Thursday, April 10, 2008

Indian Chapati

I really like Indian food and especially the breads that in my mind should accompany each spicy meal, even if you are using knife and fork...
Chapati are a very easy bread to make, because all you need in flour, water and salt. For one batch that made around 6 chapatis I used 1 cup of water, 1 tsp salt and then added enough flour to make a nice dough, around 2 cups.

Since there is no yeast in this dough, it does not need to rise, which again makes it really fast.
Take is small piece, in the size of a walnut and roll it out to a thin circle. You want it fairly thin, like you would a pizza dough.
To bake/fry it place the dough on a dry hot pan. You want to turn as soon as you see small bubbles form. When it pops up, squeze it flat until done.
Keep them warm on a plate under a towel until serving.

I had these together with a nice spicy chicken curry... Highly recommended!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry hound you on this but can you use whole wheat flour is these as well? They look great!

IHOB said...

Thanks. Yes, you can. I actually used only whole wheat on these ones, though I would suggest that you use half regular flour. Using half regular flour will make your chapatis softer.