Homemade Flour Tortillas And Beef Fajitas
Homemade Flour Tortillas And Beef Fajitas

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, homemade flour tortillas and beef fajitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

See how easy it is to make your own homemade flour tortillas. They're easy to make and so much better than store bought tortillas. Fry 'em up with just a little lard in a hot cast iron skillet, then go to town, filling them with all the fixings for fajitas, soft tacos, enchiladas, or burritos.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade flour tortillas and beef fajitas using 15 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Flour Tortillas And Beef Fajitas:
  1. Take For The Flour Tortillas
  2. Get 4 cups all-purpose flour
  3. Make ready 2 tsps baking powder
  4. Take 2 tbsps shortening
  5. Take 2 tsps salt
  6. Make ready Warm water or milk for kneading
  7. Get For The Meat Fajitas
  8. Take 2 Red bell peppers (sliced)
  9. Make ready 2 green bell peppers (sliced)
  10. Take 2 yellow bell peppers (sliced)
  11. Get 2 large onions (sliced)
  12. Make ready 2 red chillies (chopped)
  13. Prepare cilantro or coriander leaves (chopped)
  14. Make ready Any sauce (hot sauce, guacamole, salad, sour cream, salsa, chopped tomatoes etc)
  15. Prepare Spices (Spice to your own taste)

How to make homemade flour tortillas. Our soft flour tortilla recipe uses a few tools that we find making them just like you get at your favorite Mexican restaurant. These Homemade Flour Tortillas are so fresh and velvety soft and amazing, especially with fajitas. I prefer my homemade flour tortillas with shortening.

Steps to make Homemade Flour Tortillas And Beef Fajitas:
  1. Mix ingredients together, add the warm water or milk and make a soft dough.
  2. Knead it well.
  3. Let it rest covered for about 20 minutes, then divide the dough into 16 equal portions.
  4. Roll each one out as thin as you can.
  5. Once all are rolled out, heat a nonstick pan and place the tortillas one at a time, cooking each briefly for a few seconds on medium-high heat then turning it to cook the other side until bubbly and slightly golden.
  6. Don't overcook them as you need them to be soft and pliable, not crisp or hard.
  7. Keep the ready ones covered in a hotpot or under a towel to keep them soft.
  8. Serve fresh by rolling some filling in them and serving as fajitas or in whichever way you like.
  9. Grill the beef strips on medium heat for about 3-4 minutes per side or until slightly charred
  10. Once beef strips are done, remove and set aside.
  11. Keep the meat covered to retain moisture.
  12. Add the oil in a sauce pan.
  13. Saute the onions until tender.
  14. Add the bell pepper strips
  15. Sprinkle spices and the chopped red chili.
  16. Stir-fry over high heat until the bell peppers are tender and start to charr slightly around the edges.
  17. You can then return the beef strips into the pan and mix them with the peppers, heat everything through until sizzling hot, or serve the two separately.
  18. Turn off the heat and serve.
  19. To assemble, lay a warmed tortilla wrap, apply some sauce/salad followed by the filling.
  20. Roll and serve immediately. Enjoy!

I think the oil makes for the prettiest looking flour tortilla but the shortening just gives it a taste and texture that makes me want to gobble them down plain as soon as they come out of the hot pan. These homemade flour tortillas have taken our. I don't made flour tortillas from scratch very often because they take a little time, but every time I do (and I did yesterday) I vow never, ever to buy tortillas in the store again. Flour tortillas are high on the list of things that just don't translate well to mass-production/supermarket fare, and while larger. Funny story about these tortillas. my husband and I realized that we needed some to make fajitas for dinner tonight, he said he'd go to the store to get some.

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