Indian Recipes

MISSI ROTI RECIPE

January 22nd, 2008

Ingredients:

Begal gram flour- ½ cup

Wheat flour- 1 cup

Soya flour- ¼ cup (optional)

Ginger, green chillies paste- 1 tsp

Turmeric powder- ¼ tsp

Salt- as required

Fresh fenugreek leaves- ½ cup

Oil for frying & for the dough- 2 tbl sps

Preparation Method:

1. Sift all the flours together.

2. Mix turmeric powder, salt, oil and blend well with finger tips.

3. Chop fenugreek leaves, sprinkle little salt and keep aside for 10 minutes.

4. Squeeze out the moisture from fenugreek and add to chappathi flour.

5. Mix ginger chilli paste also and knead like a chappathi dough using just enough water.

6. Keep the dough closed for ½ an hour.

7. Roll out thin chappathis using wheat flour for dusting.

8. Preheat the electric tawa to 2100 C.

9. Place a chappathi on top, cook on both sides using little oil for roasting.

10. Serve hot with tomato chutney or any gravy.

Variation:

Use finely cut palak instead of fenugreek leaves.