Ingredients
For Mauritian roti recipe you will need:
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- Water
- Salt to taste
- Oil
Method
Preparation of Mauritian roti recipe :
- Mix your salt and flour together and slowly add water until your flour turns into a nice dough ball.
- Add oil and let it rest for a minimum of 20-30mins, but ideally 1 hour.
- Once your dough ball has rested, roll it out with your hands and separate into the number of rotis you want to make (6 in this case).
- Roll it into 6 smaller dough balls.
- Roll out a dough ball into a thin large square, brush it with oil and add dry flour then fold inwards to make a square and repeat for all dough balls.
- Once done, put your tawa on the hob and let it heat up whilst you roll the squares out into the shape of a roti. ( make sure you roll lightly)
- Put the roti on the hot tawa, when the colour changes and you see bubbles appearing flip the roti over and cook for around 4 minutes on each side.
- Once done make sure you fold and smash the roti to make sure it remains soft.
- Bon appetit Mauritian roti is ready to eat.
Credit to: Zinnat’s Kitchen
