Say goodbye to your tortilla press and use your stand mixer for fast(er) tortilla-making at home. For these instructions, you would need the pasta roller attachment (not just for pasta making)! Here’s how I make 32 tortillas in under 30 minutes (not including dough resting time or extra little helpers):
Big ball of tortilla dough
25% wheat tortillas
Flatten
Hold top taut to stretch out dough
- Ingredients:
- 4 cups flour, all-purpose or high-gluten bread; you can substitute up to 1 cup with whole wheat or spelt flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- Directions:
- Combine flour and salt.
- Cut shortening into flour/salt mixture using a pastry cutter.
- Add warm water.
- Knead using the dough hook until the mixture comes together in a ball.
- Keep dividing the dough in half until you get 32 balls.
- If you have time, let dough rest at least 30 minutes.
- Heat a skillet over medium high or high depending on how fast you want to work.
- Attach the pasta roller onto your KitchenAid. Set the thickness to ‘2’
- Generously cover a plate with flour, about 1/4 cup to start adding more as needed.
- Flatten each ball of dough on the floured plate while dusting both sides with flour.
- Feed the flattened dough into the pasta roller, holding and gently pulling on the top edge to stretch out the dough.
- Turn 90 ° and feed the long side through the roller again.
- Place the dough over your closed fist and using your hand, pull and stretch out the dough to desired shape as needed. This is similar to making pizza dough. The longer the dough has rested, the easier this step will be.
- Cook the tortilla about 5 to 15 seconds per side depending on how hot your skillet is. While you are doing this step, you can start feeding the next tortilla through the pasta roller.
Believe it or not, you can get your kids to help you make tortillas. When my son was three, I would flatten the dough for him and he would feed the first pass through the pasta roller. I would do the second pass and adjust his extremely oblong tortilla. Now that he’s four, he’s actually very helpful – he can flatten and make both passes through the roller. My two year old? Well, she just enjoys playing with a small piece of dough trying to imitate big brother. It definitely slows down the process but the three of us make quite a tortilla baking factory!
Little helper
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