Basic Chapati Recipe

This is a quick and easy Indian flat bread recipe, served with a potato curry, these no fat flat breads are amazing! Show more

Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins

Yields: 6 Chapati's

Ingredients

  • 2 12 cups  atta flour, wheat flour can be substituted
  • 2  cups water (or enough to make a dough)
  • 1  pinch salt
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Directions

  1. Mix flour and salt.
  2. Make a hole in flour and mix in water, making a dough.
  3. Knead for five minutes, cover with wet cloth and refrigerate for an hour.
  4. Heat a flat pan (non stick pans are not good for this as repeated use at high heats with no liquid tends to crack the Teflon) until smoking hot.
  5. Roll out 1/2 a handful of dough into a flat round shape (3mm thick) and put into pan, cooking for 1 minute either side.
  6. Once turned press gently with a towel, until brown.
  7. Repeat and serve!
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