Homemade flour tortillas

Flour tortillas can be made easily and inexpensively by hand.  They require few ingredients and contain no preservatives like the pre-packaged varieties.   I got the original recipe from mykoreankitchen.com.

Recipe for 4 tortillas:

2 cups flour, plus more for dusting

2 tbsp cornstarch

1 tsp salt

2 tsp olive oil

3/4 cup warm water

Sift flour, cornstarch and salt together in a bowl.  Add olive oil and water. *(You may want to start with a 1/2 cup of water and add more as needed to form the dough).  Kneed the dough until elastic, 5-10 minutes.  Divide the dough into 4 pieces.  Sprinkle the counter with flour, roll each ball of dough to lightly cover in flour.  Sprinkle more flour as needed and roll out one ball of dough at a time with a rolling pin (or an empty wine bottle) into a thin round shape.  Repeat with other balls of dough.  Use a piece of parchment paper or foil between each tortilla when stacking them to prevent them from sticking together.  Heat a dry skillet.  Add one tortilla and cook for 20-30 seconds on one side, flip and cook for 20-30 seconds on the other side.  Repeat with other tortillas.  Cover with foil to keep warm.

You can use these to fulfill a Mexican craving, as a sandwich wrap, as a pizza base, etc.