Home made crunchy taco shells are excellent! you will never buy taco shells again! But be prepared to be the last one to have a chance to sit down and eat.
Take 200 grams of maize flour and 100 grams of wheat flour through a sieve into a mixing bowl.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
Pour in some hot water,and start to knead.
Add more hot water and continue kneading until a smooth dough,the dough should have the consistency of modeling clay.
Then cut the dough into 10 equal sized pieces using a knife (or use a kitchen balance to weigh out pieces of about 50 grams).
Form small dough balls rolling the dough pieces between your palms.
Dust the working station with some maize flour and start to roll out the dough balls using a rolling pin,until thin and flat.
Use a bowl to cut out perfectly round sheets of dough.
Prick the dough sheets multiple times using a fork.
Heat up a pot or wok adding 1 – 1½ liters of frying oil (carefully give a small piece of scrap dough into the oil, as soon as it bubbles and begins to foam, the oil is hot enough)
one by one carefully give the prepared dough sheets into the hot oil.
Gently turn once with the help of 2 kitchen spatulas as soon as they float to the oil surface.
Then fold 2 opposite sides of the Taco Shells with kitchen spatulas and keep on frying until the shape is hardened.
Then carefully lift the Taco Shells out of the oil, drain briefly.
Allow to cool completely on kitchen paper.
Ready to be used with any filling of your choice.
With ROTIMATIC
Take 200 grams of maize flour and 100 grams of wheat flour through a sieve into the flour bowl.Add crushed carrom seeds in flour bowl(optional)
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and Luke warm water to the water container .
Select settings Puri, Thickness:1,Roast:1,Oil:2.
Prick the puri sheets multiple times using a fork.
Heat up a pot or wok adding 1 – 1½ liters of frying oil (carefully give a small piece of scrap dough into the oil, as soon as it bubbles and begins to foam, the oil is hot enough)
one by one carefully give the prepared dough sheets into the hot oil.
Gently turn once with the help of 2 kitchen spatulas as soon as they float to the oil surface.
Then fold 2 opposite sides of the Taco Shells with kitchen spatulas and keep on frying until the shape is hardened.
Then carefully lift the Taco Shells out of the oil, drain briefly.