Soft Paleo Flour Tortillas
These soft Paleo flour tortillas are soft, bendable and have a savory buttery taste that goes with everything. They even freeze well!
Yield: 8 6-inch tortillas
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups (140 g) finely ground blanched almond flour
- 1 ½ cups (180 g) tapioca starch/flour plus more for sprinkling
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon grain-free baking powder
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum (optional, but highly recommended)
- 2 tablespoons (24 g) virgin coconut oil melted and cooled
- 1 (25 g) egg white at room temperature
- ⅜ cup (3 fluid ounces) warm water plus more as needed
Instructions
- In a large bowl, place the almond flour, tapioca starch/flour, salt and baking powder, and (optional) xanthan gum, and whisk to combine well.
- Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients, add the coconut oil, egg white, and about 3 fluid ounces warm water, and mix to combine well. The dough should come together and be thick but relatively soft.
- Add more water by the teaspoonful if necessary to bring the dough together.
- Press the dough into a disk, divide it into two portions, wrap each tightly in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes, and up to 3 days.
- Once the dough is chilled, heat a cast iron skillet or tortilla pan over medium heat until quite hot.
- Working with one half of the dough at a time, knead the dough in between your palms a bit.
- Lightly sprinkle a flat surface with tapioca flour, place the dough on top and sprinkle it lightly with more tapioca flour.
- Moving the dough frequently and sprinkling with more flour as necessary to prevent it from sticking, use a rolling pin to roll the dough until it’s about 10 inches wide. The dough will be thicker than the final tortillas will be.
- Using a 6-inch cake cutter or the lid of a pot about the same size, cut out a proper 6-inch round.
- Remove the scraps of dough and set them aside.
- Sprinkle the round with more flour and roll it out again, moving it frequently to avoid its sticking, until it’s about 1/4-inch thick (no thinner). Cut out a 6-inch round again.
- Place the raw tortilla in the hot skillet and it to cook until bubbles form on the underside (about 45 seconds).
- Using a wide, flat spatula, flip the tortilla over and continue to cook on the other side until just set (about 20 seconds more).
- Remove the tortilla from the skillet and place it in a tea towel to keep warm. Gather the remaining dough and repeat the process at least 3 other times with this half of the dough.
- You won’t likely have to cut a round and then reroll the dough thinner after the first tortilla. Repeat with the second half of the dough.
- Storage.
- If you’re not planning to serve the tortillas right away, wrap them tightly and refrigerate for up to 3 days and freeze for longer storage.
- To refresh before serving, microwave the tortillas at full power for about 20 seconds before serving. They’ll be good as new.
- If you freeze the tortillas, defrost at room temperature and then refresh as you would if they had been refrigerated.
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