Meals Indian >> Balti Bread

Ingredients :

Whole wheat flour, 2 cups
Salt, 1/4 tsp or to taste
Yeast, 1/2 tsp
(Optional) Ghee/butter, 1/2 cup

 

Method :

Mix all ingredients (except ghee/butter) and make very stiff dough. Cover and keep for an hour.

Kneed to a smooth and round shape dough. Make small balls (called batis) from dough of about 1.5 inch diameter (size in between a ping-pong ball and a tennis ball).

Place all the balls in an oven, preheated to a temperature of 200 deg C, reduce the temperature to 125 deg C and bake the batis until they get cracked and turn to light brown color, about 30-40 minutes. Switch off the oven.

Take out 2 batis at a time and crush them to small pieces. Add a small quantity of melted ghee/butter and mix well.