रोट

                       Recipe for making रोट 

This recipe I'm going to share today is a very healthy dish indeed. Because the main ingredients here is black lentils. Health benefit of black lentils i have already discussed in my previous blog.

Now lets have a look on the ingredients that we may required to prepare this dish.

Key Ingredients:

Black Lentils                                       250 gram

Salt                                                     As per taste

Garlic paste                                         1/2 tbs

Ginger paste                                        1/2 tbs

Turmeric powder                                 1/2 tbs

Coriander powder                               1/2 tbs

Cumin powder                                     1/2 tbs

Red chilly powder                                1/2 tbs

Wheat flour                                          250 gram
Banana Leaf                                         As per requirement (to cover रोट)

Method to prepare this recipe:

1. Soak black lentils for about 12 hour and make a good paste from the soaked lentils.
2.  Put wheat flour in a bowl add some ghee and salt and prepare a dough by adding water and mashing it. Dough must not be too soft else the stuffing may come out.  
3. Let the dough rest for a while so that it become soft.

Now for stuffing:

1. Put lentil paste in a bowl and assure that it does not contain much water i.e it must be grinned without adding extra water.
2. Add salt, ginger paste, garlic paste, coriander powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, red chilly powder and mix it well.

Final step of this recipe:

1.  Take hand full of dough and role the dough in the clean flat marble surface or traditional chapati block.
2. Once you role the dough 6-8 inch diameter then add 1-2 spoon if stuffing in the dough.
3. Fold the dough from the boundary (like paper fold) and make a closed surface in the shape of rectangle.
4. Cover it with the banana leaf (you can also tie a knot after you cover with banana leaf (optional)) and put it in the pressure cooker.
5. In the similar manner you can prepare as many you want and then cook it for 15- 20 minutes
6. Let it be cooled and remove banana leaf. 
7. Now delicious रोट is ready to serve. 
8. It can be eaten with tomato pickle, sesame seed pickle.

As this dish is steamed it is preferred a healthy food that contain almost no fat. It is assumed that this dish contain high energy and is eaten a day before taking fast in Nepal also a important dish of Nepal.

I guess many people does not know about this dish....... :)