Flour Tortillas

Easy Rating: ***easy
Prep Time: 18 minutes (3 minutes if you skip the cover and rest step)
Cook Time: 1-2 minutes

Flour tortillas

2 cups white flour
1t salt
¾ t baking powder
1/3 cup shortening
¾ cups warm water

Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles course crumbs. Slowly stir in water and fluff with fork until dough forms. Turn out onto floured surface. Kneed dough until it is smooth (about 10 times). Cover and let rest for 15 minutes (sometimes I skip this). Pinch off a small ball of dough and roll out on floured surface. Tortillas should be thin and elastic about 10 inches in diameter. Cook on stove top, in un-greased iron skillet, nonstick pan, or electric grilled. Cook on one side until just barely brown, flip once and brown other side.

We then top with refired beans, cheese and hot sauce (I use the mild hot sauce packets from Taco Bell).