Step 1

Take a big bowl and add the flour, salt, oil (or butter or lard), baking powder (optional) and water. Use your hands and knead it into an elastic dough

Step 2

Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap and let the dough rest for 30 minutes

Step 3

Cut the dough ball into equal-sized pieces of dough the size of a golf ball. Set the dough balls aside

Step 4

Take a tortilla press and put parchment paper on the bottom of the press then add a ball and add another piece of parchment paper

Step 5

Close the tortilla press and press down on the tortillas. Rotate the tortillas and press again

Step 6

Remove the top piece of parchment paper

Step 7

Heat a cast-iron skillet or comal to hot. Then put your tortilla in the pan and cook for 30 seconds to a minute

Step 8

Flip the tortilla and cook for another 30 seconds or 1 minute until you see dark patches appear

Step 9

Remove the tortilla from the pan and store in a tortilla warmer or wrap in a clean kitchen towel

Step 10

Repeat for the remaining tortillas