Beetroot Jowar Roti

There are many moments when we crave for something new instead of cooking same old tried and tired recipes. I’m a person who loves experimenting in my kitchen with all available things tucked in my pantry and creating something innovative. The pleasure I get from creating something new can’t match the one with same old recipes. And it’s like icing on cake if the recipe turns out to be big thumbs up from your loved one. And that’s what I got for our yesterday’s dinner. And it’s a simple Jowar Roti with a small twist. In the end it was really satisfying.
I cooked Sweet Beetroot Jowar Roties. It’s sweet not because I added sugar or any other sweetening agents. The sweetness to roti comes with beetroot.

Beetroot Jowar Roties

Ingredients:
2-3 cups Jowar Flour
2 medium Beetroots, cooked
1 medium Onion, finely chopped
2-3 tbsp Chopped Coriander Leaves
1 tbsp Oil
Salt to taste

Healthy and Tasty Beetroot Jowar Roties

Method:
Make a puree of cooked beetroot in a mixer and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onions. Fry the onion till it turns transparent.
To this add beetroot puree, salt, chopped coriander and cook for few minutes.
Add this mixture to the jowar flour and make dough of chapatti consistency. Add water only if it is required. Make sure that the dough is moist enough.
Take a plastic sheet and oil the surface so that the roties don’t stick to the surface.
Divide the dough into lemon sized balls and place it in the plastic surface. Cover it with another plastic sheet and press using our finger tips or just using a flat surfaced vessel into a roti shape.
Take care that u don’t press it into thin roties because it’s difficult to transfer them into a pan.
Heat a pan and cook the roties till they start forming small brown spots on both sides.
Serve hot with any curries of your choice or you can just eat it with salad.

Beetroot Jowar Roties

Final Verdict:
Well...What can I say! Although it looks simple it did take quite sometime to make them. For one thing the dough itself was little sticky and it was bit of an adventure to move the roties to pan and another circus to turn it in pan. You need to take little care unlike usual chapaties, because they easily break if you are not careful.
But in the end it was worth all the effort. It turned out to be huge success with my sweetheart. He is the one with sweet tooth and also quite healthy food lover. Usually when I make roties I add atleast half a tsp of ghee/oil to it so that it dont turn dry. But these beetroot roties were very soft and didn't ask for any touch of ghee/oil:) So overall it was very tastey. colorful, nutritious, healthy and looked great too:) What more can I ask for!!!

Beetroot Jowar Roties