The first time ever I had akki roti (rice roti) or even heard of it was in Mysore, Karnataka. The moment I put it in my mouth I knew I would be having a long-term affair with it. After this I have had akki rotis at a lot of other places, but nothing comes close to what my friend’s mother makes.. She makes it using left-over rice instead of just rice flour which is generally the main ingredient used in making it all over Karnataka. The secret ingredient, which takes this humble rice roti to the next level, is the use of freshly chopped dill. Yes, u heard me right addition of soya leaves as we all know it in North India. At my friend's place the accompaniments to the akki roti are coconut chutney and honey. As everybody else would be, I was a bit skeptical about the honey in the beginning, but once I tasted the combination, I can have it no other way. Do give it a try once and I guarantee you, you will be a convert unless u don’t like sweet things. Do let me know your thoughts on this great breakfast dish. And to top it all its totally gluten free. If you are looking at making an even healthier version, you can add chopped spinach leaves. It tastes great. This recipe doesn’t have a fixed quantity of each ingredient added (since the key ingredient is left over rice), just go with the flow and see yourself create music in the kitchen.
Wash all vegetables.
Finely chop :
1 onion- skin removed
1 green chilli
4 tablespoon coriander leaves
4 tablespoon dill leaves
Take cold left-over 250 grams of cooked rice and coarsely grind it in the mixer.
Remove this in a bowl.
Coarsely grind:
+ chopped onions
+ chilli, coriander leaves
+dill leaves separately in a blender
Add the above to the rice in the bowl along with:
+ 11/2 teaspoon salt
+ 4 tablespoons of rice floor.
Mix this mixture thoroughly with hands, to form a sort of dough.
(You should be able to form balls to roll out into chapatis)
Divide this dough in 6 equal balls.
Take a plastic sheet, coat it with oil, keep one ball on it , cover with another plastic sheet which has also been coated with oil and gently roll it being careful not to break it.
If the dough is too dry it ill break, add few splashes of water.
Incase it’s too wet it will stick to the plastic, add rice flour.
Heat a tawa and carefully peel the roti off the plastic sheet and put this onto the hot tawa.
Put little oil all around the roti so that it doesn’t stick and cook.
Once cooked it will start leaving the sides of the tawa.
Gently flip it over and again pour little oil all around the roti.
Cook until done.
It should have a few light brown spots.
Serve along with:
coconut chutney (recipe in a separate post)
honey (optional).
P.S. Please apply oil to the plastic sheets before rolling out each roti.
Ingredients
Directions
Wash all vegetables.
Finely chop :
1 onion- skin removed
1 green chilli
4 tablespoon coriander leaves
4 tablespoon dill leaves
Take cold left-over 250 grams of cooked rice and coarsely grind it in the mixer.
Remove this in a bowl.
Coarsely grind:
+ chopped onions
+ chilli, coriander leaves
+dill leaves separately in a blender
Add the above to the rice in the bowl along with:
+ 11/2 teaspoon salt
+ 4 tablespoons of rice floor.
Mix this mixture thoroughly with hands, to form a sort of dough.
(You should be able to form balls to roll out into chapatis)
Divide this dough in 6 equal balls.
Take a plastic sheet, coat it with oil, keep one ball on it , cover with another plastic sheet which has also been coated with oil and gently roll it being careful not to break it.
If the dough is too dry it ill break, add few splashes of water.
Incase it’s too wet it will stick to the plastic, add rice flour.
Heat a tawa and carefully peel the roti off the plastic sheet and put this onto the hot tawa.
Put little oil all around the roti so that it doesn’t stick and cook.
Once cooked it will start leaving the sides of the tawa.
Gently flip it over and again pour little oil all around the roti.
Cook until done.
It should have a few light brown spots.
Serve along with:
coconut chutney (recipe in a separate post)
honey (optional).
P.S. Please apply oil to the plastic sheets before rolling out each roti.