Chapati

Ingredients :

Wheat flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ghee
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Prepare dough by mixing together ½ cup of water, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp ghee and just enough wheat flour. Knead well. Let the dough be a little softer than that of puri.Keep aside for an hour.Then shape parts of dough into balls bigger than the ones fit for puris.Dust with wheat flour. Roll into chapatis on a rolling board. Smear chapati tawa with ghee. Keep on flame. Roast both sides of chapati on the tawa moderately.Ready to serve.

Poori

Ingredients :

Wheat flour

2 tsp sugaroil or ghee for frying

asafoetida

water

salt to taste
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Prepare dough for puri by adding together 1 tsp table salt, ½ cup of water, sufficient quantity of wheat flour and 1 tsp ghee. Knead well. Shape parts of the dough into balls of desired size.Dust them with wheat flour. Roll into puris on a wooden board.Deep-fry them in hot oil or ghee, in a frying pan.

Spicy Paneer Nan

Ingredients :

For the dough :

500 grams maida

20 grams fresh yeast or 2 tsp dry yeast

25 grams ghee or margarine or butter

2 tbsp fresh curds

1½ tsp sugar

1 tsp salt
For the stuffing :

100 grams paneer,

grated1 onion, chopped

3-4 green chillies, chopped

2 tbsp coriander, chopped

salt to taste
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Sieve the flour properly.Put the sugar and yeast in 1 teacup of warm water and mix till the yeast dissolves. Cover and wait for 5 to 7 minutes until the mixture is full of froth.Put this liquid along with the curds, ghee and salt to the flour and make soft dough by using some more warm water.Knead the dough for at least 6 to 7 minutes.Keep the dough under a wet cloth for 30 minutes. Knead again for 1 minute.Mix all the ingredients for the stuffing properly.Divide the dough into 20 small parts and shape into naans. Put 1 tbsp of the filling in the centre.Seal the edges and roll into oblong shape to any other shape whichever you like.Grease a pressure cooker very lightly with oil. Take out the lid from the pressure cooker and heat it upside down.Take each naan, apply a little water on one side and stick the wet side around the inside of the pressure cooker till brown spots appear. Continue the same procedure for the remaining naans. (One at a time you can apply 3 to 4 naans inside the walls of a pressure cooker).Take out and apply butter.Ready to serve.

Methi Ki Roti

Ingredients :

2 teacups cauliflower, grated

½ tsp jeera

1 onion, chopped

1 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped

2 green chillies, chopped

½ tsp ginger, chopped

2 tsp oil

salt to taste
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Heat the oil and sauté the jeera until they crackle.Put the onion, green chillies and ginger and sauté for further ½ minute.Put the cauliflower and salt. Sprinkle a little water and cook until three quarters cooked.Put the coriander and stir well.

Aloo ki Poori

Ingredients :

2 teacups maida

2 potatoes, boiled

2 pinches pepper powder

½ teacup milk

2 pinches saffron

2 tbsp melted ghee

½ tsp salt

ghee for deep frying

Method :

Peel and grate the potatoes and make a fine paste.Mix the flour, pepper, ghee and salt properly.Put the saffron in the milk and mix with the flour. If you want, put a little saffron colour in the milk.Knead and dough properly. Leave aside for 1 hour.Roll into small puris and deep fry in hot ghee till they puff up.Ready to serve.