COVID in full swing in London but girl gotta eat! Hubs and I have been craving El Pastor tacos and tuna tostadas for months now (have been in lock down since mid March).
We have decided that the only option is to make it ourselves. Slightly intimidated to start with as had to work with new ingredients but couple of Coronas in (in no relation to the virus), we started making corn tortillas.
We started by combining masa with water (260g of Masa + 1 cup of water) – keep adding water little by little until the dough is nice and squishy – consistency of a playdoh. I have left mine in a bowl for about 20 minutes covered with wet tea towel – it made it even more soft and playable.
Once the dough is nice and soft, you can start making the tortillas. we have bought our sexy taco press on Amazon – it is cast iron and super heavy and makes the perfect, round tortillas.
Split the dough into 1 ounce balls, place it between 2 sheets of plastic and press it. Do not worry, they will come out just right! The perfect tortillas should not be thicker than 3mm.
Once you have your tortillas ready, place them on a dry, medium hot pan. Once the edges start to dry out (roughly 30s-1min) flip it over. Little bubbles will start to form around the edges. Flip over again after minute or so, your tortilla will now start to puff up – it means the water inside is evaporating and it is cooking your tortilla. Few second later your first tortilla is ready to go! Yum!
The recipe makes roughly 16 / 20 small tortillas.
While the tortillas were being flipped, we were cooking a pork shoulder with pineapple in the oven. We marinated in 24h earlier in El Pastor marinate (you can find it online) and left it in the fridge.
We have also made tuna tostadas – to make tostadas you need to fry the tortilla in oil until nice and crispy, marinated tuna in orange juice and soy sauce for a few minutes before the slicing and served with deep fried leeks, avocado and chipotle mayo – we used chipotle paste and mixed it with mayo – we like it hot and spicy!
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