Summer Family BBQ Beef Roast
We love our summer Saturday dinners with family and friends. We have recently hosted Luke's Karissa and her mom for a tasty dinner at the 3T. If you think beef roast is only good on cold snowy days, think again! Our BBQ Beef Roast was a hit and we had no leftovers. Nothing makes me more happy than people going for second serving of food!
Karissa has been helping on the 3T all summer long. We are so glad Luke found a match that is not afraid of hard work during our hot summer days. They have fixed many miles of fence together, helped with branding and sorting calves, played with our two little people, so the ranch mom can get some work done.. But don't worry, they also had plenty of times for riding the horses and relaxing!
We have sure enjoyed our summer dinner and I thought I would share these recipes with you as they were easy, tasty, but most importantly I didn't spend all day in the kitchen!
BBQ Beef Roast
Ingredients:
- 3T Ranch roast - I have used brisket, but you can also use Chuck, Tri-Tip, Sirloin Tip, Eye of the Round, Round roasts or Round steaks
- our roasts are typically 3-4 lbs
- 1 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce
- we like Sweet Baby Ray's
- 1 cup of Coke
- do not use diet
- 1 tablespoon of Chipotle in Adobe Sauce
- use just the sauce, not the peppers
- you can also use Chipotle Sauce
- 1/8 cup of Weber Chicago Seasoning
- 1 red onion - thinly sliced
Directions:
- For this recipe, I used InstantPot to save time!
- Cut the roast in quarters, it cooks more evenly and faster.
- Sprinkle 1/8 of a cup of Weber Chicago Seasoning all over the roast.
- Mix BBQ sauce, Coke and Chipotle Sauce.
- Put the roast and onion in the InstantPot and pour over your liquid mixture.
- Lock the lid and move the pressure valve to sealing and set your InstantPot on Manual "High" for 60 minutes.
- When pressure cooking is complete, allow the pressure to release naturally for 15 minutes, then release the remaining steam by moving the pressure valve to venting.
- If you are using round steaks, your cooking time will be only 45 minutes, release naturally for 15 minutes.
- At this point I check on the beef to see, if it needs additional cooking. Brisket and Round Roast will need additional 15 minutes on Manual "High". Again, release naturally for 15 minutes. Other roasts should need only 60 minutes depending on the size of your roast.
- Take out the beef roast, trim any fat and shred the beef into bite-size pieces.
- Put your shredded beef back into the InstantPot, so it can soak up all of the delicious sauce. I typically, turn on the saute mode (no lid) and cook it for additional 5 minutes to heat through the beef.
- Now it is ready to serve!
Orzo Pesto Summer Salad
Ingredients:
- 16 oz Dellalo Orzo - use only 2/3 of the box
- 1/8 cup of homemade or store bought pesto
- 1 small yellow squash - cut up
- 1/2 cup of Queso Fresco - crumbled
- Handful of cherry tomatoes
Directions:
- Cook orzo per box directions.
- Saute yellow squash. (Sauted red onion would be also good in this recipe).
- Cut up your tomatoes, crumble your cheese.
- Put orzo in a big bowl, stir in pesto, cheese and veggies.
- Keep it in the fridge until you are ready to serve.
Jalapeno Cheddar Corn Muffins
Ingredients:
- 2x Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
- 2/3 cup of milk
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup of Cheddar
- 1/8 cup of chopped pickled jalapeno
Bake per directions on the box.
Karissa's Out of This World Brownies
Here is a link to the recipe:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/almond-butter-brownies-8830400
We had a wonderful evening, we hope you will try some of our recipes!
3T Beef Roast Leftovers - Roast Pockets
Well, we are on a week three on being at home and still adjusting to the always changing COVID-19 regulations and recommendations. We are typically home/ranch bodies end of March and April anyways, as it is a calving season for us and the Cowboss has to check on the mamas and the calves many times a day, but we do miss seeing our friends and family.
Calving season is a big deal on our ranch, we are very dedicated to make sure all of our mamas and calves have the best care. A good calving season will ensure that in two years, we will have enough animals to sell. Yep! This year's calving season effects our business in two years! Some days can be long and turn into evenings when a mama cow is in distress. I'm thankful that Scott is a season calf delivery cowboy and most of our births are pretty uneventful! We are expecting 60 calves this year and so far we have 15 little farts running around!
