These dangerously addictive vegetable rotis are most sorted street food in Sri Lanka! They are spicy, delicious and wholesome! Whosoever tasted, would naturally want more! However, you can make a healthier version of these at home, keeping the same taste and appearance but with less oil and more fresh vegetables.
It is a bit of a cumbersome task to knead the floor to bring to the right texture but when it is being achieved, the rotis are soft and perfect in taste. I have used a generous amount of veggies and very little oil in this recipe to keep it a healthy and appetising at the same time.
So, let’s make it,
1st Step: Make the dough for Rotis
You will need :
| All purpose flour | 3 cups |
| Salt | 1 tsp |
| Oil | 1 tbsp |
| Sugar | 1 tsp |
Knead
- Rub flour, sugar, salt and oil together
- Add lukewarm water little by little and knead for about 5 – 8 mins until the dough doesn’t stick on to your fingers
- Divide into equal sized balls giving an extra kneed to each ball
- Rub oil on each ball. Place on a tray a little apart from each other
- Cover with a cling film and let them rest at least an hour (ideally, 2hrs)
2nd Step: Make the vegetable filling.
You will need :
| Salt | 1/2 tsp |
| Ground black pepper and chili powder | 1/2 tsp each |
| Garlic chopped | 3 cloves |
| Green chili slit | 1 |
| Onion chopped | 1 large |
| Boiled potatoes | 1/2 cup |
| Carrots – cut into thin strips | 1 cup |
| Spring onions chopped or leek cut thinly | 1/4 cup |
| White Cabbage – shredded thinly | 1 cup |
| Turmeric powder/Mild curry powder | 1/2 tsp each |
| Oil | 1 tbsp |
Stir fry :
- In a large wok, add 2 tbsp of oil and heat up
- Add garlic and brown the chopped onion
- Add carrots stripes, shredded cabbage and start stir-frying until they wilt slightly
- Add the slit green chilli and leek and continue stir-frying for a min or two. Do not overcook the veggies
- Toss salt, turmeric powder and curry powder
- Now add mashed boiled potatoes, leaving a few small chunks
- Add a generous amount of ground black pepper. Check the taste
- Give a good mix, cover and keep aside
3rd Step: Fill and bake the Rotis
- Heat up a non-stick flat pan and spray oil all over
- Rub oil on your kitchen top and hands
- Take a dough ball, flatten it by pressing down lightly and then drag from sides being careful not to tear it.
- Place a heap of the veggie mix in the middle
- Fold from sides, covering the veggie mix to shape it up as a rectangle
- Place gently on the pan
- Repeat the same steps with other dough balls
- Arrange them around the pan and baking them, filliping over every now and again until the outer cover turns golden
- Bake all the sides by tilting them up
- Leave to cool
- Serve warm with sliced raw onions or ketchup
- Delicious!
