Yellow Maize Flour and Fenugreek Leaves Indian Breads
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 cups yellow maize flour (Makkai, available at any Indian grocery store. Maize is Spanish for 'Corn', so a regular corn flour )
- salt
- red chili powder, to taste
- 1⁄2 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 cup fresh fenugreek leaves, cleaned, washed and finely chopped (methi)
- 1 -2 green chili, washed, ends trimmed and finely chopped
- hot water, to knead, as required
- oil or ghee, to fry
directions
- In a bowl, sift together the maize flour, salt, red chili and coriander powders together.
- Add green chillies and fenugreek leaves to the bowl.
- Mix well.
- Add hot water, as required, and knead the mixture well into a dough (similar to how you make puri dough).
- Pinch off small rounds of the dough.
- Use a rolling pin and make beris on a board dusted with flour (like you make rotis), about 4-6 inches in diameter.
- Use ghee/oil and hot water to flatten them gently and carefully.
- Fry the beris on a hot tava (non-stick griddle) using a teaspoons or two of ghee or oil and spreading it all over each beri.
- Serve hot with mango pickle and buttermilk on a cold winter night to enjoy it to the max!
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