Rava Rotti Recipe (Karnataka Style Semolina Flat Bread)

Step 1: To prepare Rava Rotti Recipe (Karnataka Style Semolina Flat Bread), get prep with all the ingredients, chopping and grating

Step 2: Add onion, coconut, green chilli, ginger, coriander, Curry leaves, cumin seeds and salt in a wide mixing bowl

Step 3: Mix it nicely by crushing onions with your hands for few minutes

Step 4: This brings out more flavor from all ingredients

Step 5: Add rava and sour curd to it

Step 6: Add water and mix it nicely to form a moist dough

Step 7: Let rava dough rest for 10- 15 minutes

Step 8: This will help rava to fluff up a bit and also you will observe that rava would have taken in all the liquids and the dough would have thickened

Step 9: Add some water or curd to loosen the dough

Step 10: Make the dough thicker than idli batter but a little watery to work, than chapati dough

Step 11: The dough should be easy to spread / pat with hands

Step 12: Keep a Tawa on the flame

Step 13: Sprinkle few drops of oil on the tava and spread all over the pan

Step 14: Grease a plastic sheet / aluminum foil / parchment paper /banana leaf /wet muslin cloth

Step 15: Take a large lemon sized dough and pat it evenly with your hands to a thin rotti

Step 16: Wet your hands in between with water to ease the patting

Step 17: Heat the griddle

Step 18: When it is hot, put the sheet with dough on the griddle to transfer the rotti to the hot griddle

Step 19: After a few seconds, remove the sheet carefully from the tawa such that the rotti remains n the tawa and the flat bread is intact and not torn

Step 20: Do it steadily and take care not to burn the sheet/cloth used to make the rotti

Step 21: Cook rotti on a medium heat

Step 22: Pour a few drops of oil all over the rotti

Step 23: Cover and cook till one side becomes slightly brown in color

Step 24: Then take out lid, flip the rotti and continue cooking for about a minute or so until the rotti becomes crispy on both sides

Step 25: Rava rotti is ready to be served with Coconut Chutney, Chutney Podi and Butter to top it up

Step 26: Enjoy them as your hearty weekday breakfast / Snack / Dinner