Making chapati's faster?

Hi Rums,

Making chapatis at home becomes easy with practice. There is no short cut way to it. You can minimise your time in making them if you have ready dough in fridge. So i try to stock up my fridge with dough and then it is quick. The time taken on rolling the dough and cooking depends from person to person.

 

well chappati is made evryday in my house it is pain,,

just make dough put in ref stays well for week or so,,

if your back pains make less chapati or try indian store and buy roti maker/puri maker/tortilla maker
i heard of them nvr tried,,,so you make round balls put in puri maker and press etc..

srry cant help much,,or buy chapati if someone nearby can make i think they charge 20c per,,
or call someone to come once week make chapati,,

 

Why is it a pain for you? What kind of chakli and rolling pin are you using? Is the dough you knead too thin? Is your kitchen platform too high or low for your height giving you backache as you make the chapatis? Do you generally have backache when standing for long periods of time or is it only during cooking?

 

As others mentioned, roti making becomes easier by practise. Being a south indian, I wasn't used to making rotis on a daily basis. It was tough initially, but now I make it much faster. If dough making is the hard part, try using a food processor. Sometimes, keeping dough in fridge makes it hard, if so heat it in microwave for 10 sec just before pressing rotis. Dough becomes softer then. Pressing should be easier with soft knead dough. While cooking, do it on the flame and rotis are ready quickly.

 

Try using food processor for kneading the dough. It does the job in a jiffy. If the kneading process is made that way,then you just have to roll it, which is not hard.

 

Rums, There is an easy way to make chapathis.Take the amount of wheat flour you need in a wide bowl.You need to make sure atta is of good quality. I use Swad Flour. The worst is Golden Temple flour. Coming back to how to make chapathis,boil water in microwave until its very hot. Add salt to wheat flour according to taste.Mix it and add around 2-4 tablespoons of oil.Again mix it and keep adding hot water little by little and mixing at the same time.When it all comes together just gather and make it into one lump. With good flour it shudnt take long. You dont need to knead at all if its Swad Flour. I have been using it from past 2 yrs.

Coming to rolling chapathis ,see if your rolling pin is of considerable thickness in b/n . Not the thin ones you get. Thicker ones require less effort while rolling chapathis.Now take a small ball of mixed flour ,almost a golf size. press it and add plenty of loose flour. Do it now instead of later becoz later makes the chapathis very dry. Then put the small ball of flour on the chapathi board. Then put the rolling pin on that and move it back and forth gently. Keep in mind that you dont do it rigourously. It takes practice ,but once you perfect it , you can do it in sleep.This will not give you backache or pain ur hands.Try it.Good Luck.