Roti

bread · Indian food · world cuisine

Super simple to make. Roti is made with just a few basic ingredients: flour, water, and a little salt. You mix them together, roll out the dough into a thin circle, and cook it on a hot griddle until it puffs up and gets light brown spots.

Eaten everywhere. While roti comes from India, people in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, East Africa, and Southeast Africa all eat it as part of their daily meals. It traveled around the world with people who moved from India to other countries.

Perfect with everything. Roti is like the bread sidekick that works with any meal. People wrap it around curries, dals (lentils), vegetables, or meat dishes to scoop up every delicious bite.

Puffs like magic. When roti hits the hot griddle, the heat makes steam build up inside the dough, causing it to puff up into a balloon. This happens because the dough is thin and the griddle is really hot.