the golden kitchen

Tortillas have to be the easiest type of bread you can make. If you have opposable thumbs and a rolling-pin, then basically you’re set. And if you like the idea of an alternative to the white flour tortillas you buy ready-made and packaged in plastic that have a strange and vaguely sweaty and acidic smell, then you’re gonna love what I got up to in the golden kitchen yesterday. I suppose seeing as they’re made with wholemeal flour they’re closer to an Indian paratha or flatbread than the usual corn or white flour Mexican tortilla. I’ve made these and called them flatbread to go with curries, but here I’m going to use them to wrap stuff in, so I’m calling them tortillas. Don’t judge me.

And of course, the beauty of them being a wrapper is that you can fill them with whatever you can think of. I’m not going to stand over you shoulder as you make that decision. They can become burritos, fajitas, wraps for leftover salads, the choice is yours. Enough rambling… here’s what I did…

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