Akki Roti

Akki roti is nothing but roti made up of rice flour. Its a very tasty and great Karnataka dish. I have a strong liking for this dish from my childhood. There is no specific timing for making this dish. I prepare, whenever i want to eat it. I like all rice flour recipes say, Puttu, Kadubu, Akki Vada, Appam, Idiappam, etc. which have an excellent taste when prepared using fresh flour.

You can prepare Masala Akki roti by adding some veggies to it. But, I like the pure white akki roti with finely chopped green chillies and karipatha. It tastes great along with onion/red chutney.

All you need:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Red onion - 1 medium (finely chopped)
Green chillies - 3 (finely chopped)
Curry leaves - 3 (roughly chopped)
Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Salt and Oil

Method:

Combine all the above ingredients except oil. Mix the flour thoroughly after adding salt. Now add water little by little and make a soft ball like a chapati dough. You can add a tbsp of oil while preparing the dough. Now, heat the tawa in a medium flame and grease it. Take a portion of dough (which must be bigger than the size of a lemon) and make a ball out of it.

Now, spread the dough directly on the tawa by touching water in your fingers and make sure, it is not too thin. Now add little oil over the edges and slightly increase the heat. Cook for 1 minute and flip it on the other side. It's done when you can see light brown spots on the roti.



If you are not comfortable in spreading the dough directly on the tawa, try spreading it on a grease paper or on a plastic sheet. Grease the sheet and then spread the dough by pressing using fingers touched in oil and then slowly transfer the roti onto the tawa. Be cautious, if tawa is too hot, it will burn the sheet.


For Red Chutney:

All you need:

Red onion - 4 (medium)
Tomato - 2 (medium)
Red Chillies - 4
Tamarind paste - 1/2 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tbsp
Urad dal - few
Curry leaves - few
Salt

Method:

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan. Add red chillies and roughly chopped red onions. When they become translucent, add chopped tomatoes and fry till the tomatoes get mashed. Let them cool and grind it along with salt and tamarind. Now heat the tadka and add mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves. Transfer them into the red chutney. Serve Red/onion chutney along with hot akki rotis.



Note: Heat one tbsp of ghee and then add it to the flour which gives a nice and fresh aroma over the flour. Adjust the salt and chillies acc. to your taste. Akki roti tastes great when served hot.