We took the kids to this great restaurant the other day for dinner. We all had roti + dhal and every last lentil was eaten up. I decided that we should make roti breads at home. And then, I decided to employ the children to do this. Arlo's now old enough to do the cooking while K likes a spot of dough-kneading and both can roll the breads. We had an extra child around after school today to help in the making, and one batch of these disappeared within ten minutes.
I'm sure you can think of ways to eat these. As well as eating them plain or with a little butter, we've also paired them with this vegan curry/soup for dinner. Recommended for cosy autumn evenings.
This is how we make the flatbreads:
1 1/2 cups flour (you could use a mixture of different flours if you like)
1 cup boiling water
2 spoonfuls oil (vegetable, olive, etc)
Tip the flour into a bowl and add the boiling water and 1 spoonful of the oil. Mix together into a paste. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead for a few minutes. (Dough might be too hot for kids- in which case do this step before enlisting their help.) Rest the dough for about 5 mins. Then roll it into a large disk. Sprinkle this with the oil and let the kids spread it all over the surface. Then roll the disk up into a long roll (kind of like when you make pinwheel scones.)
Divide the dough into about 10 pieces. Meanwhile heat a large frying pan on the stove- it doesn't need any oil or anything like that. Flatten each portion of dough with your hand and roll into a flatbread. Doesn't matter how round/misshapen it is. Then fling it in the pan. It should only take about 20 secs to cook on one side. Then flip it over with tongs and cook the other side until it bubbles up and gets a bit browned. Continue until you have a plateful of flatbreads.
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