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tricolour chapati

Tricolour chapati | Tiranga Chapati recipe

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 300g Wheat Flour (make 3 portions of 100g each)
  • 25g (2 tsp) Maida (All purpose flour)
  • 1 (medium sized) Carrot
  • 50g (1 Bunch) Spinach
  • 50g (1 Bunch) Fenugreek leaves
  • Cooking Oil as required
  • Salt as per taste

Instructions
 

Making Orange coloured Dough

  • Take a medium sized carrot, peel of its skin, cut into small dices and cook in boiling water. This will help retain the orange colour. Put it in a mixer jar.
  • Make fine paste of carrot and keep it aside.
  • Put 100g wheat flour in a dough maker or wide bowl. Put the carrot paste into it.
  • Add a little salt, 1 tsp cooking oil and water. Knead to form the dough
  • Now the orange coloured dough is ready. You can use beetroot to prepare dough the same way. You get reddish pink dough by doing that.

Making Green colour Dough

  • Take 50g spinach, put it in mixer jar and make paste.
  • Again take 100g wheat flour in the dough maker. Add the spinach paste to it.
  • Add 50g chopped fenugreek leaves. You can paste this along with spinach also. But if you put without pasting then it will give good texture of leaves to the dough.
  • Add little salt, 1 tsp cooking oil and prepare dough the same way as you made orange coloured dough. Keep it aside.

Making white coloured dough

  • Take 100g wheat flour and to it add 2-3 tsp maida. Maida is added only to give whitish colour. You can avoid it too.
  • Add a little salt, 1 tsp cooking oil and add water and make the dough.
  • White coloured dough is also ready.

Making tri colour chapati

  • Keep the coloured dough aside for 15-20 minutes till they settle down.
  • Now take small part of each dough. Roll it to form thin strips as shown.
  • Weave it in the form of pigtail. This is a bit difficult part of the process. (Watch the video to get a better idea ). Then roll it together to form a cylinder.
  • Now cut small balls out of it with the help of a knife.
  • Dip the balls in wheat flour and roll it thin to form chapatis with a rolling pin.
  • Take a pan or tawa, apply little oil on it and spread.
  • Put the chapatis and flip it till it roasts on both side evenly. Apply oil on the top before flipping.
  • Tricolour chapati is ready. Eat it with curd, pickle or kurma.
    tricolour chapati

Notes

Key points to remember:
  • Since we add vegetable to this dish it is more healthy compared to normal chapati.
  • You can add desired vegetables of your choice.
  • Weaving the dough in the form of pigtail requires lot of patience. Once you get it right then rest all things are easy.