

Make sure that you use xantham gum (1 teaspoon per each 500 grams) to ensure your tortillas won’t fall apart and you can mix them and roll them out easily. If you want to make this recipe gluten free, use your favourite mix of gluten free flours (for cake baking), such as rice, buckwheat, cornflour or other cornmeal substitutes which are naturally gluten free.

Both lupin and potato flour will make the tortilla flat bread a little lighter and add flavour and colour. You can use other types of flours, including potato flour or lupin flour, but replace only about 10% to make sure the dough still works. This tortilla flat bread recipe is also handy if you run out of strong bread flour, because it uses plain (cake or all-purpose) flour. What types of flours are best to use for tortilla wraps Tortillas were traditionally made from corn, but when Spanish discovered Latin Amerika, they brought the recipe with them to Europe, where they started to make the tortillas with plain wheat flour (which was more common in Europe). Tortillas were originally made by Maya people in Latin America and Mexico and it’s said that the first tortilla was a gift to the king. These were easy to make, didn’t need to be proved and didn’t required oven to bake them. Yes, they absolutely are! Although these days we think of bread as the light fluffy bread that you can use for sandwiches and toast, in the olden days (before the invention of yeast and the oven), you would have mainly unleavened flat breads.


Today I wanted to share with you one of the easiest types of bread there is – a tortilla flat bread! This easy tortilla bread is a simple bake with flour, water and salt.
