To encourage a nice puff on beautiful blue corn tortillas I will gently “spank” it with my spatula. Next time you can use smaller dough balls and make street tacos. Or larger dough balls and ...

Corn is one of the most important ingredients ... and gently peel the plastic off both sides (reserve them for the next tortilla). Gently place the tortilla in the frying pan and cook for 15 ...

These homemade tortillas start with a dough made from whole-grain corn masa that is shaped and then cooked like a pancake on a griddle. Homemade salsa makes a great accompaniment. About 1,500 B.C ...

Mexico is self-sufficient in white corn, used to make the country’s staple tortilla, but imports genetically-modified yellow corn from the United States which is used largely to feed livestock.

Optimization for cost and convenience has made the average tortilla more redolent of cardboard than corn, designed not for flavor but to encase delicious fillings. But a growing group of chefs ...