Roomali Roti
By: Mythreyi Dilip
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 2:36am

Ingredients




1 cup Wheat flour
3 tbsps Clarified Butter
3/4 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Water
1 no Egg( optional)

Preparation

1 Swift flour and salt together in a large bowl. 2 Beat the egg well. 3 Add the clarified butter and beaten egg to the flour mixture and combine well with fingers. 4 Add water to the flour mixture in small quantities while mixing with the hands. 5 Once a smooth dough is formed, stop adding water and continue to knead the dough for 10 mins. 6 Cover the dough with wet cloth and set aside for 20 mins. 7 After 20 mins divide the dough into lemon sized equal balls. 8 Heat tawa or a griddle on high flame. 9 Roll out each lemon sized dough into to very thin rounds with rolling pin. 10 Place rolled out rotis one at a time on hot griddle, cook for a minute and turn the roti on other side, cook for another minute and remove from heat. 11 Fold the rotis like kerchief and serve with hot curries of your choice.