Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    Breads
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Published 2005

  • About

Chapatis are one of the world’s simplest breads to make and one of the best to eat. A dough is made with flour, salt, and water, then balls of the dough are rolled out thin and cooked on a griddle or a skillet. Once you get the hang of making chapatis, you can turn out eight breads for breakfast or for dinner in the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee (well, almost).

Chapatis, sometimes called rotis in the north of India and in Pakistan, are quintessential Subcontinent. Village pe