Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Preparation of Chapathi

Ingredients:

6 cups sifted whole wheat pastry flour
or 1/2/1/2 whole wheat /all purpose flour
2 tsp. Salt
6 tbsp. Vegetable oil

1-3/4cups warm water,
plus more as needed
1 cup, melted ghee or clarified butter

Methods:

  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour and salt.
  2. Sprinkle in the oil and rub it into the flour with your hands.
  3. Make a well in the center of the flour, pour in the water, and mix together by hand until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
  4. Turn out onto a lightly oiled surface and knead for 15 minutes.
  5. Clean out the mixing bowl, butter it lightly, and return the dough to the bowl.
  6. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a damp dish towel and let the dough rest for 2 hours.
  7. Divide the dough into 36 pieces, then work with only 3 pieces at a time — the chapatis should not dry out before cooking.
  8. With lightly floured hands, roll each piece into a ball, flatten slightly, and place on a lightly floured surface.
  9. Roll out the dough into evenly flat 6" rounds. Roll out two more chapatis, then begin to cook.
  10. Heat a cast-iron griddle over medium-high heat, then place a chapati on the griddle.
  11. Cook for 30 seconds, then flip it over, cook for another 30 seconds and flip again.
  12. The chapati should puff up and become freckled. When this occurs, remove it from the griddle to a towel-lined basket, brush lightly with ghee or clarified butter, and cover to keep warm.
  13. Stack the breads on top of each other. When the first three are done, reduce the heat under the griddle and roll out the next 3 chapatis; then turn up the heat and cook them. Continue rolling and cooking, rolling and cooking, until the dough is gone.

Preparation of jalebi

Ingredients

200 gms. plain flour (maida)
20 gms. gram flour (besan)
200 gms. sugar
few drops yellow colour
2 tbsp. milk
ghee to deep fry
a plastic easy squeeze bottle

Method

  1. Sieve 100 gms. maida and besan together.
  2. Make a batter using warn water.
  3. Keep aside for 24 hours.
  4. Add remaining maida and food colour and more warm water if required.
  5. The batter should fall easily when poured - Not too thick not too thin.
  6. Keep aside.
  7. Make syrup of the sugar by adding water and boiling.
  8. Add the milk and all the scum to form while boiling.
  9. Make one string syrup. Strain.
  10. Fill bottle with batter. The nozzle should have a hole the thickness of a knitting needle.
  11. Heat ghee well in a shallow frying pan and form jalebis in the form of concentric circles about 2 inches on the outside.
  12. Fry till crisp, drop into hot syrup. Drain with a perforated spoon, serve hot.

Chapati is served with meat and vegetables, while Roti Prata can be taken plain, with eggs, onions etc. Jalebi is a fried sweet dipped in sugar, while You Tiao is a long deep-fried dough, without any sugar

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