Roti Pizza Party

Our beloved Mac is still in the shop, but neither rain not sleet nor gloom of nigtht will keep us from our Paratha adventures. Sunday our daugther had a craving for a cookie, and since we don't keep any in the house usually an emergency Trader Joes run was in order.

We have been very in to bread making lately and while a T.J.'s decided it might be a good idea to make our our pizza so we stocked up on cheese and pizza sauce. Rather than make normal Italian style pizza we went for a roti base. Pictured to the right are two mini roti pizzas with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. Delightful. We are going to try for a calzone next and need to think about ways to doctor them up so they are more Indian like. Using whole wheat flower these are much less bready, and the sauce-to-cheese-to-crust ratio is nice.

The dough is easy to make, combining 2 cups of whole wheat flour with 1 cup of H2O and a pinch of salt, and then mixing by hand (which would take a while) or using a kitchenaid mix master and dough hook for about 5 minutes of effort (which is the avenue we took). Pounding and folding the dough out is more practice and art than science and after a few attempts you'll get the hang of it.

Cheer.