Since, our schools have been canceled, we have taken the opportunity to incorporate calving season into homeschooling. Even our little guy, Junior, who is 3, is now counting to 15 as he loves checking on the calves every morning and making sure they are all accounted for! Allie is very curious about the circle of life and how animals grow. (Future vet in the family?! It sure would be useful)! And our oldest, the Top Ranch Hand has been helping out with feeding the animals and fixing fence. Fixing fence is a never ending project, the good thing is that you really get to see every corner of the ranch pastures. He is learning that money is easily spent, but you have to do a good job at work to earn it.
I have been contributing to a smooth calving season in the kitchen. The cowboys are always hungry, especially after cold long day. Since, we are bound to be at home at least until the end of April, I have been trying and creating new recipes. Our grocery store has been out of stock for certain items, so I have been forced to improvise and really use up our supplies in the pantry, fridge and freezer. Nothing goes to waste.
We are big fans of beef roasts and last week I have made BBQ Pulled Beef for dinner, which was a hit. The next day, I wanted to make sandwiches for lunch for my crew, but the store was out of cold cuts and so I came up with beef roast leftover pockets. BBQ pulled beef leftovers were the perfect substitution. It was warm, easy and a crowd pleaser. You can use any kind of beef roast leftovers, this recipe is versatile. Scott teased me that the plate had a salad with a balsamic glaze.. We really are a Ranch Dressing family! ;)
Ingredients:
- 10 frozen dinner rolls (Rhodes)
- 1 egg, 1 tablespoon water for egg wash
Filling:
- 2 cups leftover beef roast - shredded and liquid drained
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar
- 20 pickled jalapeño slices
Directions:
- Put frozen rolls onto a baking sheet. Cover with a kitchen towel and let it thaw and rise for 2 hours. Don't go more than 2 hours the dough will be harder to work with.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Roll out each dinner roll into a thin circle.
- Put 1 tablespoon of shredded beef in the center and top it with 1 scant tablespoon of cheddar and top with two jalapeño slices.
- Mix 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of water in a small bowl.
- Brush egg wash around the edges of the dough.
- Fold over the dough and press edges together with a fork. (It is important that you drain the liquid from your roast or the pocket will not seal correctly).
- Put pockets on silicon or parchment lined baking sheet and brush the tops with the egg wash.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
I like to serve these beef roast leftover pockets warm with a fresh salad and yes, Ranch Dressing!
3T Beef Ramen
We had a couple of weeks earlier this winter, when the whole family was under the weather and beef broth was on the remedy list for colds. The hot broth or soup can help you ease any harsh cold or ache. My kids became big fans, especially when I started adding Ramen noodles. Our beef bundles include soup bones, which are perfect for making healthy grassfed/grass finished beef broth.
We hope you will try our recipe and your family will love it as much as ours.
Ingredients:
Beef Broth
- 2 3T soup bone packages (about 3 lbs)
- 3 large carrots - roughly chopped
- 4 stalks celery - roughly chopped
- 1 onion - roughly chopped
- 10 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
Directions:
- Pre-heat oven to 375.
- Cut up your veggies into large chunks.
- Put soup bones and veggies on a cookie sheet and mix with 1 tablespoon of canola oil.
- Roast in the oven for 45 minutes.
- I don't use any salt and pepper at this point as I want to be able to season my broth as I'm making other dishes with this delish liquid.
- Put your roasted bones and veggies into the Instant Pot.
- Pour in 10 cups of water and 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar.
- Seal the lid and set it for 120 minutes on high manual.
- Use slow release.
- Discard bones and vegetables and store your broth in the fridge. (You can certainly use the meat from the bones in this Ramen).
- The next day, your broth will have gelatin consistency and will have a thin layer of fat.
- When getting ready to use the broth for your Ramen, stir the gelatin broth to incorporate the healthy fat, so you can measure 3 cups of broth.
- The broth will last up to a week in the fridge or you can freeze it as well. I'm a big fan of using ice cube trays to freeze my broth in.
- You can use the broth in sauces, soups, drink it..
