A visit to India always includes fantastic food, and every meal seems to include bread.  I learned early in my travels that if you don't understand the menu, you can simply order "some meats, some gravies and some bread" and things won't turn out entirely wrong.

  photo by diametrik

Making the bread, however, has proved elusive for me.  I have never come even close to recreating the bread served at Lazee's in Bangalore, even though I am pretty sure it is a Kerala Porota.  Below is a simple recipe that I rarely do wrong.  It is my general purpose Roti.

Roti

2 cups whole wheat flour

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup milk

Directions

1. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. Put out a board and dust with a good amount of flour.
3. Add the milk and mix into a sticky dough
4. Knead the dough on the board, adding more flour until it is worked into a stiff dough
5. Divide the dough into 4 balls.  Roll each ball out flat, cover them in oil, reform into a ball and let sit for 30 minutes.
6. Roll each ball out to a very thin pancake.  Fry each side with just a little bit of oil.