'. . . . if your chapities are not round!!!'
Well we girls who are still struggling to make their chapaties round can relate this very well.
Making Perfect round chapities is a short term for many of us, n m delighted to announce that i have achieved it!!!! :D . the struggle and effort were worth, truly!!
Here's my journey...
It was during the ganesh chaturthi 2 years ago when i first touched the dough. Mom was busy with the guests, so she asked me to make small puris with hands for modak. I agreed to do that coz I was going to get some filling to eat :) . It was easy though, as if u r molding clay. . .
It was the summer vacations after when i was to learn to cook, (warna hamare khandan ki naak kat jati). Now my very own Aai - who never let me into the kitchen for so many years was determined to teach me roties and i was determined not to learn (coz if i learn to make proper roties it would be me who would be making garam-garam roties for dinner almost everyday). Jhelofying all my nakharas she managed to teach me how to make a proper dough.
Now whenever i had time, i was to try to make a chapati. I remember when i rolled out my first one it some what resembled the map of Japan, only that it was rounded, a bit. Then slowly slowly, this rounded map of Japan was turning to a proper chapati of exactly 2 mm thickness.
Well !! We must also cook them and that to properly, for them to be edible. So the time had cum when the round 2 mm roties were to be cooked the right way. The very first chapati i roasted was half-cooked and seemed as though it was having chickenpox , black in color. As time passed by, they were sometimes cooked fully or burnt sometimes. They were elastic, too, sometimes - even a naan would tear quicker!!
Time and again chapities were tried, burnt, not properly cooked. But continuous efforts did showed results. And , finally one day...that chapati just blew up like a balloon on fire and my happiness knew no bounds!! I was dancing all over the house n singing.. "Phulli Pulli, majhi chapati phulli!! Phulli Pulli ....". :D
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| A Perfect Phulka |
Finally!!! Those chapaties smiled on me!! They are very simple to make, now. The derived method - Put chapati on tawa on full flame, for about 10 sec. Then palti!! cook properly from the other side (boils will come up showing cooked enough), once its done put on flame. It will blow up! Do palti palti for some time to cook properly. Done. Hope it helps in some way.
The person who actually did the mehnat is my Aai. "Aga hoil ga, jamel ga, Prayanti parmeshwar...,prayatna karat raha... hoel...." Always there whenever i needed u. God gave me the gift for which i cant never thank him.
'Aai, mhantat k aaiche upkar kadhich phitat nai... khare ahe... Mhanunahch he tujhya sathi :) <3 '
