Ragi roti recipe, Fingermillet roti recipe

Ragi roti recipe, a traditional roti made with ragi or fingermillet flour.Ragi roti is of my favorites tastes so soft and good.

I like both sweet version and salt versions of ragi roti very much.As a kid I liked the sweet more but now like both.Ragi roti can be made quickly and can make for a healthy breakfast or snack.

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Ragi roti recipe

Ragi roti recipe, fingermillet savoury roti with onions and green chillies.

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time10 mins

Total Time20 mins

Course: Main Course, Snack

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 4 rotis

Author: Sharmilee J

Ingredients

• 1 cup ragi flour(fingermillet flour)
• 3 tbsp chopped onion
• 1 no finely chopped green chillies
• 2 tsp finely chopped curry leaves
• salt to taste
• water as needed
• oil to toast

Instructions

• In a mixing bowl - add ragi flour, add chopped onion,green chillies,curry leaves and required salt.
• Add water little by little, gather together  to form a dough.
• Divide into 4 equal portions..Make big lemon sized balls.Grease the parchment paper with few drops of oil place the ball and flatten it.Start patting it with your fingers till its thin as shown in the pic.You can make 2 rotis at a time so that you can alternate them while one is getting cooked in the tawa.
• Heat dosa tawa and drizzle oil, carefully transfer the roti to the tawa.Toast the rotis on both the sides, drizzle oil.Flip over only when one side is cooked and cook other side until black spots appear here and there.
  

Notes

• You can make big rotis too.
• The dough should be moist and sticky, if its dry then the rotis will have splits and will break while toasting.The consistency of the dough is more like the kozhukattai dough but sticky.
• Grease your fingers with little oil so that it doesn’t stick while flattening the adais.

Steps to make ragi roti recipe:

1. In a mixing bowl – add ragi flour, add chopped onion,green chillies,curry leaves and required salt.
   
2. Add water little by little, gather together to form a dough.
   
3. Divide into 4 equal portions..Make big lemon sized balls.Grease the parchment paper with few drops of oil place the ball and flatten it.Start patting it with your fingers till its thin as shown in the pic.You can make 2 rotis at a time so that you can alternate them while one is getting cooked in the tawa.
   
4. Heat dosa tawa and drizzle oil, carefully transfer the roti to the tawa.Toast the rotis on both the sides, drizzle oil.Flip over only when one side is cooked and cook other side until black spots appear here and there.
   

Serve hot!