Maize flour roti with winter greens | Glutenfreewhisk

The best way to eat winter greens or saag has to be this. With winter season comes saag and like every Indian household variety of saag is made on repeat. Who does not love the combination of sarso ka saag and makki ki roti. I love it and I have grown up eating makki ki roti with shalgam/turnips and palak paneer (since as a kid palak paneer was one of my favorites like most of us do) sitting in the sun after school and this memory is still with me. One of the best food memories from mom's kitchen.

Now when I am all grown up, I have started growing my own winter greens from a few years now and since I follow a gluten free diet maize flour roti is an everyday thing. I got bored and I started adding grated carrots, chopped curry leaves, spring onion greens, and the best mix winter greens. I am sharing this personal lunch/ dinner recipe from my kitchen to yours. I do this with Jowar flour too and I have shared another recipe for Jowar flour roti in two ways too.

A lot of people are scared of making maize flour roti. Some don't know how to handle the flour, some can't make a maize flour roti with breaking it and some are still stuck on the fact that the roti has to be round. (I don't know why this is even a thing). Anyways, I will show you how to handle maize flour without breaking the roti and making it ALMOST round. Check the recipe video of soft maize flour roti with winter greens on my YouTube channel or read the instructions below.

I follow my mother's way of making maize flour roti or jowar or bajra roti for that matter. This way is transferred to generations and I love it. I don't use the rolling board or rolling it. Or I don't use two sheets or butter paper. I follow my mother's way, and it is kind of the best and practical. Many Punjabi mothers or highly trained mothers even make it by using just their hands. No cloth, no rolling pin, no paper and I am in aww of these women. Just exceptional.

This is my take on sarso ka saag and makki ki roti. 

Taste one hundred percent, easy and quick meal idea one hundred percent. Make any roti using winter greens ragi, jowar or maize you will be addicted to them.

INGREDIENTS - 

2.5 tbsp Maize flour

handful for winter greens sarso, palak, meethi

Salt to taste

half a tsp roasted cumin powder

water to knead the dough

METHOD - 

1. Roughly chop the winter greens (I have used meethi, palak & sarso) in a bowl add salt and cumin powder to it.

2. Now add the maize flour and combine it all using your hand. Add water to knead the dough. Make sure you add little water at a time if you are new to this. The dough should be soft and somewhat wet to get a good roti/chapatti. If you knead the dough too tight then the roti will be dry and crisp.

3. Once done let it rest for 10 minutes. In the meantime, heat the pan with some ghee on it and take a clean kitchen cloth (In Indian families we have a kitchen cloth to keep the cooked roti's in or a cloth that is used to cook roti on a hot pan. If you don't have a kitchen cloth, use a cling wrap) or a cling wrap and put the dough on it.

4. Now flatten it using your hand until it is even on side and flat from the center too. If your dough is too wet, you won't be able to bring the dough on the cloth or wrap. Add more flour and adjust the dough. Also, if the dough sticks on your hand while flattening it just wet your fingers a little and then carry on.

5. Now flip the roti on your stretched palm from the cloth or wrap and immediately transfer it on to the hot pan. Cook it on both side by applying ghee.  I make small superficial cuts on one side of the roti before adding ghee. This is totally optional.

6. Serve hot with your favorite curry.

For visuals, please head to my YouTube channel for the detailed recipe video of Maize flour roti.

NOTE- I make this daily so for me this seems easy, and it comes with practice. Right dough and speed will come as you do it regularly.

Check the full recipe on YouTube (Gluten_free_whisk) - Maize flour roti with winter greens recipe

Maize flour roti with winter greens | Glutenfreewhisk