- Just two ice cubes of beef broth will bring a huge flavor to any of your dishes.
- Since the broth will turn into gelatin, I typically delude it with water.
Ramen
- 3 squares of your favorite Ramen (Costco or King Soopers have plenty of tasty choices)
- Veggies of your choice - cut into bite size pieces
- 1/2 onion
- 1 red bell pepper or 1 large thinly sliced carrot
- 1 zucchini
- 8 mushrooms
- 1/2 bok choy
- 1/2 cup of fresh snap peas
- 1 can (14oz) bean sprouts
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 3 cups beef broth
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 tablespoon salt to season the soup before serving
- 4 hardboiled egg
Directions:
- Cut up your vegetables into bite size pieces.
- Stir fry your vegetables in 1 tablespoon of sesame oil, after a couple of minutes add 1 tablespoon of canola oil.
- Stir ginger and soy into the vegetables.
- Taste it and use salt and pepper to taste.
- Heat up 3 cups of water and 3 cups of broth in a big pot.
- Bring to boil and put in three squares of Ramen noodles. (Cook per directions on the box. It doesn't take long).
- Mix your stir fry vegetables into the broth with noodles.
- Season with salt. I have used about 1/2 tablespoon. It is a big pot of soup.
- Serve with hardboiled egg in each bowl.
- Serves 4 people.
Dobrou chut!
3T Tamale Pie
It was a fun night at our 3T Ranch making this tasty dinner. It feels good to be back into the swing of things and our regular schedule. Don't take me wrong, we all love the holiday season, but we are more disciplined when we stick to our regular schedule and we eat better.
I sure enjoy when the kids want to help cooking dinner. Allie helped to measure the ingredients, Junior herded his cows around the kitchen counter and it makes my heart happy when Luke goes for seconds or thirds for dinner. The Cowboss added this meal to our "Family Dinner Rotation". I think they liked the Tamale Pie!
I hope you will try this recipe and have a fun family dinner evening. Sometimes, it doesn't have to be anything big, just happy people around the kitchen table to make a wonderful family memory.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 14.5 oz can of organic creamed corn
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 lb 3T ground beef
- 10 oz can of whole green chile peppers - diced up
- 1 packet of Taco Seasoning or you can easily make your own
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 15 oz enchilada sauce (We like Hatch Organic Red Enchilada Sauce)
- 1 cup of enchilada sauce will be poured over the partially baked cornbread
- Save the remaining enchilada sauce to serve with your baked dish
- 1 cup shredded Pepper Jack cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Serve it with - guacamole, sour cream, extra enchilada sauce, salsa, Spanish rice.
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a baking dish.
- Mix together the dry ingredients - cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt.
- Add the following to your dry mixture - egg, sour cream, creamed corn and milk.
- Pour the cornbread mixture into the baking dish.
- Bake for 25 minutes.
- In the meantime, cook your 3T ground beef, put in your seasoning. Your own taco mix or taco packet from the store is just fine too.
- Cut up the chile peppers and put in with the ground beef.
- Take the cornbread out of the oven. The cornbread won't be fully cooked, that is OK it will go back in the oven after the dish is assembled.
- Poke holes in the cornbread with a fork and pour 1 cup of enchilada sauce over it.
- Now comes the meat mixture and peppers and cheese.
- Put your dish onto a cookie sheet to avoid any messes in the oven.
- Bake for additional 15 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.
- Serve with Spanish rice, guacamole, sour cream, extra enchilada sauce and salsa. My crew liked pouring the extra enchilada sauce over their slice of tamale pie.
Dobrou Chut!
3T Cheeseburgers
We love cheeseburgers, weekly dinner for our family. In the summertime, we grill and enjoy a nice evening on our patio. The Cowboss is a pro! The rest of the year, I cook our cheeseburgers inside in my cast iron skillet. Low and slow is the key, on the grill as well as when cooking with the cast iron skillet.
Why are our cheeseburgers the best? Grassfed beef has many health benefits, but also a delicious flavor that gets enhanced by Dijon Mustard. That is our secret ingredient when making cheeseburgers!
We hope you will give this recipe a try!
