Homemade tortillas in 5 steps

Your kids will love making tortillas

Cinco de Mayo is Saturday! I’m counting down the days until this American celebration of all things Mexican by posting ideas and recipes every day.

Today’s post is all about homemade tortillas. These are so easy and perfect for kids who want to help out in the kitchen.

These pictures will guide you through making tortillas. Easy peasy!

Step 1:

Mix water and PAN (white corn flour, NOT Masa which makes for harder tortillas) according to package directions.

Step 2:

Make dough into 1-inch balls and place at the center of your tortilla press that has been covered with plastic wrap on both sides (cutting boards will work too, but it’s a little harder to get the tortillas as thin).

Step 3:

Press the tortilla ball until thin.

Optional step: Use a large biscuit cutter to make the tortillas uniform in size.

Step 4:

Bake the tortillas on a preheated cast iron or other heavy-bottomed skillet.

If you've never purchase PAN, here's what to look for at the store.

Step 5:

Keep the cooked tortillas in a tortilla warmer or a clean kitchen towel until you’ve worked your way through all of the dough.

Here's what my $10 tortilla press looks like.

Looking for more specific directions? No worries, check out my detailed post about making homemade tortillas at Wandering Educators.

Having fun making tortillas

Kids’ reactions:

“Mom, we should have made more.” That says it all.