How To Warm Tortillas

Steps to Warm Tortillas in a Steamer

To warm tortillas in a steamer, follow these steps:

Boil water in the bottom part of your pan.

Wrap a stack of tortillas in a clean dish towel and place in the steamer basket. Boil for 1-2 minutes. Make sure the water does not touch the towel and the towel does not touch any heat source.

Remove the pan from the heat and let the tortillas sit in the covered pan for about 15 minutes to allow the entire stack to be heated through.

Use this option to warm tortillas if you need to feed a crowd. With this way of warming tortillas you can heat an entire stack at once and let them sit and remain warm while you prepare the finishing touches to the rest of your dinner. Fix & forget – my favorite way in the kitchen!

How To Warm Tortillas

Steps to Warm Tortillas in the Microwave

To warm tortillas in the microwave, follow these steps:

1. Wrap a small stack of tortillas (2-6) in a damp paper towel.
2. Microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

Use this option to warm tortillas if you are in a hurry and just need enough tortillas for yourself or your family dinner. The tortillas will come out soft and pliable and great for rolling a burrito but will cool off about as fast as they warmed up.

How To Warm Tortillas

Additional Info

A great way how to steam tortillas, blanch vegetables and cook pasta, is to use a Stainless Steel Muti-Cookware Set pot with a strainer insert and a lid. This is really a submersion pot, like for cooking corn on the cob, but it can also double as a steamer as long as you watch the water level to be sure that it starts underneath the insert and does not boil dry during the steaming process. But since how to heat tortillas involves only a minute or two over the boiling water this is not a problem.

Another way to both warm a stack of tortillas and then keep them warm throughout dinner is to invest in a tortilla warmer. Here’s one that is both functional and festive.

To find out how long tortillas last, visit our tortilla page.