Ingredients:
- 1 lb 3T ground beef
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
- 4 slices of Cheddar or PepperJack Cheese
Directions:
- Mix ground beef, salt, pepper and Dijon Mustard.
- Form 4 patties.
- TIP - make a round indent in the middle of the uncooked patty, so your burgers stay flat.
- Grill or cook in the cast iron pan on low and slow.
- Select your choice of cheese. The kids will always vote for Cheddar, but the cowboys love PepperJack.
Are you an Instapot user yet? This is my "go to" gadget these days. I use it at least three times a week. It saves time, but I really like how it cooks the beef. All of the beef cuts are nice and tender in a nick of time.
It seems like we went from summer to winter this year in one day. We are finishing up a few ranch projects before the Cowboss and the Top Ranch Hand bring the cows home. The cows have been enjoying the summer pastures and around Thanksgiving, we bring everyone home. During the winter we feed hay and yes.. even on those snowy cold days when schools and business are closed.. we venture outside to feed our herd. Then, spring rolls around and we keep a tight watch on the mama cows to make sure that we have healthy calves and healthy mamas. In early May, we load up the mamas, calves, yearlings and take them again to our summer pastures. The bulls have to wait until June 19th. Cows are pregnant for 9 months and by releasing the bulls on June 19th, we make sure that we don't have any winter calves. That's how the cycle goes on our ranch.
The Mexican Street Tacos are perfect for a busy night. You can get the dish prepped in less than 5 minutes and let it cook while you finish up your chores or homework or like us, finish setting up concrete forms.
Ingredients:
- 3-4 lb round roast or 1-2 round steaks (depending on size)
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of pepper
- 1/2 onion - sliced
- 1 red pepper - sliced
- 1 can (10 oz.) whole green chile peppers (no liquid)
- 1 can (7.76 oz.) La Costena Chipotle Salsa (you can find it by the enchilada sauces at the grocery store)
- 1 cup of water
- 1 bunch of cilantro
Directions:
- If you are using a round roast, quarter the roast, this will ensure that your roast will be tender and cook faster.
- If you are using round steaks, just put the cuts into the instapot.
- Beef is in the instapot, now salt, pepper, onion, green chile and red peppers go in.
- Pour Chipotle salsa over the meat.
- Pour 1 cup of water around the beef. You want the Chipotle salsa to say on top of the meat.
- Seal per instapot instructions and cook for 60 minutes on the "meat/stew" setting for round roast and 45 minutes for round steaks.
- When cooking is complete use slow release.
- Shred the beef and the green chile peppers and put back in the instapot, so the beef can absorb the tasty sauce!
- Serve with tortilla, shredded cheese, chopped up cilantro and rice.
Beef Enchilada Pasta
April gives us just enough taste of the warm spring weather and then we get hit with another snow storm! As I'm typing up this recipe, the snow is coming down really hard and we are expecting another blizzard. Many businesses are closing down for the day and I wouldn't be surprised that schools will call a snow day for tomorrow. We sure do need the moisture after a very dry summer last year. I will be happy about the green grass later this year, but it is cold and snowy right now.
Our new favorite recipe on days like today is Beef Enchilada Pasta. You can make it mild or as hot as you like it. Since, we have little guys, I went with the mild version today.
You can use ground beef for this recipe, but I think it really adds POW flavor, if you cook up the ground beef chorizo.
Ingredients:
- 1 lbs of 3T ground beef or beef chorizo
- 1 box of your favorite pasta
- 1 chopped up medium size onion
- 4 finely chopped up garlic cloves
- 1 chopped up bell pepper
- 1 cup of your favorite salsa
- 15 oz can of Hatch Organic Red Enchilada Sauce
- 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 bunch of chopped up cilantro
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
- Cook pasta per box directions.
- Saute onion, garlic and pepper, stir in ground beef or chorizo and cook until done.
- I typically use my pasta pot as it is big enough to stir in the rest of the ingredients.
- Stir in pasta, garlic, onion, pepper, ground beef, salsa, enchilada sauce and cheese. Heat through, so the cheese is nice and melted.
- Taste it! Does it need more salt or pepper?
- Sprinkle with cilantro.
- Ready to serve!
