Homemade Tortillas and Chicken Quesadillas
I love making as much of my food as possible. Homemade food tastes exponentially better than the ones you buy from the supermarket and depending on how refined your palate is; homemade food is also more economical.
That is why I make my own tortillas. Although I live in San Francisco - a city that offers a plethora of options for fine food - but for the price I pay, I can also make at home in under 30 minutes. Without further adieu, here you go - homemade Tortillas and a companion recipe for some chicken quesadillas.
This recipe will yield between 10-15 tortillas.
Tortillas ingredients
3 cups of all-purpose flour
1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of baking soda
1 cup of warm water (about 120F)
⅓ cup of oil (preferably flavor-neutral oil like canola oil)
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Instructions:
Combine flour, salt and baking soda in the mixer, pulse it a few times
Add water and mix the ingredients in 1-2 setting of your KitchenAid for about 30-60 seconds
Add oil and mix until a dough is formed
Knead the dough for about 5 minutes
Let it rest for 20 minutes
Divide up the dough into small balls. I find pinching from the big dough a small section of dough and roll it into a dough that’s roughly 1.5 inches in diameter. Continue the same process until you use up the entire dough.
Flatten each dough with a rolling pin. You do have all the control in the world as to how thick you’d like your tortillas to be.
I start heating up my cast iron as I roll my tortillas
Once the cast iron is hot enough, add oil. Once the oil is hot enough, place your flattened dough into the hot pan. It will look something like this:
Chicken quesadilla
For this recipe, I actually use leftover chicken thighs and cut them into small pieces
Add oil and heat up the chicken thigh pieces in my cast iron (should take roughly 2-3 minutes if your cast iron is already hot), scoop the chicken in a bowl.
After cleaning your cast iron or in a separate pan, heat up the freshly made tortillas, spread either mozzarella or Mexican cheese all over the tortillas. Then add enough chicken to cover one side of the tortillas.
Fold the tortilla in half. There you have it, your fresh chicken quesadilla with a homemade tortilla.
