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Tortillas have fat (lard or vegetable shortening) and leavening (baking powder) typically, and from what I recall roti have neither.
I am not an expert on either, but I did grow up and live in NM where our tortilla sections are larger than our bread sections in the grocery stores.
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Texture and taste are different. Flour tortillas are somewhat airy due to a leavening process and they also tend to have a very mild sweetness.
They’re the same thing
Lmao no. Besides both being round flatbread, roti and flour tortillas are not at all similar.
I only had roti in India and all I remember is saying “this is a tortilla” to my coworkers there.
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They have a different texture and mouth feel and taste. Also roti (or rather chapati which is the type of roti most similar) is made with just flour and water and sometimes oil. No leavening or anything or salt. Chapati is also much more stretchy and robust.
Yum, they look great! This makes me want to try my hand.
You should probably use dough. Your hand would get severely burnt. /s
But why butter at all?
Because butter tastes amazing, not everyone likes using lard, or pork products in general.
My excuse is lard and vegetable shortening is hard to get here. My reason is butter is great.
A vegetarian option?
They can be made with oil, but my oil ones never really set up properly.
Maybe try vegetable shortening for a veggiesaurus version? Might set up better than oil.
Right. If something needs saturated fats I don’t automatically switch to oil because of those kinds of reasons
I think it’s pretty common to make flour tortillas with some incorporated fat, unlike corn tortillas.
TIL that tortillas are made with fat. Always thought its just flour, water and salt (and maybe yeast or something)
Isn’t Bordier butter all about texture and generally good for earing on its own like on breads etc.? It may be a waste to cook with Bordier butter, just use a good quality butter and that’s all. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I don’t know what Bordier butter is, but my wife and I get really fancy Irish or Amish butter, and I have recently had to start insisting that we keep some regular non-premium butter around for just this reason. It feels wasteful to grease a pan with super-fancy premium butter, or to use it in certain recipes.
They sell cook’s butter (called «Brut de Baratte») which is about half the price and really nice to work with.
I see.
![[Homemade] Flour Tortillas. Possibly the first, possibly the only, tortillas made with Bordier butter.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2484ce11-51ee-4131-96ed-47c5c0633811.jpeg){kind=link}