Gram Flour Flatbread

Name: Gram Flour Flatbread (Besan Ki Roti)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Makes: 12 Flatbreads
Ingredients: 1½ cups Whole-Wheat Flour; 2 tbsp fresh Coriander Leaves (chopped); 1 medium Onion (finely chopped); ½ tsp (or to taste) Red Chilli Flakes; 2-3 Green Chillies (finely chopped); 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; Salt to taste; 2 cups Gram Flour

Besan Ki Roti

Preparation info

Makes:
12
Flatbreads

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

VIRSA

By Shehar Bano Rizvi

Published 2021

About

Bread Besan ki roti is a soft flatbread made with gram flour. Topped with butter or desi ghee, this bread is usually devoured with lehsan mirch ki chutney alongside other chutneys and pickles. Ammi would always cook kaddu ki bhujia (pumpkin) alongside this bread.

Ingredients

2 cups Gram Flour
1½ cups Whole-Wheat Flour
1 med

Main course
Vegan

Method

Mix all dry ingredients first, and then knead the dough with all the other ingredients (the mixture should be a little harder than the usual chapati/paratha dough).

Let the dough rest for at least half an hour.

Roll the bread just as you would with chapati, but it should be thicker than a regular chapati.

Cook on a griddle pan (tawa) on medium heat by pr