For some reason, Ty started looking up tortilla recipes last night - neither one of us can even remember why. Oh, he just remembered, last night's Iron Chef ingredients were tequila and tortillas!! Anyway, he said that we needed masa harina... which I had never heard of before. Enter the new google, Facebook! A quick inquiry post yielded local brands and places to procure it as well as a couple of tips for making tortillas.
I needed to stop at New Seasons on my way home anyway so I grabbed a bag of Bob's Red Mill brand masa harina. It's basically a corn flour but I think it may have more things in it because you just add water and salt. Here's how it looks in the bag and out of it:
Here's Ty adding the water and how it looks when partially mixed:
It is then supposed to rest for half an hour... but we don't have that kind of time because we are hungry bears!! So it rested for maybe 10 minutes before Ty divided it into 6 pieces (he only made a half-batch) with the pastry divider. He flatted and rounded the pieces, rolled them out and heated them in the pan. They ended up being a bit thick and crumbly - perhaps from not resting sufficiently or perhaps from needing just a smidge more water.
No matter, we're versatile people... and, did I mention, hungry bears? So we ended up making tostados with our turkey taco mix and three tortillas a piece. Final verdict? Delish!!! If I know Ty at all, he'll be trying flour tortillas next and a hybrid flour/corn tortilla won't be far behind. Oh, and the best part? We started watching a Chopped on DVR while we were eating and masa harina was in the dessert basket! What are the odds of that?
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