Akki Roti
a popular breakfast dish of Karnataka
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice flour (chawal ka atta)
- 1 large onion, finely chopped (pyaaz)
- 1 cup grated carrots (gaajar)
- ½ cup chopped coriander leaves (hara dhaniya)
- 2 green chillies, finely chopped (hari mirch)
- 1 tbsp cumin seeds (jeera)
- Few curry leaves, chopped (kadi patta)
- 1 tbsp oil (tel)
- Salt as per taste (namak)
- Oil to cook the rotis
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add a cup of rice flour.
- Add chopped onions, grated carrots, chopped coriander leaves, chopped green chillies, cumin seeds, chopped curry leaves and salt.Mix well using a spoon.
- Now, add water gradually and knead to make a soft dough.
- Once the dough is ready, add 1 tbsp oil and knead again for few seconds.
- Take a small portion of the dough and place it on butter paper.
- Shape the dough ball into a thin flat roti using your fingers.
- Lift the roti alongwith the butter paper and flip it on a hot pan.
- Gently take off the butter paper.
- Drizzle about 1 tsp of oil around the roti and allow it to cook.
- Flip the roti and cook it on the other side.
- Allow the roti to cook evenly on both sides.
- Remove it from the pan and serve with orange coconut chutney or tomato coconut chutney or tomato chutney.
Notes
- Rice flour can be replaced with finger millet (ragi) flour or multigrain flour in this recipe.
- Any veggies of your choice can be added to the flour.
- The dough ball can be patted on the butter paper/parchment paper/greased banana leaf.