Jowar is a millet and jowar roti is a staple food in many places in India. My Marathi neighbour had once shown me how to make jowar roti the traditional way, but failed miserably whenever I tried it. Finally I found a way to make jowar rotis, not the traditional way but I do fetch good rotis by this process, Glad to share and save the recipe :)
Ingredients
Jowar flour - 2 cups
Water - 2 cups
Salt - 1 tspn
Oil - 1 tspn
Method
Take a flat pan and pour water and keep on the stove. Let the water boil properly, sieve in the jowar flour to the boiling water. Cook the flour in the water till all the water is absorbed by the flour. Remove from flame and knead the dough as much as possible while the dough is still hot/warm. The more you need the better the rotis.
For the next step, i.e to knead the dough its highly recommended to have a chapatti presser/tortilla presser, else it is very difficult to roll the dough way you roll out chapatti dough.
So keep the chapatti presser ready by spreading plastic sheets in between ( so that you can easily remove the rotis ). Take a small portion the dough, make a small round ball and keep it in the presser between the plastic sheets and press it. Lift the lid of the presser, remove the roti and cook on a medium hot tava , flipping in between and also showing it directly to the flame , so that it puffs up. Repeat the process to get nice fluffy and soft jowar rotis.
Enjoy with some spicy curry !
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