Thalipeeth

Todays reciepe is again a North Karnataka special Rotti/Roti ,Thalipeeth.
There are different types of "Rotti" in Karnataka like Akki Rotti,Rava Rotti,Jowar Rotti ,Ragi Rotti etc.
But this is one special Rotti where we use all types of Flours and all types of leafy vegetables and it is really healthy.This Rotti is familiar in North Karnataka and Maharastra .

On the same note ,i wanted to share about my weekend.last weekend i had been to Bidar for my Hubby's friend wedding.This is the second time i visited Bidar .Bidar is very Cold place and top most of Karnataka.I had never been to any of the North Karnataka places before marriage although i love travelling.But after marriage ,i think i visited almost all North Karnataka districts and i loved it.So after marriage ,i got to know different types of North Karnataka Foods,got to attend different kind of Marriages and got to meet different people ,got to see different Culture and many more things...Marriage is so different in North and South of karnataka .I think one can write a book on that..:)

I brought Kadak Jowar Rotti/Kati Rotti as some people call and Shenga Chutney from Bidar and it is really good.In North Karnataka ,they serve Kadak Rotti and Shenga Chutney in almost all marriages.

Coming back to today's Recipe ,as usual my MIL taught me this Rotti and she prepares this Rotti very well .

Ingredients :
1½ cups Jowar Flour
2 tbsp Rice Flour
2 tbsp Gram Flour
Green Chilli paste
Corainder and Curry leaves Grinded paste or Chopped
½ tsp Jeera Powder
Ajwain
Salt to taste
Oil/Ghee for frying
Vegetable : Cabbage or Dill Leaves or Bottle Gourd  Grated - 4 Cups

Method :

•  Mix all the Jowar ,Rice and Gram Flour .Add Green Chilli paste, Corainder-Curry leaves paste ,Jeera powder ,ajwain ,salt .Add grated vegetable and Mix it thoroughly without adding the water first .
• Add little water and knead it well to make a soft dough
• Make Orange sized Balls with the Soft Dough
• Wash and dry one polythene covers and one Banana leaf paper or Cigarette paper ,grease it with oil
• Place the banan leaf paper on the down side and polythene cover on top.
• Place the orange sized Dough in between two covers and knead it on chapati stand as shown in pic.
• Remove the polythene cover and transfer the kneaded Rotti along with the Banana Leaf paper and remove it softly so that Rotti does not crack.
• Spread some more oil on the Rotti and fry well on both sides .

Serve this with Onion-Peanut Chutney /any type of Chutney.

Note :

• You can use any leafy vegetable along with this Rotti.
• You can alternatively use little multi -pulses Flour (Green Gram,Toor Dal and Soya ).You can Sun dry all these pulses and Dals very little in qunatity compared to other Flours and Fry on tawa for 20 Mins in sim mode and you can get it grinded from flour mill and mix little quantity as it is healthy. 
• You can use Green banana Leaf  which you get in market these days for this kind of Rotti or Obattu .Previously we preferred using Cigarette paper ,but now a days due to unavailability we can use this Green colored -paper Banana Leaf which is similar to cigarette paper in texture .