Akki means rice in Kannada and Rotti refers to flatbread cooked on a flat tava or griddle.
Akki rotti or rice flour rotti is a popular breakfast dish from Karnataka Cuisine, served with chutney for breakfast or lunch.
Usually, they are prepared on a flat tava. But here, this Baanale rotti is prepared directly in a deep Kadai. Here Baanale means Deep Kadai in Kannada.
Ingredients
1 cup of rice flour
2 finely chopped green chilies
3/4 cup finely chopped spring onion greens
1 finely chopped onion
3 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
2 tsp jeera/cumin seeds
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking rotti
Procedure
Take one broad vessel, put rice flour, chopped onion, spring onion greens, coriander leaves, jeera, salt, green chilies
Add water and make a soft dough, it must be moist and sticky.
Take one deep kadayi / baanale , grease it with oil
Place a ball of rotti dough in the center of the pan wet your fingers and start to spread it lightly with your fingers to make a round roti.
Put 2 tsp oil over the roti and cook on a medium flame till it turns light brown and crisp.
You can also make this rotti on a greased banana leaf, foil, parchment paper, or moist piece of cloth and cook on a flat tava.
Serve hot with coconut chutney.
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