3T's Favorite Ground Beef Recipes
Sometimes life gets busy and having on hand some easy and tasty recipes can surely save the day. I’m thinking we need some weeknight dinner ideas to add to our meal plans, what do you think? For this post, I have decided to go with ground beef recipes. Ground beef is so versatile from burgers and pastas to delish casseroles. I know that if I'm in a bind, my ground beef package can be defrosted in 20 minutes (defrost in cold water). It is always a good idea to stock up on 3T ground beef to help you on busy nights. The recipes below are 3T's favorite recipes, the cowboys love it, the kids love it, hungry teenagers love it. I have even served the Sloppy Joes during a ladies' dinner party and it was a hit. You can buy 3T ground beef on our website or at Wheat Ridge Poultry and Meats. We hope you will give these recipes a try! Let us know what you think. We love seeing photos from our customers cooking with 3T beef.
No Sugar Marinara Sauce
I have created this recipe earlier in the summer and it has been a major game changer for our pasta and pizza dishes. My Cowboss challenged me to eliminate sugar from our savory dishes. You would be surprised how sneaky sugar really is and how many recipes or marinates call for sugar that is really not necessary. When I first started to look into homemade marinara recipes, many of them included sugar to offset the acidity of the tomatoes, so I needed to find a substitute. After a few failed recipes, I have hit the jackpot with sautéed shredded carrots that gave the sauce the much needed sweetness. The best part of this marinara recipe.. it is done in 30 minutes. You don't need to cook it for hours. The carrots give it the nice sweetness and the beef broth, which is an important ingredient, gives it the depth of flavor you need in a good pasta sauce.
I have been making delicious "red sauce" dishes like spaghetti squash with southwestern beef sausage, cheese cannelloni with marinara sauce and ground beef and this sauce is hands down awesome on homemade pizzas. This recipe makes enough red sauce for two family dishes. It last for a week in the fridge.
Over the summer, we have also teamed up with a great family owned business Wheat Ridge Poultry & Meats and they carry our 3T Ranch beef at their store. Rob and Jess are wonderful business partners and they have extended the line of 3T Ranch products that are now available to our customers. WRPM carries various cuts of 3T beef, but also make many varieties of beef sausages, jerky and beef broth.
I hope you will try the recipe and love it as much as we do.
Ingredients:
- 28 oz fire roasted crushed tomatoes
- 6 0z tomato paste
- 2 large shredded carrots
- 1 medium onion - small dice
- 1/2 garlic head - crushed through garlic press
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 3-4 cups of beef broth
- 6 basil leaves finely chopped or 1 tablespoon of homemade pesto
Directions:
- In a large pot pour olive oil, saute onion and carrots until onions are translucent, add garlic and cook for a couple of minutes.
- Pour in crushed tomatoes and tomato paste. Make sure to stir to break up and incorporate the tomato paste.
- At this point I like to include all of my seasonings.
- Pour in 3 cups of beef broth. Cook it down for about 15 minutes.
- You can certainly leave the sauce chunky, but my family likes it smooth, so I pure the sauce with my immersion handheld blender.
- Add your basil or homemade pesto. (Tip - I store my homemade pesto in ice cube trays. It is the perfect portion and it stores well in the freezer).
- I typically end up pouring another cup of broth into my sauce unless I'm using it right away as a pizza sauce. Cook the sauce for another 5 - 10 minutes.
Dobrou Chut!
Beef Tacos for Busy Summer Nights
Are your summer days packed with activities and dinner becomes a big headache? The 3T crew is busy with ranch construction projects, fixing fences, transporting cattle to summer pastures and the kids have their own summer activities. Plus, we have decided to get not one, but two puppies.. I know, who does that? Their parents are great cattle working dogs and we could always use help to work our cows. So, I don't know about you, but by dinnertime, I'm pretty tired.
Here is an easy summer recipe, so you can enjoy dinner on your deck or patio. Nobody wants to spend a couple of hours making dinner. Even better.. The InstaPot or CrockPot will do the cooking for you in this recipe, so you can enjoy a Margarita while dinner is cooking on its own!
