Roti

Another food brought by Indian workers, Roti is a versatile bread often served with curried meats. Look out for this wonderful bread at your nearest street vendor!

INGREDIENTS

3 cups of counter flour

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 teaspoon sea salts

1 cup boiled spring water

1/2 cup of butter or margarine

1/2 teaspoon Indian curry powder

1/2 clove of garlic

Butter For Deep Frying

PREPARATION

Place all the ingredients in a large bowl except the garlic.

Mix ingredients until soft then knead the mixture well adding

flour if sticky to create a rubbery dough.

Flatten the mixture using a roller often used when preparing pizza

until medium crust height.

Create as many roti dough as you can flatten each, then

Place a large frying pan and add the deep frying butter.

Place the Pan on very high heat and then add butter until

extreme heat occurs.

Drop a 1/2 clove of garlic in the pot when it fries out remove it.

Fry the Roti dough flipping it each 20 seconds to ensure

it is not blackened.

Once the roti is browned on both sides remove and let cool. Recipe from http://www.gettrinidad.com/trinidad_recipes_roti.asp Image from http://www.shalombombay.com/images/FreshlyBakedBread/Roti.jpg