{"id":1544,"slug":"homemade-corn-tortillas","title":"Homemade Corn Tortillas","description":"Tortillas are a type of flatbread popular in Mexico and Central America, commonly made from wheat flour or masa. This recipe is for the masa (corn) variety; see Flour Tortilla for the wheat flour version.","ingredients_raw":["2 cups masa (masa harina, masa lista)","2 cups water","1 teaspoon salt"],"ingredients_norm":["masa","water","salt"],"steps":["In a large bowl, stir together the masa and salt.","Add the water, and mix together well to form a dough.","Turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead for 5 minutes.","Divide the dough into ¼ cup (3 oz / 90 g) portions, and form them into balls.","Roll each ball into a flat round about 6 inches (10 cm) in diameter and ⅛ inches (0.25 cm) thick.","Heat a large heavy skillet over medium high heat.","Place the tortillas one at a time into the dry hot skillet; cook until brown on one side, then turn and brown the other side.","Remove from the skillet and keep warm in cloth towel."],"categories":["Flatbread recipes","Mexican recipes","Tex-Mex recipes","Pan fried recipes","Recipes for flatbread","Recipes using corn flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Homemade_Corn_Tortillas","source_ref":"4495057","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Homemade_Corn_Tortillas&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"4fe509a6165e5cbb4557dbf9a624a2dea559c2952c74cf53b1544ebc6a9c05ef","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/homemade-corn-tortillas"}