Healthy Recipe: "Sour"dough Tortillas With OAT Flour & Whole Wheat Flour

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This is totally MY recipe. I made this up!! Yayyyyy.

I'm totally obsessed with making my own homemade tortillas. I love it, it makes me feel good, and they taste fantastic! I can also be sure that it has no added chemicals. I was looking for Masa Harina, but I found out that Masa Harina is a chemical treated type of flour. I'm not being technical at all, but I don't want anything funky done to my food, if I can help it.
Anyway, I have an Ninja Blender, which I LOVE! I Love love love love it. I want the bigger more powerful one, but it's a little out of my price range with Christmas coming up. I know, it's only September, but it creeps up fast huh?

So, I made some oat flour in my Ninja blender, I added about 2 cups of regular oats, and pulsed for a few seconds, got bored of that, and then put it in 3 and left it to chop for about 3 minutes. The blender is really loud, so I couldn't take it anymore, and then poured out the flour. It was still a teeny bit gritty, so I poured it into the single serve container of the blender, and then ran it again for about 2 minutes. This resulted in an awesome oat flour. You can save yourself the trouble, and buy it, but I honestly am not sure where you can, because it is not sold anywhere near me.

Here is my recipe:

1.5 Cups of Oat flour
1.5 cups of Whole Wheat flour - maybe a bit more if your mixture is too wet
1/2 cup of Coconut Oil - *Melted
1/2-1 cup of water. Please, be super careful about the amount of water you add. Add it a little at a time.

*To melt the coconut oil, fill a deep bowl with hot water from the tap. Put the coconut oil jar in the hot water, for about 5 minutes. DO not melt the oil in the microwave, trust me, it does not turn out well. The oil starts to smoke within seconds. It's important to melt the oil, because it helps things to blend together really nicely, and melting it with hot water will make sure that it's not too hot to handle with your fingers once you need to mix everything together.

Now, you need to add the oat flour, whole wheat flour, and melted coconut oil to a bowl.Mix them all together. If you notice that your flour is a bit dry, don't fear. Add a little water, and mix thoroughly. Be careful to only add about 1/4 cup of water at a time, so that you don't add too much. If you do, just add a little flour and work it in, slowly, to make your dough form into a ball. I don't have an exact technique, but I know the dough is good and ready, when it all wants to stick together, but not to the sides of the bowl. It is not too wet, and not too dry. I would take some pictures of what I do, but my camera is broken. I would do a video as well, but I'm too self conscious about my super bootylicious body. Ha. Not joking at all on that.

You MUST let your dough rest on the counter for at least 1 hour, up to 24 hours. The longer, the better, but not too long of course. If you are going to let it rest for any longer than 1 hour, add a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar, or Lemon Juice, or Lime Juice to it. This helps to make them a bit "sour", but it's a very pleasant taste, and not at all overwhelming.

Do not put it in the fridge if you have used coconut oil, because the ball of dough will be very hard to work with, and will not want to melt. You can put it in the fridge if something comes up, and you don't have time, but you will have to break little pieces of the dough off with a knife, to make one tortilla at a time, until you've used it all. It's not a big deal, just an annoyance.

Once you have your dough divided into the sizes of balls you want, you can roll them out. I do it one at a time. I preheat my cast iron pan, on the stove, on about 7 (Med-High).

I sort of flatten the ball between my hands, then put it into my small tortilla press, which only does so much, because I want big tortillas. I then use the rolling pin to get it to the thickness I want, which is very thin. Then I put it in the pan, wait 30 seconds, flip it over, 40 seconds on that side, and then back to the first side for about 15 seconds. Then it is done. I store mine on the counter top, on a plate, inside a plastic bag, for freshness. Putting them in the fridge will keep them fresh longer, but they don't last that long for me. :)

Easy Tutorial: DIY Oat Flour

I was looking around on the internet a lot, and I saw a few recipes that called for oat flour.

I decided that I didn't need to buy it. I already had oats in the house, surely oat flour was just a matter of a few steps. Especially so, since I have an awesome Ninja Professional Blender. (I wish I had the even more powerful one - but this one is great!)

Anyway, I poured about 2 cups of regular oats into the regular 72ounce jug of the blender. I pulsed it a few times, and then said what the heck, and put it to the maximum speed, which is three. This blender is really really loud, so you will want to do this at a decent time of the afternoon, or you will likely annoy neighbours. After about 3 minutes, I checked on the oats, and it was a little gritty still, but getting to a very nice consistency. I poured the flour from the big jug, into the single serve container, as that has a different blade attachment, and then let it grind for about 2 more minutes or so. The result was a very nice fine flour, sort of like whole wheat flour is.

I used the resulting 1 1/2 cups of Oat flour in the recipe that I will post soon. The 2 cups of oats yields about 1 1/2cups of flour because of some sort of sciency reason that I can't explain. I'm not good at explaining things like that, but I'm sure it's science, and air and what not. LOL.

Anyway, I made some awesome whole wheat & oat tortillas from this. YAY!

If you don't have an awesome blender, like a Ninja, or a Vitamix, and cannot afford one, you can also use a mortar and pestle. I would recommend getting the oats as small as you can in the blender or food processor that you have, even a spice grinder, and then using the mortart and pestle to get things even finer, if needed. :)