Indian Staple Food- Let's Make Famous Indian ROTI - fff
This is my dinner tonight.
This is what North Indians eat in breakfast, lunch and dinner. It consists of one vegetables and Roti, some pickles and papad(optional components).
Roti
Roti is the heart of every North Indian. Something we eat three times a day. Some people two at a time, some three and some even four. It is made of wheat and making it is an absolute ART.
Mind me -
Roti making is an Art
So much so it is almost compulsory for every girl to know how to make a perfect round roti to feed her husband before she gets married, haha, I am serious. Though the society norms are changing, but if you cannot make a roti - your husband would also feel bad. So getting hands on Roti is a big respectful task for young India women
This is
Roti
Let's see the art of Making Roti
You need Wheat flour.
It can be multi grain flour as well and many other kinds of flour can work but wheat flour is the basic popular flour. An authentic Indian Roti can be made in wheat flour only.
Make the batter:
Now this is my gas stove - you will particularly need one of this free to cook Roti.
This is TAVA. A utensil\tool which is must for cooking roti.
Now you take some of the batter as a ball. You take another round of dry flour in a plate and you soak your batter ball in the flour. Then you put the dry flour all around the batter.
Put some dry flour on the ground where you are going to roll the roti. The purpose here is to make sure the Roti does not stick to the rolling ground\base.
Now you see in the pic BELAN and Roti Batter Ball.
Belan is a famous tool in Indian Kitchen. Can't do without it literally, roti is impossible if you do not have a belan. Belan is made of wood and it is a famous hand tool for every Indian mom - they threaten their child with it, lol.
Now you will gently roll the roti in a very consistent manner, easy and gentle here making sure it does not stick to rolling ground, making sure it is not inconsistent, making sure it is round too :P
Then when your Roti is rolled out nice and evenly put it over the Tava. The Tava should be hot, so you need to switch on the gas stove beforehand so that the Tava gets hot, the Tava is made of Iron. Then you let the roti get cooked on slow heat here until brown patches start coming on it. Then you flip it with Chimta.
Another Indian Kitchen Tool - CHIMTA (tongs). No Chimta, no roti
Now you put the Tava on one side and switch on the other gas stove. Then keep flipping the roti ad cook it.
Now Roti is cooked enough and put some ghee(a kind of Indian's oil that is considered very healthy and we consume it everyday) on it.
Tadaaa, your roti is ready :)
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It is art indeed and it looks very tasty also:) The batter from what is made? I want to know everything,lol
hehe yeah such art. Batter is made from wheat flour :p
Wow! Directly on the flame!
Belan looks like a rolling pin.
In the US, wives threaten their husbands with this :))
hahahahha yeah belan is rolling pin.
so funny that wives threaten their husbands with it :P
I think it's a weapon of choice for the ladies.. hahaha..
Handy and effective .
Ha! We also have Roti's here and they are indeed delicious, especially with a nice filling.
I am so glad my mom never had a Belan, otherwise I would be dead today hahaha.
Blessings!
yeah roti with fillings are amazing, we called them stuffed parantha.
hehe :p
I can't make up my mind if that is a roti, or a chapati bhehen.
hahahaha roti or chapati bhehen, I am so amazed with your knowledge about Indian termology :P
Acha, danyavad, I lived in India for six months and then visited twice more over the years, during my training at the ashrams, particularly in Vrindavan near New Delhi. The babajis there were showing me the way back to godhead.
Were you in the Iskon Temple in Vrindavan? so many foreigners there.
Nice, do let me know if you come back to India,:P:)
Yes, I was in the foreigner temple, gaura mandir. I came to learn from the locals, but am still a barbarian lol. I will let you know when I make it back.
still a barbarian lol, let me know when you come back :)
Awesome!!! You make this look so easy too. I often use tongs and a flame like that to heat up our tortillas. Maybe one day i can try my hand at roti. It only looks delicious. Of course anything bready is delicious in my book :). Happy food fight @vibesforlife
wow good to know you also use tongs and flame for tortillas, try roti soon :)
Here we have something similar. We call them torrejas, they are fried and we usually eat them with a little sugar. Although they are a less healthy option than the rotis.
Torrejas looks nice, they look like Malpua from Indian Cuisine. Thank you for sharing it with me :)
I do agree that making roti is an art.. because whenever I tried it turned out to be. 'modern art'. Weird and samjh ke pare. 🤣🤣🤣
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ahaha yeah and that perfect round shape is such a dream.
I am good inuke, how about you?
How is the weather in Maldives?
Maldives, I think you meant Andaman.. :-)
It was awesome and I am gonna write about my adventures one of these days.
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yeah will look forward to it
Love roti, we called it roti canai, eat with dhal!
woaah you know Dhal too, nice nice.
Of course, it's one of our favourites too!
Your instructions are so easy to follow @vibesforlife. You’d be surprised at the amount of Roti and Naan bread you can get here in the UK—we just arrived here two weeks ago. It’s always a pleasure seeing you at #fff on Fridays, have a great weekend, chef!
Has anyone told you how gorgeous you look in your photos, particularly that dress—stunning! There, now someone has for sure! 😉
Wow roti and naan are in UK too, :):)
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What an interesting post, I love to see how other people from other countries cook, I am so American, that's how I cook, but since joining #fff I have learned to try some different recipes and as they say, expand my horizon. Thanks for sharing
wow, thank you for your beautiful comment farm mom :) glad you liked it :)
I did not understand, but how is the batter made? Just add water?
yes just add water and knead it.
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Looks delicious. Come cook for me.
hehe wish I could
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Interesting to see the traditional Indian way of cooking.
I learned how to make chapatis from my husband who lived in India for awhile, which seem similar to the Roti - What's the difference between the two? Does the one have
I did not have the Belan but I had the Tava (actually we just called it the chapati pan) and thongs.
I have a gas stove but I had never heard of finishing it off directly on the flames we just cooked it in the hot chapati pan flipping it over.
We make our own Ghee and love it on the chapati!
Thanks for sharing!
Oh interesting that you know about Chapati.
Chapati is a kind of Roti only, infact we use the term interchangeably.
I just searched on google about the difference between the two - its the cooking style as per google.
But we in India consider Roti and chapati same. The putting it directly on flame is the interesting and most important part for us :)
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Awesome post! Thats a really pro way of making roti. Impressive. Had to make roti for myself a lot when i was living in mumbai. Brings up wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing. Please do one on pranthas soon.
hehe yeah roti memories :P
Paranthas are maybe tough, I have not done it yet - maybe it easy.
But stuffed paranthas are surely very tough - cant make the stuffing go even. woooofff
Wow! I see how roti is made now. I have a friend in Hyderabad. Every time I visit I eat plenty of roti!
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Oh nice, you visit Hyderabad. Lots of Roti and Rice there. :)
Hey, nice to meet you on steem blockchain. You'r looking beautiful. I am from India and eat roti everyday in dinner and rice in lunch. You'r right, making roti is an art and if you are making it first time, believe me you will not be able to make it round. I tried one or two times, but couldn't make it round. There is also a reason, I don't take much interest in cooking activities. My bhavi cooks roti everyday.
Heyo, nice to meet you.
So right about the Roti science here, getting a round one is so tough, not possible in first shot at all :) :p