Aloe Vera Roti/Chapati (Indian Bread)

• Servings: 3-4
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Making dough time: 4-5 minutes.
• Rolling time: 1 minute(each)
• Roasting time: 1 minutes(each).
• Total time: 17 minutes

The purpose of our life is to be happy, most important thing is to enjoy our life. Nowadays we are so busy that we don’t have time to cook food, even to choose nutritious food is a major challenge. In my opinion enjoyment and happiness comes though our stomach in major way.

Beautiful long and big wide leaves of Aloe Vera is abundantly grow in our balcony pot.

I prepared this many times but decided to upload only day before yesterday. Hot Aloe Vera Chapati smeared with homemade ghee indeed this sounds yummy. This is the variation’s of Indian staple diet Roti; which is essential accompaniment in Indian meal.

Ingredients:

• Aatta (wheat flour): 2 cup
• Salt: 2 pinch (optional)
• Aloe Vera: 2 leaf (medium size)
• Ghee: for smearing

Preparation:

1. Method to separate Aloe Vera pulp:
2. Cut Aloe Vera leaf into 4-5 inch long pieces; Leave it for 5- 10 minutes, the bitter yellow liquid will come out.
3. Discard thin layer from both end having yellow liquid, cut longitudinally into 2-3 pieces. See as  in photos given here.
4. Peel off skin of the aloe Vera as in photo.
5. Put Aloe Vera pulp in mixer grinder; grind it on minimum speed to make the juice. Take a bowl, keep soup strainer over it, pour ground pulp, and sieve.

For making dough:

1. Take a wide vessel; pour Atta; aloe vera juice in small quantity and knead them, till the dough becomes soft (The dough can be made in food processor also) Cover and Keep aside, to be used after 10-20 minutes.

Method:

1. Make lemon size balls; dust ball with Aatta and roll the chapati with equal pressure all around, roll 5-6”diameter, use small quantity of wheat flour to dust while rolling.
2. Put this rolled chapati into the hot tawa; cook for few seconds on high flame till it changes the colour, Turn the other side, this side to be cooked slightly more than 1st side. Now hold the chapati with tong and put directly on fire, first side on flame, the chapati will start to puff up. Take it off the flame before it start burning. The chapati is ready.
3. You can puff chapati on tawa instead of flame, and press it lightly with kitchen towel it will puff up.
4. Smear some ghee all over on the chapati and it is ready to serve hot or warm.

Note:

1. It is important to cook chapati on high flame, it will be softer.

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