Maize Roti

Ingredients

• • Maida - 1 cup
• • Maize flour - 1 cup
• • Salt - 1 teaspoon
• • Warm water (for mixing the dough) - as required
• • Oil (for frying) - as required
• • Cooking soda - 2 pinches

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Method

• 1. Mix maida and maize flour together with salt and soda.
• 2. Using warm water knead to smooth dough.
• 3. Apply little oil to hands and knead well several times.
• 4. Make balls and roll out into thin rotis.
• 5. Fry on a hot 'tawa' both sides.
• 6. Apply little oil and serve hot.

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Variation - Maize Methi Roti

• • Add cut methi leaves with green chilly paste to the dough while kneading.

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Variation - Cauliflower Methi Roti

• • Cook finely cut cauliflower and methi leaves.
• • Mash well and mix to the dough with salt and red chilly powder.
• • Make thick parathas and fry both sides with oil.

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Note

• • As maize flour doesn't have glutening effect, it cannot be used to make rotis.
• • Only when it is used with maida, or wheat flour and rice flour, rotis come out well.