Akki Roti

Akki Roti is made of Rice flour and is my daughter's favourite. It is a very healthy dish that can be served as breakfast or snack. They are crisp on the outside and slightly chewy on the inside.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Rice Flour
• 1/4 cup Dill Leaves chopped
• 1 green chilli finely chopped
• 1/4" piece ginger finely chopped
• 1/2 tsp Salt (Adjust to taste)
• 1 Carrot grated
• Water (as needed to make the dough)
• Oil to cook the Akki rotis

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients except oil to form a dough.
2. Divide the dough into small balls and heat a skillet.
3. Apply some oil on the palms of your hands and take one of the dough balls flatten it on your palm.  Don't make it too thin. It can be a 1/4" thick.
4. Place it on the skillet and apply oil on the roti.
5. When it turns slightly golden brown at the bottom, flip it and add some more oil till the other side too turns golden brown. Cook it till it becomes crisp and golden brown on both sides by adding more oil if needed.
6. Serve hot with pickle!

Variations

1. If you don't have dill leaves, you may replace dill with 1/4 cup chopped cilantro and 1/4 tsp ajwain in this recipe for a different flavour and aroma.

Suggestions/ Notes

1. My Akki Rotis are small, about the size of my palm as it is easy and less messy to make it that way. In case you want to make big Akki Rotis, take a Ziploc cover/ plastic sheet and rub it generously with oil and flatten the dough to make a big circle. Carefully peel it off the Ziploc sheet and place it on the skillet.

Aloo Paratha

This Aloo Paratha is everybody's favourite in my house. I learnt this recipe from a caretaker of the hotel where I stayed when I was in UK. It is such an easy recipe that will never fail you.

Ingredients
For the Paratha:

• 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
• Water as needed
• Pinch of salt  
• oil to cook the paratha
• 1/4 cup whole-wheat flour for rolling

For the Potato filling

• 2 medium potatoes
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 chopped green chili
• 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
• 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
• 1/2 teaspoon amchoor powder
• 1 teaspoon chat masala
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ajwain

Method

1) Mix flour, salt and water together to make a soft dough. Cover it and allow it to stand for 30 min.

2) In the meantime, boil and peel the potatoes and add them to a bowl.

3) Add all the ingredients for the potato filling to the bowl and nicely mash the potatoes with the spice mixtures.

4) Divide the dough into 8 small balls (approx) and divide the potato filling into 4 small balls (approx).

5) Take 2 dough balls and roll into two 3" circles as show below.

6) Take a portion of the potato mixture and spread it on one of the rolled dough.

7) Cover this dough with the second rolled dough.

8) Press and seal the edges of both the rolled dough firmly.

9) Apply some dry flour on both sides and slowly roll into a disc of about 8 inches or till the sealing and the filling stays intact. Add more flour while rolling and keep flipping and roll on the edges first before doing the center.

10) Now put the rolled aloo paratha on a hot griddle.

11) After a few seconds add oil to the paratha and flip it over.

12) Again, flip the paratha and lightly press the puffed areas with a spatula. Add more oil and flip again and press with the spatula making sure the paratha is golden-brown on both sides.

13) Serve hot with a blob of butter on top and pickle or curd.

Suggestions/ Notes

• The Spices/ herbs add to the potato filling can be varied according to your taste. You could even add coriander seeds, pomogranate seeds, kasuri methi or just any spice of your choice.