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Roti finds its way in our Menu daily. ( No make it every other day!). They are such a simple bite of goodies to one’s health and esp. during dinner, they are light yet filling as opposed to rice.

There is no dearth for the variations in making roti’s and amongst many is this one which my mother used to make esp during when the season for red noses starts. You can increase/decrease the spices as per your taste and I have given what suits our family the best. This is a nice aromatic and spicy (not hot )roti as compared to plain ones and with Channa masala it tastes heavenly.

Ingredients
  • 2 cups wheat flour

  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 1/4 tsp Ajwain Seeds (carom seeds)
  • 1/4 tsp pepper powder
  • 1/4 tsp garam masala ( or curry powder )
  • salt to taste
  • few springs of cilantro leaves, chopped
  • 1/2 cup warm milk

Method

1.Combine the flour with the spice and salt. Add the cilantro leaves and mix well

2. Add milk and little water to knead it into a pliable dough. It should be neither too soft ( not sticky at all) and neither to hard. The Roti consistancy.

3.Keep it aside for 15 min and then divide the dough into small rounds.

4.Shape into rounds ( or any shape you desire) by using a rolling dough on a floured surface.

5.Then place the prepared roti in a heated non stick pan. Add a tsp of Masala Oil / oil and then cook it for 2-3 min.

6. Turn when brown spots start appearing. Cook further for another 3-5 min.

Serve hot, plain or with little butter with any gravy’ish side dish. We enjoyed it with Channa Masala.

This is first one of my entries ( yeah Valli – planning to bombard u with more) for Roti Mela hosted by dear Valli from Cooking 4 all seasons.

A sniff at fellow Marathon runner’s kitchen tell me that

1. Siri makes an Unspell’able ( Is that a word!) but delish looking Spinach Pastry

2.Valli makes the best companian to curd rice – Dahi Mirchi

3.Ranji kickstarts with a luscious Blueberry Muffin

4.Kulchas are my fav and Laks makes me drool like no tomorrow with her Onion Kulchas

4.Making Jams at home can be so satisfactory. Arundati think so too with her Grape Jam

5. What would I not do for Paneer! Its my eternal fav and you can guess my state of mind when I saw Swati’s Shimla Mirch Paneer Burji How I wish I could put my hands through the screen to her dish!

6.I am yet to try my hands at using Sour Cream in Baking. Divya’s Sour Cream Cranberry Muffins just draws me in to try them soon.

7.Nothing like stocking up on your stock. I feel that too and so does Bhags

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12 Responses to “Spicy Roti”
  1. Jyostna

    Hey Dhivi , I thought i was innovative when i made Ajwain roti last week.Its very healthy and definetly tastes yummy…My daughter likes it a lot…this time i will try the other spices that u have added.Your website is very tempting…shit man !!! this is the 3rd time i have burnt my food…my tomatoes turned carbon by the time i browsed all varities of roties…i have to quickly redo it…its 8:00 already :( :(
    OK…let me drop this last comment…ur gulab jamuns were AWESOME…..i hardly get good jamuns with ready made mix itself..god only knows what would happen if i start doing it from scratch like u….good going Dhivi.Hats OFF to ur amazing patience level. I have this silly doubt whenever i browse ur site…who will eat all these yaa..?? U bake such big loaf breads , cakes , i hope u r not putting on weight with ur own recipes..:) I guess u do mix and match of experiments and not try the same group variety until one is done…am i right ?? okies ..lots of brain eating here…sorry …i should get going now…otherwise my daughter and husband will go cranky now !! All the best Dhivi.

  2. Cham

    This spicy roti is for me DK. I need to try this version …

  3. bhags

    Nice spicy variation for the roti…i need to make some other version soon and send it as well….

  4. Srivalli

    wow …looks lovely!..thank you..send more..its a challenge!

  5. Shubha Ravikoti

    Iam for sure gonna try this…. Love the poodle of butter in the last pic….:P

    Amazing pics…. just makes it more awesome..

  6. Cynthia

    I am definitely going to make this.

  7. Sukanya Ramkumar

    Hi DK….
    Spicy roti looks so good. That was a different recipe. I can imagine the aromas of spices in the roti when they are tossed. Love it…

  8. Uma

    yeah, yeah, my kind of roti! Thanks for making them dk! Wait, I am coming over. So you opened your bowl of roti(entrie)s with a spicy beauty, waiting for more!

  9. Lisa

    I’ve only just begun to explore Indian breads. Despite the amount of Indian cooking I do, I’ve made very few Indian flatbreads, though I was inspired to make stuffed parathas for this fantastic event. I was impressed with the result.

    Love your rotis!

  10. Hetal

    This is a very good way to take a break from eating plain rotis…I too make it sometimes.

  11. Swati Raman Garg

    you have spiced it up really well haan dhivya.. i too make it d same way…ur pics r always so tempting…

  12. Siri

    my mama used to make these all the time. normal rotis are boring at times. Spicy roti looks yummy Dhivs..:)

    Siri

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