How To Make Soft Savory Roti With Dahl
- 250 grams self-raising flour
- 0.5 teaspoons baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoons salt
- 150 milliliters hot water
- 2 tablespoons flour for dusting the counter top
- 70 grams yellow split pea flour or yellow split peas
- 0.5 teaspoons cumin
- 0.5 teaspoons turmeric
- 1 Chili pepper
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 shalot
- Combine the self-raising flour, salt, baking powder and water
- Stir the mixture
- Knead the mixture with your hands into a cohesive dough
- Let is rest for 1 hour
- For the Dahl filling. Add hot water to the yellow split pea flour and stir thoroughly
- Add the Kurkuma and stir again
- Let is rest for at least 10 minutes
- Add the clove of garlic, pepper, shallot in a mortar and pestle. Grind until a soft paste starts to form
- Add the cumin and grind so more. Then set aside
- Bake the pepper mixture shortly and add the Dahl until almost all the moisture has evaporated (do not make it to dry)
- Shape the dahl into small balls
- Take the dough and knead thoroughly. Divide into 4 to 5 balls the size of a large golfball
- Take the roti ball and add the dahl filling in the middle of the dough ball. Close the dough around the dahl and then roll the roti on a dusted counter top
- Heat pan and bake the roti without oil
- Wait for the roti to rise then start brushing the roti with oil and turn
- Brush the back side with oil as well
- Turn regularly until light brown patches appear and then you are done
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/72550-how-to-make-soft-savory-roti-with-dahl (may not work)