Baleadas

Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour
• Oil
• Lukewarm Water
• Salt
• Eggs
• Refried Beans
• Sour Cream
• Cheese
• Milk

Step #1: Get your apron on and prepare yourself to use your hands. Boil a cup of water and add into a bowl, 2 cups of all purpose flower.

Step #2: Once the water boils let it cool down a bit. DON’T PUT COLD WATER IT HAS TO BE LUKEWARM TEMPERATURE. If you add cold water you gonna make Playdoh.

Step #3 Once the water is at lukewarm temperature add little by little the water into the bowl and start using your hands to knead the flour. Knead the mixture for 10-15 minutes. Until it’s no longer sticky. Knead until your hands are red and your arms are about to fall off. Once you see the dough forming you are gonna start smacking your dough on the table. Don’t be scared of smacking the dough that’s the trick of making the dough soft.

Step #4 Once you have smacked the dough well. You will form about eight balls of dough and cover and let it rest for 20-30 minutes.

Step #5 While our dough is resting , we will start making the fillings of what goes inside the tortilla. You will grab a can of refried beans like the one below and put them in a pan and a little bit of water to make them soft. Or you can make your own refried beans at home, I’m just trying to save you some time.

Step #6: Now you will make your scrambled eggs. You will get a pan and add some oil and in a bowl crack about 4 eggs and whisk, to make your eggs fluffy add a bit of milk. Once the pan is hot with the oil add your eggs and start stirring them until they cooked.

Step #7: Now heat up your comal. If you don’t know what a comal is, there you go:)

Step #8: Now you will grab your dough and start stretching it until it’s a big thick tortilla. And add it to your hot comal make sure you flip the tortilla. DON’T BURN THEM. If your tortilla rises and it makes bubbles that means is cooked and you made it with love. That’s what I’ve heard people say.

Step #9: Now you will spread your refried beans, add your eggs, add your sour cream, add cheese. Fold it, and Bon appetit

Baleadas is one of my favorite foods, it comes from Honduras. I learned to make this dish because my parents would always crave Baleadas but it was rare for people to sell them unless you went to a Honduran restaurant, however, there wasn’t any around the area. That inspired me to learn how to make them. I would go on YouTube and watch videos on how to make them. At first, they weren’t as good as I expected them to be. As time passed by I started to get better at making them, they would taste so good and soft. And it brought joy to my heart seeing my family enjoy them.