ANOTHER INDIAN FLATBREAD…KHAMEERI ROTI
William Cobbett
Carrying on from my last post, time to blog eloquently about the third Indian flatbread I had a go at making. You can find the earlier two, Naan & Tandoori Roti, in this post here. While the naan I made is a leavened bread but not with yeast, the tandoori roti is unleavened. This current flatbread, ‘Khameeri Roti‘, is also leavened, & yeast is the rising agent in this case. (‘Khameeri‘ means fermented.)
This is a rustic, moreish flatbread, made entirely with wholewheat flour (aata) & has delicious crust. Like most baked flatbreads, it tastes best eaten hot out of the oven. The dough is kneaded twice; the second kneading is a little involved as you try & incorporate extra liquid into the dough. This results in a smooth silky dough, which is then left to rise. It’s a nice bread to serve with curries, vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
Khameeri Roti (Leavened Bread)
from ‘The Indian Menu Planner’
Ingredients:
Wholewheat flour – 2 cups
Clarified butter (ghee) to grease baking tray. (I line the tray with foil instead)
Salt to taste
Active Dried Yeast – 1 1/2 tsp
Flour to dust 
Method:
- Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 a cup of warm water, & leave to proof.
- Sieve the flour with salt onto a platter.
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Make a well & pour in about 3/4 cup of water, mix gradually & knead to a tough dough. Add a little more water if required. Cover with a damp cloth & keep for 15 minutes.
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Slowly sprinkle the dissolved yeast mixture, & keep kneading till the dough is smooth & pliable & not sticky. Cover with a damp cloth & leave for 30 minutes.
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Divide the dough into 8-10 equal balls & dust with dry flour.
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Press & flatten into 8″ wide discs. Place on a greased tray & bake for 4-5 minutes in an oven pre-heated at 180 degrees C.
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Drizzle with melted ghee or butter(very optional, yet most delicious).
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Serve hot with curry.
This rustic flatbread is off for Yeastspotting at Susan’s @ Wild Yeast Blog, for her weekly wrap on yeast baking.
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22 Comments
Manggy
You’ve come to really enjoy the word moreish 🙂 Sigh. I am so depressed looking at your perfect flatbreads! It seems I am eternally bread-cursed!
Divya Vikram
Looks great n nice…
A_and_N
Lovely flatbreads Deeba 🙂
Why do you make a tough dough first (without even adding the yeast) and then add yeast during second kneading? Does it have to do anything with the rustic finish of th flatbread?
And you have left the poor sabzi off the second pic 🙂
Clumbsy Cookie
I love flatbreads! I can even eat them on their own! As usual you did a great job with this one! It’s good to get to know different kinds of flatbreads!
meeso
Mmmm, that last picture looks so good!!! I am tempted to have lots and lots of bread now 🙂
mimi
oh my gosh, you need to stop with all these flatbreads, they all look so delicious, i wish i could eat them all!
noble pig
Yummy, I would love to try this one, love the photos too!
Susan from Food Blogga
Well, William Cobbett was obviously a brilliant man. 🙂
As for the flatbread, the crust looks perfect, Deeba. Just golden and so beautifully textured. It’s almost like i can feel it.
Gloria (Canela)
Meeta, what’s nice you make it!! Im hungry only see this!! lovely! Gloria
Gloria (Canela)
Sorry,sorry I said you Meeta dear I know you are Deeba, sorry Im a little tired at nigt!! Dear Deeba your bread is lovely and yummy!!!! huggs!! Gloria
Alexa
Lovely flatbread. My weakness– and here it is in front me… a thing of beauty. I could eat the whole pile all by myself.
Tartelette
Ahaah!! I might have found a way to stop our addiction of ordering the bread basket at our Indian restaurant!! Love it!
jayasree
rustic roti looks yummy… Nice to know about another variety of flatbread
Bonbon Oiseau
ooo looks so delicious! i love your blog–i always learn so much!
can you talk sometime about roomali roti, the large “handkerchief” rotis? I love them and have such good memories of eating them on a hike past Dodital, made Gujers in their summer huts–i wills end you pictures sometime!!!
Purnima
Deeba, those flatbreads look so delicious by itself! The 1st blue pic calls out to me, eat me eat me! 😀 Hey just visited ur very initial posts of last Aug! Though I m pretty late here, would still want to wish you a Very Very Happy First Blog Anniversary! The quotes, impressive food pics n intriguing write up..has alws had a follower in me for your blog!! CONGRATS and may u blog and blog and blog with the lovely lovely bakes,or any edible items with ur touch of glamor to them! U ROCKKKKKK! Glad to hv chanced ur blog!
Núria
A lovely bread! The pictures look so good :D. I never tried to bake my own, but seems that it shouldn’t be that hard!
Pleople from Morocco are coming over to Spain for work and there’s a lot of them in my village, one of the things that shocked me is that they bake their own bread at home always.
For me and for the most of Spaniards, we always buy it at the store! Each morning we buy the newspaper and the bread.
Ivy
Deeba, it looks great and looking into the ingredients it’s just like the Greek pita except for the ghee.
Susan/Wild Yeast
You are queen of the flatbreads. Moreish, indeed!
OhioMom
I love Naan bread, this recipe is one I am going to try. Now that the weather is cool I will bake more 🙂
Núria
Ah, I forgot to mention that there’s something for you waiting in my blog 😀
Mediterranean Turkish Cook
I am a big fan of flat bread and any kind of Indian bread. In fact, I have been thinking about baking some Indian bread from a cookbook that I have, but maybe I’ll try your recipe instead. It just looks irresistible!
Jeanne
Your flatbreads are just *perfect* Deeba!! I am wildly envious (in the nicest possible way, of course!)