Chapati - Indian cakes - how to make chapatis at home, step by step recipe photos

Indian unleavened bread chapattis - a very simple, but tasty and filling pastries. They can apply to the first or second dish instead of bread, and can be supplemented with honey, cheese, cottage cheese, milk, and get a full independent meal.

In Indian cuisine is traditionally used whole-wheat flour (it melyat right before cooking of the grain on hand stone mills), and melted butter. If there is a good melted butter, you can use melted butter. For vegetable options chapatis fit any vegetable oil, but it is better to take a fragrant.

How to make chapatis at home

Cooking begin with, the hand or in kneaders (bread maker) factory fresh dough: 250 ml water, 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vegetable oil. We take 500 grams of flour, of which 200 grams of whole grain and 300 - the usual wheat premium. If there is no whole grain can be a pound of flour to add 2-3 tablespoons of bran, you get about the same.

Ready without yeast fresh dough wrap in plastic wrap and send in the refrigerator for awakening fiber for at least half an hour. While all except flour composition, proceeded quite normally, Indian motifs begin the formation of cakes and pastries. There are two options cakes chapatis: simple, when the dough is rolled out thinly, baked on a dry frying pan and grease with butter and flaky - more complex, but tasty and effective. We'll do the latter.

Prepare ripened the dough, flour for bedding and melted butter.

Cut the piece of dough the size, roughly, with a ping-pong table.

Roll out it into a thin pancake the size of a frying pan or grill, where we bake, grease melted (or vegetable) oil.

Now we will add greased dough in a certain way, I turned to puff in the final. First folded in half, the edges to the middle.

Now even doubled - so our dough has acquired four layers.

In the same manner (twice, the edges to the middle) down a four-tape in half.

and half again.

The resulting box in the 16 layers of wrap in plastic wrap.

The remaining dough, cut into the same puff pieces and send in the refrigerator, so that it is cold, and the layers were finally formed.

Roll out chilled dough pieces to size.

Bake chapatis on both sides of the dry tolstodonnoy frying pan or on a griddle-grilled.

But the best they can be obtained in Aerogrill that the temperature conditions closest to the stone hearth on which they bake fresh cakes housewives in India.

Prepared puff cake grease with butter and eat necessarily over the plate - crisp puff pastry breaks into light flakes that instantly melts in your mouth!

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