Ingredients:
- 3 lbs 3T Ranch Beef Roast (you can also use flank or skirt steak)
- 1 tablespoon dry oregano
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon ground pepper
- 1 diced medium sweet onion
- 1 diced bell pepper
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 4 chopped garlic cloves
- 1 can (7.76 oz) LaCostena Chipotle Sauce or Chile in Adobo Sauce (if using Chile in Adobo Sauce - use two peppers and scrape out the seeds, then use all of the sauce from the can and discard the rest of the peppers It would be too spicy to use all of the peppers).
- 1 cup beef broth (2 cups of beef broth for CrockPot version)
Directions for InstaPot: Preferred 3T method
- Cut up your roast into bigger chunks. (I think the beef cooks better vs just putting in the whole roast).
- Set your InstaPot on "sear" and pour in 1/4 cup of canola oil.
- Dry off your beef chunks with a paper towel and season with salt and pepper.
- Now, that the pot is hot, sear the beef chunks on all sides. Take out the beef.
- Time to sauté the onion and bell peppers. Give it a couple of minutes to sauté the veggies before adding the garlic. You don't want the garlic to burn. Cook until all veggies are tender.
- TIP: if your onion is getting a little burned before being tender add a little bit of water to the pot.
- Add oregano, one can of Chipotle Sauce and one cup of beef broth and stir all together.
- Beef goes back in the pot, close the lid and set your InstaPot on "Beef Stew". Depending on your InstaPot setting, your beef will be done in about 60 minutes. If you are using steaks, you can cut down the cooking to 35 minutes.
Directions for CrockPot: This recipe
- You can certainly use CrockPot for this recipe as well.
- Dry off your beef chunks with a paper towel and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat your skillet and add 1/4 cup of oil.
- Sear the beef in a skillet on all sides. Take out.
- Time to sauté the onion and bell peppers. Give it a couple of minutes to sauté the veggies before adding the garlic. You don't want the garlic to burn. Cook until all veggies are tender.
- TIP: if your onion is getting a little burned before being tender add a little bit of water to the pot.
- Put in the CrockPot - oregano, one can of Chipotle Sauce and two cups of beef broth and stir all together.
- Beef goes in the CrockPot.
- Set you CrockPot for high for 4 hours. (I don't like to cook my beef on low in the CrockPot. I think the beef gets too dry on the low setting).
- Make sure to check your liquid levels during cooking.
Beef is done, time to serve it to your crowd. You can certainly shred the beef, but we do like the beef in chunks. You can cut the beef into bitesize chunks. The beef is juicy and tender, you can discard the sauce the beef was cooking in. (Or you can certainly skim off the fat and reduce the liquid in a sauce pan. It will have a kick. The beef on its own is not spicy). I typically serve the beef with rice, guacamole, salsa, pepper jack cheese and Costco uncooked flour tortillas. I know it adds another step to your cooking, but it is so worth it! And if you really want to step it up.. Here is a recipe for Homemade Corn Tortillas!
Homemade Corn Tortillas:
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups masa harina, more for dusting
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons fat such as melted lard, butter or canola oil
- 1 cup hot water, plus more as needed
Directions:
- Place masa and salt in a bowl and throughly combine with the fat, mixing with fingers or a whisk. (KitchenAid works great for this). Slowly stream in the water while mixing until the dough comes together into a ball.
- Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 1 minute.
- Divide the dough into 12 portions and form each into a smooth ball.
- Place masa balls on a baking sheet, cover with plastic, rest for 30 minutes.
- After the dough has rested, preheat a cast iron skillet over medium-high for 5 minutes, then reduce heat to medium.
- If the dough has dried slightly during resting, wet hands and roll each ball again to moisten. Place the dough between two sheets of plastic wrap and place directly in the center of the tortilla press. Press down firmly, then durn the tortilla 90 degrees and press again.
- Transfer it into the hot skillet. Cook the tortilla until brown spots appear on the bottom, about 1 minute. Flip with a thin metal spatula, and do the same on the other side.
TIP: Sur La Table has many great gadgets how to keep you tortillas warm while you are cooking the rest. The homemade tortillas might sound intimidating, but they are really easy. I have taken a class at Sur La Table with my friend and the tortillas were piece a cake to make and the flavor was amazing!!
Dobrou Chut!