I'm having a lot of trouble making chapattis.?

Question

I bought
some juwar flour (also labelled as sorghum flour) but can't seem
to make a dough. The packet says to add cold water and knead,
but mine always ends up crumbly, not like a dough at all. What
am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

No not cold water! At least room temp water!

Chapathis are also made with whole wheat flour (atta).

Easy Chapathis:

Chapati (Indian Flat Bread) Recipe

Ingredients:

(ATTA) whole wheat flour - 2 cups
Warm milk - 1/2 cup (optional)
Plain flour - ¼ cup (to dust the chapatis)
Warm water - enough to make a soft dough

Method:

Mix the wheat flour and milk and make a soft and moist dough by slowly adding water(u don't want to get it too soft). Knead it till it looks smooth. Cove the dough and keep aside at least for 30 minutes.

Divide the dough in to 6-8 balls with the dough and dust them with the plain flour (to prevent sticking) and roll into thin flat tortilla like rounds using a rolling pin. (keep applying plain flour in between to prevent it from sticking on to roller pin).

Heat a skillet and put the chapati and let it cook for a minute and the top looks dry then turn it over and cook on the other side till small bubbles appear and chapati starts to puff. Once cooked remove it from skillet aply some clarified butter on one side(optional) and store in a kitchen towel lined bread basket to keep them from drying.

You can use Clean Kitchen towel or flat lattle to press it gently while cooking the other side, if you like your chapaties puffed. (this might take a while to perfect the art of puffing the chapati.)
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Maharashtrians make an Indian flatbread with jawar called BHAKRI (I love it!)

Ingredients:

Jowar Flour 2 cups
Warm water
Salt 1 tsp

Method:
Take jowar flour, make a well in the middle. Add salt and warm water. Knead nicely to make a soft dough. Make round balls out of this dough.

On a flat surface, sprinkle little jowar flour and pat the ball with your palm. Use flour as required. Keep flattening the ball in circular motion to make round shape like roti. Don't make it too thin. Bhakri should be equal thickness so that it get puffed.

Keep ready a small piece of clean cloth and water in a vessel.

Now the tricky part is to put this on tawa or griddle. Heat a griddle(or a flat pan) and slide bhakri from the flat surface and place it on the griddle. It should be in such a way that, the lower surface of the bhakri should go on the tawa(upper surface upwards). Turn heat to low. Now with the help of wet cloth, spread water on the bhakri. Then immediately turn on the bhakri to cook other side.

Now remove from griddle and hold it on the direct flame. With the help of spatula, press a bit to get puffed. Roast on both sides till you get small black spots. Be careful, don't burn.

Serve bhakri with a dollop of butter and with garlic chutney or any vegetable gravy.

Note: For beginners bhakri is little difficult to make. Gas cooking is preferred to make good bhakris than electric. But you can roast it on electric coil, just hold it on the coil for 10-20 seconds. Usually traditional bhakri griddle is different than the usual flat griddle, but any flat pan can be used.

Answer 2

INDIAN CHAPATI RECIPE
Ingredients:


2 cups Wheat Flour (Gehun Ka Atta)
Water as per requirement


How to make chapati:
Knead soft dough with above ingredients.
Leave it for atleast 30 minutes.
Break off to a table tennis - ball sized (even smaller) bit of dough.
Roll with help of dry flour to a thin round.
Roll as thin as possible.
Heat tawa and place phulka on it.
When dry on one side, turn it.
When brown spots appear on second side, turn again.
Use a kitchen towel and lightly press the phulka, rotating at same time, it will puff.
Make as crisp as desired.
Serve hot.

Answer 3

Basically for chapathi u can use mild warm water also.First add some water and make it as a dough but at the time of finishing add some oil and make it as a dough and leave it for some 2 hours.

After 2 hours u can make chapathis with that dough.

This works well with wheat flour but i donno abt the flour u r using.

Anyhow next time onwards try to get wheat flour for this.

I hope this information helps you.

Answer 4

add little more water shreya ji...
it ll soften and then ur dough ll be perfect
and easy to make chapattis....
happy chapatti making...

u know?? its easier to make wheat flour chapatti so try your hand on that before juwar..

Answer 5

you're using the wrong flour .. you have to buy whole wheat "chappati" flour. .. juwar is an entirely different grain used for making batter-fried savories and halwas, puddings, etc.

Answer 6

Ha Ha Ha, this is a problem with me too. Oh, it was because pravtice makes a man oh sorry woman perfect.

Answer 7

add water slowly. I mean little by little