

“What a fun book! Dotty Griffith begins with clear tutorials on making corn and flour tortillas from scratch, along with lots of creative variations. Plus she serves up more than a hundred ways to turn your hand-crafted tortillas into tonight’s dinner, with recipes for all the very best homemade Southwestern, TexMex, and Mexican sauces, toppings, and fillings you need to turn out soul-satisfying enchiladas, fajitas, tacos and taco salads, chalupas, quesadillas, burritos, and more. Dotty Griffith reveals how easy it is to make these authentic and rustic round flatbreads, with scrumptious recipes for corn and wheat tortillas, gluten-free tortillas, and tortilla spin-offs like gorditas and sopes great ideas for exciting flavored tortillas, using spices, tomatoes, spinach, and chile peppers and loads of expert wisdom about how to use and love your tortilla press, whatever kind you own. Warm, fresh homemade tortillas beat store-bought any day of the week.

Lay the tortillas in the basket in stacks of twelve. Line the steamer basket with a thick, clean kitchen towel. Pour one-half inch (1 cm) of water in the bottom ofa steamer.
