Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ubbu Rotti - Rice flour roties

Where was I all these days? Well I was right at home and at office but too tied up with lots of work and expectations. Well, the last month - Shravana masa as we call it will generally be quite hectic with me, with all those poojas and festivals. Though there were quite many special dishes cooked, I didn’t have any energy or enthu to click and blog. So just stayed back from blogging. Now here I am, back in full swing!
Coming to today’s dish, we have what we call Ubbu rotti - a roti made of rice flour, which just puffs up like poori when making, and is very soft and melts in your mouth. Not very difficult to make, though requires a little more time than the usual chapathis or so, but its really worth a try.This tastes great with some chutney, vegetable palya, esp any side dish made of brinjal/eggplant. The side dish recipe will soon follow.

Ubbu Rotti


Preparation time : 20 min
Cooking time : 20 min
Makes : 8-10

Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 ½ cups + for dusting
Water - 3 cups
Salt - ½ tsp, or as per taste
Cooking Oil - 2 tsp

Method:
• In a heavy bottomed pan, boil water by adding salt and a few drops of oil
• Once water starts boiling, add rice flour and let it remain for 10 minutes on medium low flame
• At the end of 10 minutes, take a strong ladle and continuously stir, avoiding lumps
• Cook for a couple of minutes more. The resulting dough should be similar to that of papad dough - soft, but non sticky
• Let it cool for a couple of minutes so that it can be handled
• Divide the dough into 3-4 parts and knead it well, smearing a few drops of oil. See tips and tricks below for easier ways.
• Once the dough is kneaded well into a soft but firm dough, take big small lemon sized balls and roll it using rolling pin like a chapatti/roti. Use a little amount of rice flour if it feels sticky
• Heat a griddle on high flame and cook the rolled rotti on both sides by flipping. Ensure not to brown the rotti. Appearance of light brownish spots indicates that it is done.
• Repeat the same with rest of the dough
• Serve hot with some palya/gojju/chutney

Tips n Tricks:
• To avoid your palms getting burnt while kneading the hot dough, fill it in thick polythene and cover it in a towel / thick cloth and knead it over it. This way a smooth and soft dough will be ready in a jiffy
• It is easy to knead the dough when hot rather than juggling it when it gets colder
• Knead it, make into balls before you start rolling. This saves time and effort, and it gets easier to roll and then cook simultaneously
• The better you knead, the easier it is to roll. If the dough is not kneaded well, while rolling the rottis start cracking and gets difficult to handle

Variations:
• The same can be prepared with fine soji or maida instead of rice flour. But the one with rice flour is a far healthier one.

6 comments:

  1. i love akki roti, and nice stepwise pics, looks so yummy...

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  2. very soft looking rotis ...very new dish for me ...thanks for sharing dear ...btw welcome back :)

    Satya
    http://www.superyummyrecipes.com

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  3. I make this too. I love this with any kind of gojju.

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  4. Looks fabulous and delicious rotis,thanks for sharing..

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  5. have been trying to make this since long....should make it soon....rotis look soft and yumm...

    Lavanya

    www.lavsblog.com

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  6. this is different from akki rotti. Nice I ask my wife to try this next time.

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