Gluten Free White Tortillas
When we come across a gluten-free bread-ish recipe (like these tortillas) I just get so giddy and want to tell everyone about it, oh wait, I have! 🙂 We had yet to find a good gluten-free tortilla that we could buy so finding a recipe we could make AND really enjoy is pretty exciting.
What I love so much about this recipe is that it uses basic gluten free flours that we use on a daily basis (white rice flour, brown rice flour and tapioca starch), so I don’t need to hunting in the grocery store for weird flours (like my one cookbook that calls for a lot of pea fiber 80 – what is that?!).
For a gluten free recipe the dough is fairly easy to work with, I definitely struggle a bit with rolling them out properly, I think a tortilla press will be going on my Christmas list this year, but thankfully the overall shape doesn’t matter too much and they still taste delicious.
We like to use these tortillas with tacos (make with our homemade taco seasoning), chicken fajitas and if you are three years old and like Raeca, completely plain.
Gluten Free Flour Tortillas
- 1 cup tapioca starch
- 1/2 cup white rice flour
- 1/2 cup brown rice flour
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 tbsp shortening
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 2 tsp xanthan gum
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
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Mix together the flours, white sugar, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum.
Mix in the shortening with your fingers until well combined.
Add the water and mix well.
If the mixture is too dry, add a little more water.
Heat an ungreased skillet on medium-high heat.
Roll out tortillas and cook each one on the hot pan until it begins to bubble. Then flip and cook until the bottom has some brown spots.
They are the best if you stack them on top of each other as they come out (this softens them up a bit). You can also throw a s lightly damp towel over the top one.
I kind of want to eat these every day now.
How do you like to eat tortillas?
one of the more misshapen tortillas . . . who am I kidding, they are all pretty misshapen
definitely adding a tortilla press to the Christmas list
Definitely adding this to my list of things to try..I love tortillas!
Awesome, I hope you enjoy them!
I’m so excited for this recipe! I’ve tried a few store bought GF tortillas + they taste like cardboard. Thanks for sharing this gem!
Yeah, Jared didn’t like any of the ones he bought (I never tried them), I like that these ones taste like regular wheat tortillas.
yummm I just used some chickpea flour and made some tortillas this weekend…delicious!
Oh that sounds good!
Yum! When I was working on a farm in Ecuador we used to make our own tortillas and I haven’t been able to perfect them since. I can’t wait to give these a go! I’ve never thought to add xanthan gum, but that’s a great idea to make them sticky and bind
Oh wow, that sounds like the perfect experience! These actually stick together amazingly well, I was pleasantly surprised the first time I made them.
These look amazing, and I love that they aren’t perfectly round. 🙂 We had tacos tonight. So so good!
Haha, that seems to be a theme with my cooking/baking. At least they still taste delicious! 🙂
love homemade tortillas!
Misshapen or not, those look delicious! We love taco night- everyone in our family looks forward to it. And we load our tacos up with all the goodies- so many calories, yum. I like quinoa and black beans on mine. I’ve never tried to make my own tortillas, but now I want to!
You should definitely try making your own, it definitely makes me feel like a better homemaker 🙂
SO EXCITED about this recipe! Thanks for sharing. My 8 yr old will be thrilled.
Yay, I hope you guys love it as much as we do!
tortilla press is a thing :-O i think you just made my day 🙂
Haha, I do what I can! 🙂
I’m going to admit my ignorance … what exactly is gluten? and why are so many people intolerant to it? I know it cuts out a lot of foods for a lot of people. I can’t even begin to imagine.
I do know of 1 gluten free recipe and that is because it is Brazilian. It is ‘Brazilian Cheese Bread’ or “Pao De Quiejo”. Have you heard of it? It’s basically tapioca flour, mozzarella cheese, egg and oil. You blend it in the blender and bake them in cupcake pans. They are really good!
It is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. I think the way we’ve modified crops so much over the last few years has made the intolerance a lot higher. So we have to use a combination of flours instead of regular all-purpose flour, we mostly use white rice flour, brown rice flour, tapioca starch and potato starch. We have made Brazillian Cheese Balls before, they were pretty good.
Honestly, I knew pretty much nothing about Celiac or gluten intolerances before Jared was diagnosed last year, it’s been a learning curve!
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 I can’t wait to see what you share this week!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
Thanks Cindy!