Eating a strict diet is hard. Whether it is for health reasons, weight loss, allergies or intollerances, its a challenge. My family really loves to eat Hispanic food. We especially love tacos, burritos, and fajitas. Often we run into a problem of finding a tortilla that is gluten free and can be rolled into a burrito of soft taco. The cost of gluten free tortillas are are so much, fall apart, and in many cases, don’t taste good. I decided to go on a mission to find something we all can have. Since being on an elimination diet to heal my gut, I can’t have some of the grains that are used in gluten free items, so I decided to check out my options.
I happened to stumble upon a recipe for flaxseed tortillas, by Thethingswellmake.com. I was a little skeptical about it, but knew that flaxseed has a gel like consistency so thought, hmm, why not give it a try. I followed her ingredients, however I chose to do a different method of making them. I use already ground flaxmeal added my salt before rolling the dough out. The recipe is exceptional and I really recommend this to everyone to try. Flaxseeds have amazing benefits and should be a part of everyone’s diet.
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So give these tortillas a try. They are super flexible, soft, and taste great. Kid and husband approved.
Enjoy.
Flax Meal Tortillas
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup water
- 1 cup Flax meal I used golden, but you can use either one.
- 1/2 tsp salt I used Pink himalayan salt.
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil and then add salt.
- Once salt is dissolved, add flax meal and turn off the heat. Mix until it forms a dough ball.
- When cool to touch, break flax dough into 4 equal pieces.
- Roll out each piece until thin on parchment paper, using parchment on bottom and top of flax dough to keep from sticking to the rolling pin.
- Take a round bowl and place on top of rolled out dough, cut around the edges to make them round. Place extra dough in a pile to make last tortilla.
- After all your pieces are rolled out and cut, move them to your pan. Over medium-high heat, place flax tortilla in pan. If you have a non stick pan, you will not need to spray it. The oils in the flax will keep it from sticking.
- Press tortilla down with a spatula for 30 seconds, flip and then repeat to the opposite side.
- Place tortillas on cooling rack or plate. Serve warm or cold, they keep their flexibility which makes them versatile.
These are great! Thank you! I had to add a bit more flax meal but they worked great to roll out after that. Nice low carb substitute for bread, tortillas, crackers and maybe even pizza crust. Quite tasty?❤️?
Wonderful. I am glad you liked them. It’s always nice to have more options for bread.
it’s a great recipe and it results a beautiful bread. thank you for informative blog
I just tried these with Bob’s Red Mill Brown flaxseed meal and pink Himalayan salt, but I cut the water to 1/3 cup and the flax meal to 1/2 cup and half the salt too. I wanted only 2 tortillas… however, using my cast iron tortilla press I discovered enabled me to still make 4 eight inch tortillas but they are nice and thin! I didn’t use parchment paper either, I cut three sides off of a one gallon zip lock bag and placed the meal ball in between the bag layers and then pressed it! Wow! They come off super easily that way! Because the first one stuck to the parchment paper so I remembered this trick. Now they will have half the carbs and half the calories too! Amazing!
I am thrilled to have found your website and this recipe. Could you kindly advise how you determined the calories on these?
Cheers!
I looked it up on nutritionix.com and put in the amount for flax meal. It comes out to being about 552 calories for all 5 small tortillas. Dividing them would give about 110-111 calories per small tortilla. It is about 6g of carbs per tortilla.
Thanks for this recipe. I made these in the oven to minimize my handling of this sticky, sticky dough and they turned out well. After rolling the tortilla out, I cut the excess parchment paper away, and popped the tortilla, still on its parchment paper backing, into the oven at 350F for 4 minutes. After that first cook, I removed the parchment paper backing (easily), flipped the tortillas, and returned them to the oven for one more minute. I got 7 7″ tortillas out of this recipe, but I rolled mine quite thin.
That is an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing with us.