How to Make Chapati, Indian Flat Bread

Recipes

Jan 24

Quick summary

This video teaches you Brandon Nelson’s specific, gluten-free chapati recipe. You will learn how to combine cassava flour and all-purpose gluten-free flour with hot water, olive oil, and sea salt to create the perfect dough ball. The process demonstrates a special technique for rolling the dough thinly using parchment paper and how to cook the chapati in a dry pan, adding a pinch of salt for flavor. This is valuable because it offers a quick, reliable, and delicious gluten-free method for making Indian flatbread, complete with ideas for serving it with ghee and a chicken and vegetable mix.

What you'll need and what to do

To try what's taught in the video, here's what you'll need and the exact steps to follow.

What You Will Need

• Cassava flour (one cup and a quarter)

• All-purpose gluten-free flour (one cup and a quarter)

• Olive oil

• Sea salt

• Hot water (one part)

• Measuring cup

• Rubber scraper or spatula

• Two burners

• Two pre-cut sheets of parchment paper

• Rolling pin (Betty Crocker style or similar)

• Dry pans (for cooking)

• Ghee (for serving)

• Turmeric and lime vegetable and chicken mix (for serving)

• Lime juice (for serving)

Action Steps

1. Combine a cup and a quarter of cassava flour, a cup and a quarter of all-purpose gluten-free flour, some olive oil, and some sea salt in a bowl.

2. Measure one part hot water using the measuring cup.

3. Mix the ingredients using a rubber scraper or spatula because the water is hot.

4. Move into hand work to form the mixture into a perfect, nice ball.

5. Get a couple of burners going for cooking.

6. Take a racquetball-sized piece of dough, a little bigger than a golf ball, and place it right in the middle of one sheet of parchment paper.

7. Place the second layer of parchment paper on top.

8. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to about 1/16 of an inch thick.

9. Lay the rolled chapati right off the parchment paper into your hand.

10. Use a dry pan (no olive oil) for cooking.

11. Put a pinch of salt in the dry pan before laying the chapati down so it picks up the salt.

12. Roll out a second piece of dough for the second pan to establish a cooking rhythm.

13. Slather some ghee onto the cooked chapati first.

14. Add the tumeric and lime vegetable and chicken mix.

15. Squeeze some lime juice on top.

Word for word video transcript

hey everyone Brandon nelson and in one minute i'm going to show you my gluten-free chapati recipe it starts with a cup and a quarter of cassava flour a cup and a quarter of an all-purpose gluten-free flour some olive oil some sea salt and then back to the measuring cup one part hot water okay don't just thrust your hand in there because remember the water is hot i start with a you know rubber scraper spatula and move right into some hand work okay when it's perfect you're able to form it into a nice ball now before we begin rolling out the chapati we're going to get a couple burners going next thing we need is some parchment paper i love these pre-cut sheets you need two of them we take about a racquetball sized piece of Japanese a little bigger than a golf ball right in the middle of our parchment paper second layer of parchment paper on top betty Crocker style rolling pin or whatever you have okay it's rolled out it's about 1 16 of an inch thick watch what i do i just lay it right off that parchment paper right into my hand now no olive oil in the pan we use a dry pan but i do like to put a pinch of salt because then when you lay that chapati down ooh it picks up all that salt that one's cooking I'm gonna roll out a second one for our second pan pinch of salt in the pan and then in goes the chapati perfect look at that beautiful beautiful thing and with two chapati cooking you go back to your ball of dill you get another one going you get into a rhythm and pretty soon you're just a chapati machine now what to do with the chapati i always start with some ghee slathered on there first and I have this nice turmeric and lime vegetable and chicken mix that i absolutely love and then squeeze some lime juice on there this has been Brandon nelson for one minute I'll see you next time.

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