Homemade Roti Chapati
Roti is a tender, essential Indian flatbread recipe that uses only 3 ingredients. Our surefire method for making roti yields delicious perfectly puffed bread. You’ll love serving this with curries and dunking into our delicious Dal tadka. For best results, check out all the tips and tricks below to make great tasting, perfectly puffed bread each time.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups Atta / whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup additional Atta / whole wheat flour for rolling and dusting
- 1-1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp oil or ghee
Instructions
- 1
In the mixer bowl of your kitchen aid, add whole wheat flour
- 2
Attach the dough hook attachment to the kitchen aid
- 3
Lock the hook knob and start the mixer at speed 2
- 4
Pour all the water slowly and keep alternating between speed 2 and speed 4 as the dough starts forming.
- 5
Once the dough is formed, add oil to the dough and let it knead at speed 1 for one minute
- 6
Once the dough is ready, divide the dough into 12 equal parts and roll to make dough balls.
- 7
Cover it with a cloth and rest it for 10 minutes.
- 8
Your Dough is ready to make roti’s / chapatis
- 9
Set aside the additional flour in a bowl to use it for rolling and dusting
- 10
Work on one dough ball at a time
- 11
Roll the ball in the dry flour and shake off the excess flour.
- 12
Lightly flour the work surface to use for rolling the roti.
- 13
Place the dough on the work surface and flatten with your palm.
- 14
Use a lightly floured rolling pin and roll out the dough to around 1/6- 1/8-inch-thick round roti with a diameter of around 6 to 7 inches.
- 15
Apply flour to the dough as you feel necessary while rolling the roti.
- 16
Repeat the process for the remaining dough balls
- 17
Keep the rounds covered while working on the balls one a time
- 18
Put a tava/ skillet on the stove and let it pre-heat medium- low heat
- 19
Dust excess flour from the rolled roti
- 20
Place it in the center of the hot tawa
- 21
Wait for 10- 15 seconds till you see bubbles on the surface.
- 22
Once the bubbles form, flip the roti
- 23
After 20-25 seconds you will see bubbles on the other side
- 24
Use a pair of tongs to flip it again and transfer the roti to an open flame.
- 25
You will see the roti puff up slowly.
- 26
Flip again to cook the other side and remove from the heat and place it in hot case.
- 27
Repeat it with rest of the rolled dough.
- 28
Making Roti/Chapati and puffing it on a open flame
- 29
here's how you can make roti - chapati on tawa and putting it directly on flame to puff.After instruction number 6Remove the roti from the tawa using a tong and place it directly on flame with the first side (which is little less cooked) directly on the flame. It will puff up like a balloon remove it from the flame with the help on a tong.