Culinary Experiments : Restaurant Style Tandoori Roti, without tandoor!!

TANDOORI ROTI

What's your goto bread with delicacies in restaurants - mine varies from kulcha to butter naan to tandoori roti.

For people like me who used to survive solely on restaurant food - lockdown is quite a bummer - it has indeed forced one to step into the kitchen and at least give a shot to those restaurant like dishes. Home cooking comes as, quite a saviour in tough days like these. 🙏🏻

Usually certain recipes gain a lot of buzz on social media and this was one of them - TANDOORI ROTI without use of tandoor. 

After hunting a variety of recipes on the internet - I gave this a try - and of course I had mommy expert , to rectify my mistakes. 🙈

Tandoori Roti - a round flatbread enjoyed with dry/gravy sabji.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat flour - 2 cups
• Maida - 1/2 cup
• 2 tablespoon of malai
• 4 tablespoon of curd or more if required
• Salt as per taste
• Oil 
• Chopped coriander leaves
• Sesame seeds
• Sugar - 1/4 teaspoon
• Ghee as required

RECIPE WITH STEP BY STEP PICTURES:

Prepare the dough with maida and wheat flour in the proportion of 1:4.

Add 4 or more tablespoon of curd, water as required, salt per taste, a tablespoon of oil , 1/4 teaspoon of sugar and malai and kneed a soft dough.

Slather some oil all over and cover it with a muslin cloth and allow it to rest for 30 minutes or so.

Now roll into oval or any desired shape.

Apply some chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle few sesame seeds atop - now run the roll pin gently, enough to ensure that the ingredients stick through. Don't apply too much pressure.

Now gently flip - damp your hands or use a brush and evenly apply water all over. This side goes down on the heated tawa.

Into the preheated tawa now.

Plain tandoori roti.

After about 2-3 minutes, when you see sufficient bubbles coming up - it is time to flip the tawa. Now carefully keep rotating the tawa over the fire - ensuring all the sides cook properly. You will notice if you would have applied water evenly - the roti would stick to the pan. 

I would suggest keep tongs handy incase they fall out - you could try and heat them directly over heat.

Once you take the tawa off the heat - you will see this!😍

Apply some ghee atop - this will help it to be consumable later as well. It would keep the tandoori rotis moist - and a little ghee doesn't hurt - in fact it is very good for health.

I prepared assortment of plain and coriander seeds & sesame seeds tandoori roti - my lunch was sorted. 😎

 Recipe courtesy barring sesame seeds idea - foodandflavours

~Bon Appetite !!

P.S All pictures have been photographed by moi. 😊