-high heat. Cook the tortillas in the dry pan for 30 seconds per side until golden and even browned or blackened in places.
Put your hot tortillas in a basket wrapped in a kitchen towel to keep them warm and tender. Corn tortillas can be made 2 hours in advance, wrapped and reheated in a 350 degree oven for about 12 minutes or in the microwave for 2 minutes.
The recipe makes 12 tortillas.
