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.
