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Two types of roti are eaten: chapati/flat roti and paratha/flaky roti. Flaky roti is also called Malay roti. When eaten with a curry filling, usually mutton, chicken or mince, the roti is called a Salomie. A roti gatsby is a popular takeaway dish where the bread of the filled gatsby, a popular sandwich is replaced several rotis and folded.
Paratha – layered or stuffed flatbread from North India - traditionally made from whole wheat flour by baking with oil on a hot surface. Aloo paratha; Gobhi paratha; Laccha paratha; Porotta – layered flat bread of Kerala and some parts of Southern India; Pashti – flatbread prepared with rice flour and pan fried in ghee; Pathiri ...
Chapati (alternatively spelled chapathi; pronounced as IAST: capātī, capāṭī, cāpāṭi), also known as roti, rooti, rotee, rotli, rotta, safati, shabaati, phulka, chapo (in East Africa), sada roti (in the Caribbean), poli (in Marathi), and roshi (in the Maldives), [1] is an unleavened flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent and is a staple in India, Nepal, Bangladesh ...
Chapati: An unleavened flatbread (also known as roti), [7] it is a common staple of cuisine in South Asia, as well as amongst South Asian expatriates. Versions of the dish are also found in Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, with the laobing flatbread serving as a local variation in China. Chapati is known as doday in Pashto. Chivda
Chapati dough is made with whole white flour (finer) and oil/ghee, seasoned with salt, and by binding flour mostly with water. Chapatis are an everyday food, cooked on a griddle usually without oil or ghee and often puffed up by cooking on open flame. After taking them off the flame, some ghee is spread on the top.
Indentured labourers from British India also introduced the bread to the Caribbean, where it is called the "buss-up-shut roti" referring to the way the bread is beaten after cooking to free up the layers until it looks like a 'bust-up shirt', as well as to Mauritius, Maldives and Guyana, where it was given the names farata and oil roti. [6] [2]
Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam (dated between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th century grammar Naṉṉūl , which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam with some modifications.
Kottu, [18] is made up of paratha or wheat flour (Godamba roti), which is cut into small pieces or ribbons. [18] Then on a heated iron sheet or griddle, vegetables and onions are fried. Eggs, cooked meat, or fish are added to fried vegetables and heated for a few minutes.