Akki Roti - Reader's Choice

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Drum roll... Kirthana Aditya was the random winner of that contest and she was sweet enough to contribute the recipe for Akki roti - Karnataka styled recipe to me as soon as I mailed her. Here are few lines from her - 

I am Kirthana Aditya. Have been married for 6 years and that's my real length of experience in cooking as well!

So, why am I interested in cooking? Well, my mother in law is a great cook, I have learnt most of my cooking from her. The second reason is my husband (PS: fed by my mil for 25 years!); whether he can cook or not is never contested, but he is a great food critic. So, with no other option in sight, I became interested in cooking well. Now, following my husband's footsteps is my son, Sriram, who is hardly 6, and can perfectly figure out what's wrong in the dish! My sister is my partner-in-crime. We cook together watching cookery videos on YouTube! 

Today, it has become a passion and now, it's like, I love to cook new dishes and recipes. I constantly search for different recipes on the web and try them out. One such search result is 4th sense cooking, simple and easy-to-do recipes with ingredients at home. I even hold a copy of the 4th sense recipe book.           

Thank you so much Kirthana for introducing a delicious recipe to me and my readers. :)

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups

Cumin Seeds (Jeera) - 2 tsps

Onions - 2

Green chilies - 3

Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch

Coconut (scrapped) - 1/2 cup

Salt - for taste

Water

Method:

Step 1: Take rice flour in a large mixing bowl.

Step 2: Add jeera to it.

Step 3: Chop onion finely and add it to the bowl. 

Step 4: Chop green chilies finely and add it too. 

Step 5: Drop in chopped coriander leaves. 

Step 6: Put the grated the coconut into the mixing bowl too. 

Step 7: Add salt. 

Step 8: Heat 2 cups of water until it is warm. Now add the water little by little to dough and mix well until everything comes together into a soft and spreadable dough. 

Step 9: Leave the dough closed for half an hour. 

Step 10: Take a plastic sheet and grease it with some oil. Pinch a large ball of dough and place it on the sheet and pat it until it is an evenly spread circle of 1/2 inch thickness. 

Step 11: Place the sheet down side on a well greased pan and remove the sheet carefully leaving the akki roti on the pan. 

Note: You can pat the dough into a thin circle directly on the pan too. But see to that you have atleast two pans to alternate and use so that one becomes cool enough to handle while the other is on the stove. 

Step 12: Pour few drops of oil and roast on both the sides. 

Serve the hot akki roti with jaggery, sugar or chutney of your choice. 

I served it with urad dhall chutney. Click on the chuntey image for the recipe. 

Written by: Nithya
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