Tortillas like in Mexico made in Quebec! (Video)

We visit our corn tortilla supplier. The tortillas are made like in Mexico but here in Quebec using the nixtamalization process. They contain only 3 ingredients: corn, water and lime. Lili chats with Roberto at the Sherbrooke tortilleria.

Tortillas like in Mexico made in Quebec!

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Hello, everyone!

Today we are in La Quebequita with our tortilla supplier.

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So, Roberto, please tell us about the process of making tortillas.

– Actually, the goal we had was to make the real tortillas, as they are made in Mexico.

So, we buy corn kernels.

They are cooked with a little edible lime and water.

They are left to soak overnight.

It’s called the nixtamalization process.

Afterwards, it gives a grain that is not completely cooked, but a little more tender.

That’s where we leave to spend all this at the stone mill.

The stone mill will make us a paste with moisture

that are used to make tortillas.

– Ok and if we keep them in the fridge, how long can we keep them?

– In the fridge, it can easily last a week or 10 days.

Otherwise, it freezes well too.

You just have to keep the tortillas in a plastic bag so that they keep the moisture in, otherwise they will dry out.

It’s kind of like chopsticks.

– Ok, perfect.

You make the tortillas from the masa, but could we make something else with the same dough?

– Yes, in fact, we sell fresh dough here at the tortilleria.

Many people use it to make “tamales”.

You can do “gorditas”, “sopes”.

Even, there are drinks, like a kind of hot chocolate, but it’s made with the dough.

Yes, there are several options.

We also sell corn here, for the “pozole”.

We sell fresh dough, frozen dough.

People can use it to make “sopes”, “quesadillas”, “gorditas”…

The “pupusas”, too, are made with the dough.

Don’t worry, soon, we’re going to make recipes with corn dough on our website.

You can watch the videos to process the same dough that Roberto makes to make the tortillas.

Also, don’t forget that if you come here to La Quebequita to buy your tortillas, we also have our product.

We have our product individually that you can also buy with the fresh tortillas to have a weekend of Mexican tacos.

Is there anything you’d like to say to all tortilla customers?

– We hope you can come and taste the real tortillas.

What we currently find everywhere in Quebec are tortillas that are made from corn flour.

It is a flour that contains preservatives, many other chemicals.

On the other hand, our tortillas, we only have three ingredients:

water, corn and a trace of calcium.

These are the ingredients we use.

The goal was this: to show Quebecers a real tortilla, as we usually eat it in Mexico.

– That, really, the taste of La Quebequita’s tortilla, that’s the real taste of Mexico.

Just like Mexicans eat them every day when they go to get tortillas at the “tortilleria” in Mexico.

Thank you very much!