Question
Dawn O’Rourke
Do you recommend any particular vegan tortillas and any particular brands?
Answer
I lived in Texas for about 20 years, so tortillas are definitely something near and dear to my heart. We love to be able to make them at home, and we do a vegan version using oil as well, instead of like a traditional something that's meat-based that I can't think of the name of right now. But anyways, Siete is probably one of the ones that I would recommend that you're able to get across the entire country. Otherwise, making them yourself is probably best, but also, looking for a local purveyor of tortillas is probably my best thing that I can recommend doing. When I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, that was one of the first things I was searching for was a really good tortilla. In fact, secretly, every time my mom comes to visit me from Texas, she brings me a bag full of H-E-B tortillas, the flour tortillas that they make in-house at the grocery stores there. My kids still love them. To this day, they eat at least one to two a day, if we haven't made them, because they love the self-made ones a lot better. But when I first moved to Madison, I was definitely on the hunt for local tortillas and looking for that same kind of flavor profile that I was looking for. So started talking to a lot of different shops and different farmers, and finally found a couple that work really well for us that I can get either at the local co-op or farmer's markets as well. So I would probably look into doing that as well, Don. Looking into some of the local purveyors to be able to not only support your local ag community, but also looking for those local flavors, too. You can absolutely make your own tortillas. We have a couple different recipes in some of our courses, including the Plant-Based Pro course, showing how to be able to make tortillas. I think it might be in one of the other Pro courses as well, too. But yeah, the avoidance of lard in a tortilla is what I was trying to think of earlier. And you're not going to find those in a lot of commercially available tortillas like the Mission brand and stuff like that. Those are usually just a lot of different kind of chemicals in them instead of the shortening or the lards and stuff like that. But they're usually not as good as a normal tortilla should be. So Siete is nice because they have a wide variety of different things. They're an Austin-based company. They were, they've been bought out, I guess, two years ago. But their tortillas are pretty decent. So I would definitely check out that brand if you're nowhere near getting them locally into a farmer's market or something like that.
