Baked Sopes Recipe

Ingredients

• Golden Masa Harina Corn Flour

  Bob's Red Mill

  2 cup or 227g

• Salt

  Table

  ⅔ tsp or 4g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 ¼ cup or 296g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tsp or 5g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  100g

Directions

1. Add masa harina and salt in a large bowl. Mix together with a spoon.
2. Pour hot water and olive oil into the bowl and mix together until all the water is absorbed.
3. Using your hands, form the dough into a big ball. The dough should be firm and springy when touched, not dry or super sticky. If the mixture is too dry, add more water in small amounts until the dough is springy and holds together.
4. Place the dough ball in the bowl and cover it with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap. Let the dough rest for 20 minutes. This will help ensure that all the water gets absorbed.
5. Divide the dough into 14 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball with the palms of your hands and place them in the mixing bowl. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap to keep the balls moist while you're working.
6. Open a gallon-sized zip-top storage bag and cut the seams on each side so that it makes one large rectangular piece of plastic. Alternatively, you can use two large pieces of parchment paper.
7. Open a tortilla press and lay the plastic (or both pieces of parchment paper) inside of it so that it covers the upper and bottom parts of the tortilla press. (see photos in post for examples)
8. Place one dough ball in the middle of the tortilla press, close the top and gently press to flatten it out. Open the tortilla press and peel back the plastic bag (or parchment paper) to transfer the tortilla to your hand.
9. Preheat oven to 400F. Transfer the sopes to 2 large baking sheets and bake for 5 minutes to fully cook the sopes.
10. Serve the sopes with desired toppings like beans, cheese, ground beef, shredded chicken, shredded lettuce, salsa and enjoy!
11. Recipe by: Isabel Eats (source: https://www.isabeleats.com/authentic-3-ingredient-mexican-sopes-thick-corn-cakes/)