Step by Step pics! Ranikabani's Chappatis (roti)

[love4culinary]

Last night I made my potato and zucchini curry, and decided to use Rani's chappati recipe instead of my own...and They were SOOOOOOO AWESOME!!! I liked them so much that I made more today and took pics of the whole process! The reason I did this, is because its often very difficult to learn how to make chappati, so I thought maybe making a step by step "guide" may help, along with her EXCELLENT instructions!

After the dough has rested for an hour, you divide it into balls, according to how big you want your chappati..



then you roll it out into approximately a 6 inch round.. and brush it with melted butter



Then you fold it in three, like a cylinder, and then fold the sides in to make a "pillow" of dough



Next, you roll it out again into a flat round (mine arent completely round b/c I like them to a look a bit more rustic, so I roll them and then stretch them with my hands)



then put a small amount of melted butter into a heated cast iron pan or fry pan, and add the flatbread (swish it around a little). When it starts to look "translucent" like so



drizzle in some more butter and flip it over.

It will start to puff up when cooking, like so



Then swish it around some more, until little brown specks start to turn up



Just flip once more to brown the other side (Do NOT keep flipping, only flip those 3 times).

The end product should look something like this



And with my meal



Hope you enjoyed the "show"

[JustJanS]

You make me believe I can do this too! So I put the recipe in my cookbook!

[Dorel]

Very good demo and pictures

[WaterMelon]

wow!! thanks L4C! that's awesome! saved to cookbook and this topic as well... I love chappatis with fish/mutton curry... (drooling all over keyboard)

here's a link to Ranikabani's Chappatis (Roti)

[Ranikabani]

Wow! I was just reading throught the Talk subjects and I saw this..and I said "heyyyyyy! that's MY recipe! "

I wonder if there's some way to load those pics onto the actual recipe page...any tecchies out there???

Glad they turned out well for you love4! I love chappatis with curry but I also like them with a bit of butter and sugar (confessions of a chappati freak).

MMM now I'm hungry.

Thanks for taking the time to show us the steps in living colour, Love4! I appreciate that!

[WaterMelon]

Ranikabani wrote:
Glad they turned out well for you love4! I love chappatis with curry but I also like them with a bit of butter and sugar (confessions of a chappati freak).

MMM now I'm hungry.

Thanks for taking the time to show us the steps in living colour, Love4! I appreciate that!

I used to eat rotis like that all the time, when I was a kid. I can eat 4 in one sitting!! Still love it, but of course prefer curry. (still can eat 4 in one sitting! )

[canarygirl]

AWESOME Love4!!! You should have this stickied as a class! --And post the series or a link in the classes thread in Q&A!! Great job!!!

[chia]

great instructions and photos, love- good job!!

[love4culinary]

Thanks for the compliments! I really couldnt have made these as well as I did without the help of Rani's instructions!! I've made chappatis sooo many times before that we've enjoyed, but these just went ABOVE AND BEYOND our expectations... they were DELICIOUS, perfect texture, and very easy to work with

[love4culinary]

canarygirl wrote:
AWESOME Love4!!! You should have this stickied as a class! --And post the series or a link in the classes thread in Q&A!! Great job!!!

you think I should? Maybe I should "improve" on it a bit I think I'll do that thanks for the idea!

[love4culinary]

WaterMelon wrote:
wow!! thanks L4C! that's awesome! saved to cookbook and this topic as well... I love chappatis with fish/mutton curry... (drooling all over keyboard)

here's a link to Ranikabani's Chappatis (Roti)

thanks for linking for me I was so excited about what i was doing that i totally forgot to mention the recipe # LOL...yikes! thanks a lot

[HeatherFeather]

This is great - I added this link to the Cooking Classes thread.

[peppermintkitty]

Good job, Love What a great way to give instructions....I loved it thankyou ...Kitty

[love4culinary]

HeatherFeather wrote:
This is great - I added this link to the Cooking Classes thread.

Thanks sweety!

[Bruins Fan]

Thank you so much for the step by step pictures. I have often thought of making these myself but having never seen it done...Anyway now I think I will try it.