Name: Ragi roti with miso and avocado butter
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 tbsp water; 1 large ripe avocado, de-stoned; ¼ tsp nigella seeds; 1 tbsp homemade yoghurt; splash of lemon or lime juice (optional); freshly ground black pepper; 1 tbsp parsley, or your favourite herb; 38 g (¼ cup) rice flour or gram flour; 38 g (¼ cup) ragi flour; ½ carrot, grated (optional); ¼ tsp sea salt; ½ tbsp ghee, at room temperature; 1 tbsp dark or sweet miso

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

East by West

By Jasmine Hemsley

Published 2017

About

These freshly cooked rotis, smeared with creamy, savoury avocado and miso butter have become my go-to breakfast, snack or lunch. Making rotis might sound like hard work but this recipe is so easy you’ll be impressing guests with your hot-off-the-press flatbreads in no time.

I love the nutty flavour of ragi – a small brown finger millet from Africa and Asia. It can be quite dense by itself in recipes, so I like to mix it 50:50 with either rice or gram flour. You can also mix it with