An Indian girl baking chapatis.

Chapati or chapatti (Hindi: चपाती ; IPA: [cəpa:t̪i]) is a type of roti or Indian bread eaten in South Asia. In many areas of South Asia, particularly the north of the subcontinent, it is the staple food. It is made from a dough of atta flour (whole grain durum wheat), water and salt by rolling the dough out into discs of approximately twelve centimeters in diameter and browning the discs on both sides on a very hot, dry tava or frying pan (preferably not one coated with Teflon or other nonstick material). Each disc is then held for about half a second directly into an open flame, causing it to puff up with steam like a balloon. The steaming (ballooning) step can also be achieved by placing the chapati in a microwave oven for five to ten seconds. However, because microwave cooking can cause the chapati to become soggy, a heated grill or open gas flame is recommended. Image File history File linksMetadata Baking_Chapatis. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Baking_Chapatis. ... Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी; IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India [1][2]. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and Gujarati... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phulka Preparation of Roti with sorghum flour. ... Indian breads are one of primary item in the daily menu of the Indian food. ... Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir). ... A staple food is a food that forms the basis of a traditional diet, particularly that of the poor. ... Dough Dough is a paste made out of any cereals (grains) or leguminous crops by grinding with small amount of water. ... Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Whole grains are cereal grains which retain the bran and germ as well as the endosperm, in contrast to refined grains which retain only the endosperm. ... Durum wheat (T. turgidum durum) is the only tetraploid species of wheat widely cultivated today. ... Water is a chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) Salt covering the floor of Bad Water in Death Valley, CA, the lowest point in the US. A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral... In geometry, a disk is the region in a plane contained inside of a circle. ... cm redirects here, alternate uses: cm (disambiguation) A centimetre (symbol cm; American spelling: centimeter) is an SI unit of length. ... DIAMETER is an AAA protocol (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) succeeding its predecessor RADIUS. // The name is a pun on the RADIUS protocol, which is the predecessor (a diameter is twice the radius). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tawa. ... A stainless steel frying pan. ... Teflon is polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a polymer of fluorinated ethylene. ... Conflagration redirects here. ... In physical chemistry, and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. ... Microwave oven A microwave oven, or microwave, is a kitchen appliance employing microwave radiation primarily to cook or heat food. ...

Often, the finished chapatis are brushed with ghee (clarified butter). Variations include replacing part of the wheat flour with millet (bajra) or maize (makka) flour. The chapatis are then referred to in Hindi as bajra roti or makke ki roti. When a mixture of millet, maize and gram flour is used, the chapati is called a missi roti. In the southern and eastern parts, one cannot have that option for all the terms roti, chapati, paratha or kulcha would imply majorly, if not exclusively maida contents. In some parts of Maharashtra , Chapati is called poli. Ghee in a jar Wikibooks Cookbook has an article on Ghee Ghee (Hindi घी from Sanskrit ghá¹›ta घृत sprinkled ) is a type of clarified butter important in Indian cuisine. ... Pearl millet in the field The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. ... Corn redirects here. ... Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी; IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India [1][2]. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and Gujarati... Binomial name Lens culinaris Medikus The lentil or masoor (Lens culinaris) is a brushy annual plant of the legume family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. ... Phulka Preparation of Roti with sorghum flour. ... Paratha is an Indian flatbread, usually made with whole-wheat flour, fried in ghee, and sometimes stuffed with vegetables, especially boiled potatoes or radish or cauliflower and cheese (Paneer in India). ... Kulcha is a north Indian bread, usually eaten with Cholay. ... Maharashtra   (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र , English: , IPA: ) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... The Instituto Politécnico Superior of Rosario (former Escuela Industrial de la Nación) depends of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and was created in 1906 from an initiative by his first director, Luis Laporte. ...

Chapatis are usually eaten with cooked dal (lentil soup) or vegetable (Indian curry) dishes, and pieces of the chapati are used to wrap around and pick up each bite of the cooked dish. Masoor dal Masoor dal prepared using traditional yellow dal recipe Dal (also spelled dhal, dahl, or daal) is a preparation of pulses which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split, as well as a thick, spicy stew prepared therefrom, a mainstay of Indian cuisine. ... Vegetables in a market Venn diagram representing the relationship between (botanical) fruits and vegetables. ...

It is also eaten in Uganda, where there was a large Indian minority.

Chapati size variation

• Chapati sizes vary depending on region and change slightly from kitchen to kitchen. In general, an Indian chapati is approximately 15cm in diameter while in Pakistan a chapati or roti is somewhat smaller, usually 5cm to 10cm in diameter.
• In some regions of Pakistan, notably north-western areas, a chapati can be less than 5cm in diameter.

Chapati are also eaten in Kenya. Phulka Preparation of Roti with sorghum flour. ...

External links

• Pasand Recipes
• Chapati recipes
• Recipes for Chapathi, Paratha and Rotis