Monday, August 17, 2009

Ragi Roti

Ingredients
Ragi flour - to make the dough.
Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup.
Coriander - 1 bunch (cleaned and finely chopped).
Onions - 4 (finely chopped).
Curry leaves - finely chopped.
Green chillies - finely chopped (according to your taste).
Salt to taste.
Sugar - little
Water.

Method
Mix coconut, onions, curry leaves, green chillies, coriander leaves, and salt properly with little water.
Add the ragi flour with some more water and mix properly so that it mixes with other ingredients (This dough should be like chapati dough).
Set aside for some time.
Put some oil on tava (cooled tava). Roll small portions of dough to form medium sized roti. Apply oil around the roti and bake at low flame till it is done.
Eat the ragi roti with delicious pudina chutney.

Palak Roti

Ingredients
1 bunch of Palak leaves
1/2 inch Ginger
3/4 Green Chillies (this one can be really spicy)
A small bunch of Coriander Leaves
Ball of Tamarind
2 tsp Jeera
Salt to taste
Flour for the Rotis

Method
Blanch the palak well i.e boil in hot water for 2 mins and put them under cold running water.
Grind all the above ingredients to as fine paste.
Mix this mixture with the flour and make a malleable dough. Roll out the rotis and applly ghee on both sides.
Can be served with Pickle or Dahi or you can have it with Tea as an evening snack.

Carrot Roti

Ingredients
Wheat flour 1 cup
carrot 4 Oz
Salt to taste

Method
Grate carrot.
Knead the wheat flour with carrot,salt and water.
Make small balls and roll into rotis
Cook on tawa. Spray pam on both sides
Serve with pickle and raitha.