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Cooking For Dummies : How to Make Chappathi?


Ingredients: (To serve for 2 people)

Wheat Flour                             : 1-1/2 Glass
Salt                                          : ¼ -Teaspoon
Butter(If available)                    : ½ Teaspoon
Water                                       : 1 Glass
Oil                                            : 2 Teaspoons

STEP 1 : Add Salt to the Water and Stir Well
STEP 2: Add Wheat Flour & Butter to a Wide Bowl
STEP 3: Add a little water to the wheat Flour (1/8th of Glass)
STEP 4: Mix Wheat Flour with Hand (Feel Good Massage for your fingers & hand!!!)
STEP 5: Repeat Steps 3 & 4 above till wheat flour turns into a dough

Caution : Don’t add The water all at once…Unless you want to DRINK a wheaty SYRUP

STEP 6: Leave the Dough for 30 minutes
STEP 7: Make small  balls of the Wheat Dough
STEP 8: Take a ball and dip in Plain Wheat Flour to get a coating
STEP 9: Make Flat & Round wheat dough using a Roller …(Wheat Floor coating in STEP 8 needed to prevent dough to stick to the Roller)
STEP 10: Place a Tawa(Pan) on the Stove
STEP 11: Heat it to Mild Temperature
STEP 12: Fry the Flat dough on the Tawa…
STEP 13: Add ¼ teaspoon of Oil around Wheat Dough for a better fry
STEP 14: Turn around the chappathi to fry on the other side