Feast your eyes on these delicious rotis

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make delicious rotis, now’s your chance, because Naqiyah Mayat is sharing her recipe, and it’s a good one.

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Ingredients:

  • 2¾ cups water
  • 1 T oil
  • 1 t fine salt
  • 256 g maize meal
  • 128 g flour
  • Butter or ghee, for frying

Method:

  1. Heat 2 ½ cups water, the oil and salt in a heavy-based saucepan.
  2. When the water starts boiling rapidly, add the maize meal. Stir well.
  3. Add the remaining water, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
  4. Reduce the heat. The steam will cook the maize meal.
  5. Empty into a bowl, then add the flour.
  6. At this stage, you can use your food processor or beater with a dough hook to make the dough. If you prefer using your hands to bring the dough together, break the dough into pieces, bring it together again into one ball and knead thoroughly until you get a smooth, velvety dough.
  7. Break into 15 equal-sized balls.
  8. Shape each ball into a disc using your fingers and roll it flat until it is slightly bigger than a side plate.
  9. Dry-fry in a pan over a medium heat, turning once. You can add butter or ghee after dry-frying.
TIP: The ratio is 2 to 1: 2 cups of mielie meal to 1 cup of cake flour. If you use 4 cups of mielie meal, then use 2 cups of cake flour.

Cook's note:

This easy recipe yields a super-soft roti, which has a soft, floury aroma and texture. It’s thinner than the traditional roti and best suited to eating with gravy curries such as fish curry, yam or madumbi curry, banana curry or even on its own.

Serves 15

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 30 minutes

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