Ragi Chapati

Planning healthy meal for family takes no much time if you have the passion for cooking, eating usual chapati everyday can be a very boring thing at times. So, I have combined ragi with atta flour to make Ragi Chapati today. My first attempt didn't fail me, it turned out to be a very tasty chapati and most importantly healthy.

Now let us look at how I made this;

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of atta flour

1/2 cup of ragi flour

1 cup of water

2 tbsp of oil + 1 tsp oil

A pinch of salt

Take a bowl, add salt, butter, ragi  and atta flour with half cup of water, knead the dough well incorporating all the ingredients. Then add the balance half cup of water, knead well until the dough is soft and smooth. Adding ragi to atta flour knead a little more water compared to atta flour alone, you must knead the dough well so that when you toast the chapati it wouldn't be so hard. Apply around 1 tsp oil to the well kneaded dough and cover with cloth.

Roll dough into small balls and roll with a chapati 

roller to spread out the dough like chapati

Toast both side of the chapati on a pan over medium flame

Now our Ragi Chapati is ready to be served with your preferred curry, keema or kurma

Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Chapati

Chapati is one of our favorite dish for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is much more healthier to eat chapati to rice which is very high in carbohydrate. Every family and every cook have their own recipe for soft chapati, now let me share my version of it.

Ingredients:

2 cups of whole wheat flour/ atta
2 tbsp of butter
1 tbsp of oil
Water

In a bowl, add flour and butter then mix well, now add in water and knead the flour to form a soft textured chapati dough. It takes approximately 1 cup of water for to get the perfect consistency of the dough. I do not add any salt to the dough because I have added butter. Once done apply the oil to the dough so that it doesn't dry and cover with cloth.

Divide dough into equal small balls and roll into nice round shaped chapati

Toast the rolled dough on a griddle

Flip to the other side and make sure both sides are toasted well, press the 

chapati with a clean cloth so that the chapati will be puffed

Now our chapati is ready to be served, I have served my chapati with sardine peratal

Stuffed Chapati My Mom's Signature Dish

I love my mom's cooking, what ever she cooks she does it with full of love and usually prepares everything according to family's preference. I was a very picky and fussy child when I was young, mom have to tolerate me so much when it comes to food. I complain to almost everything she makes, she used to tell me you will know when you have your own kids, I just hate it when she says that. 

Things changed even before I was married, to be precise when I left home to study. I used to miss all her cooking especially dishes I used to hate once, when I go back home for every semester break mom used to make me lots of stuff I miss. Love you ma, you know what's best for me, thank you.

OMG, talking about mom got me carried away, now let me share one of my favorite which is Stuffed Chapati. I have never seen anyone else made this before apart from my mom and now I make this and sharing to my other friends all over the world.

Okay without wasting any more time let's check how my mom made this.

Ingredients:

Dough

1 cup of atta flour (whole wheat)

1/2 cup of water

1 tbsp butter

Knead chapati dough with the above ingredients making sure to pour a little water at a time to get the right consistency. Let it rest while preparing the stuffing.

Stuffing

1 cup of grated coconut

1/4 cup of dried shrimps (soaked and drained)

1/2 cup of shallots sliced

10 pcs dry red chili 

A pinch of salt

Pound all the ingredient above coarsely and keep aside.

Now comes the fun part,

Roll out the dough

Apply some butter on the flattened dough

Place in some stuffing

Fold in all four sides

Just like this

Roll the stuffed chapati to desired size thinner the better

 but don't tear the dough or stuffing will spill out

Now take the chapati and cook on a hot stone

Add some butter to both sides and cook to perfection

Now My Mom's Stuffed Chapati is ready to be served, do try and let me know how it turned out.