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Tandoori Roti
April 25th, 2009 filed under Breads
Tandoori roti is made with whole-wheat flour and traditionally cooked in a clay oven or tandoor. This recipe uses a regular home oven with pizza or baking stone witch provides a similar effect to the tandoor.
Recipe make 4 Rotis
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour (maida)
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoon oil
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- About 1/4 cup of water as needed
Also needed:
- 1/4cup whole-wheat flour for rolling
- 2 tablespoons ghee (clear butter)
Method:
- Mix the flour, baking soda, sugar, and salt together.
- Next add the oil and yogurt and mix to make crumbly dough.
- Add water as needed and mix to make smoother dough.
- Knead the dough for about a minute. Set the dough aside and cover it with a damp cloth.
- Let the dough rest for at least 30 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 500 degrees with a pizza stone (baking stone) for about thirty minutes so the stone becomes hot. Using a baking/pizza stone will help to give roti close to same kind of heat as tandoor.
- Next turn the oven to high broil.
- Divide the dough into four equal parts.
- Roll each dough piece into a smooth ball and press flat. Take each ball and press it into the dry flour on both sides makes it easy to roll.
- Roll each dough piece into 6-inch circles.
- If the dough sticks to the rolling pin or rolling surface, lightly dust the dough with dry flour.
- Before putting the rolled dough into the oven, lightly wet your palms and take the rolled dough and flip them between your palms before placing them onto your baking/pizza stone in the oven.
- You can place about 2 pieces of rolled dough on the baking/pizza stone at a time. The roti will take about 2 minutes to cook, depending upon your oven. After the roti is baked, there should be golden brown color on top.
- Take roti out of the oven and brush lightly with clear butter (ghee).
- Wait for 2 to 3 minutes before baking the next roti to allow the oven to reheat.
- Serve the roti hot
Serving Suggestions:
Serve roti with dal, or any gravy base dish and a side of sukhi subji complimented with chilled yogurt raita.
Hello Manjula aunty
Where can I buy the pizza stone.
Thanks in advance for your quick reply.
from Target or sears for abt 10$
hi aunty,
i have been making rotis in cooker all along..they cum out gr8. thought i will try ur recipie in Oven, but my rotis came out very hard.. i did preheat the oven for 30 min at 500 deg . Also in ur reciepe u add baking soda to the rotis, is it for the reason that we r making it in oven?
Manjula, THANK YOU !!!! you are GREAT! the recipes work and delicious!!!!!!
Namstey manjula ji,
thnks very much again .
my hubby is a grt fan of indian food
would like to give you and your website a very big thank for posting such a gud recipe for tandoori roti , i tried this and it turned out very well .
have tried so many dishes from ur website all rocks
mamran
Hello Manjula aunty,
At the outset, I would like to thank you for all your delicious and easy to make receipes.
I have a question regarding “Tandoori Roti”. I have a punjabi friend who had made roti’s in a pressure cooker. She had 1st heated the pressure cooker, applied water to one side of the roti. The water applied side of the roti was stuck to the inner side of the pressure cooker. The pressure cooker was then kept upside down for the roti to bake. I tried this menthod but the rotis eventually get stuck to the side they were applied water on. Any suggestions.
Regards,
SHALAKA DEB
hi shalaka,
i myself have been making the tandoori roti the same way. All u need to do is heat the side of the cooker 1st where u r abt to put the roti ( the side of the cooker on flame), then let the cooker be like that for abt 30 sec so that roti cooks frm down. then do the other sides. I generally make 3 rotis at a time. and believe me,,.. they never have stuck.. hope this helps.
Your recipes are too good. I am so inspired seeing your cooking. Want to try this one at home. Can you please advise as to where can we get the Pizza stone?
Hello Manjula Maam,
I would first like to thank you for so many great recipes. I have tried couple of your recipes and you have made it really easy for me to follow it. A million thanks!
I have a question Manjula Maam, regarding tandoori roti and tandoori naan. I have an (ALL Clad Pizza Stone), I can only bake this stone in the oven at a maximum of 450 degrees farenhite, I was wondering if you can share any tip, should I increase number of minutes I bake the roti/naan?
My husbands 30th. birthday is on the August 15th and I am planning to bake naan and roti for the dinner, your advise will be greatly appreciate.
Thank you once again and I hope to hear from you soon.
Have a nice weekend, Maam.
P.S. (Could you share the recipe for Louki(Doodhi) Kofta)
Thank you,
Regards,
Meenakshi
Hi Manjula Aunty,
I followed your recipe for tandoori Roti and it turned out AWESOME!! The softest and the tastiest rotis….Thanks so much for the recipes and videos……My entire family loves watching your videos..
Hello Aunty, I have got a gas aluminium tandoor as a gift. But there is no instruction manual . Kindly help me to use it to make different veg dishes including roti.
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