Chapatti flour?

npsmama

Tesco's sell several brnads of this in huge sacks. It works out cheaper than plain flour but I'm not sure what the difference is between chapatti flour and other flours...

can anyone help please?

lil_me

http://www.sonic.net/~alden/Flournw.html

Flour guide. Chapati flour isn't the same as plain flour.

mouseymousey99

I've uesd it in the past (its more expensive now) to make bread etc and its been fine.

vaio

And, you can make bombs from chapatti flour (so you probably have to give name and address when you buy some)

Allegedly

krishna

lil_me wrote:

http://www.sonic.net/~alden/Flournw.html

Flour guide. Chapati flour isn't the same as plain flour.

That site says chapati flour is a mixture of wheat and barley which I'd say was rather unusual for chapati flour. Certainly not what any chapati flour I've ever used has been made from. When I lived in India we used to take the wheat to the mill to get it ground for making chapatis. I guarantee that contained no barley.

Normal chapati flour is just durum wheat flour. It is a strong flour, so more similar to bread flour than regular plain flour. In fact we use bread flour (or spelt) for making chapatis as for us it is cheaper to buy that than to buy chapati flour.

Tashja

Big bag on special offer . . . but I don't know what to do with it but know I have seen it mentioned on here before.

Please can someone help me with some recipes or tell me if there are some other things I can do with it ???

Tashja xx

otterspasm

I was told how to make chapattis by a friend and they turn out fine.
REALLY easy. Just put some chapatti flour into a bowl and mix in enough water to form a dough, the same consistency as bread. Pull golf ball sized pieces off it and roll into a ball then roll out with rolling pin on floured surface to form a chapatti shape....quite thin. Heat up a dry frying pan til quite hot (you can coat it in a teaspoon of oil of you prefer as you would if cooking pancakes). Put the chapatti into the pand and press all over with a dry clean teatowel when it has started to brown a little on one side turn over and repeat. It should start to bubble up. Then it is done.

I tried varying amounts of water in the dough until I found just the right amount to keep the chapatti soft when it was cooked so I'd experiment a bit if I were you
HTH

thriftlady_2

I might be wrong but isn't it the same as wholemeal plain flour (which seems to be disappearing from my shops)? If it is then you can use wherever you need plain flour, although it makes rather heavy pastry.

Tashja

Thank you

Going to give them a go now

T xx

adouglasmhor

It's usualy a very hard bread flour like durum, you can make excellent wholemeal pasta from it as well as chapati, bread, naan and roti.

Angelraesunshine

i bought 2 bags of this the other week

Chapattis

125g flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbs olive oil
70mls of hand hot water ( you may need a fraction more water ) you want a soft but not sticky dough

a little oil for frying

this should be enough for about 6 chapattis and taste great comes from a healthy eating course i did recently.

i also add it to my bread but only a little as thriftlady says its makes a heavier dough.

so for my bread where my recipe says add 3 1/2 cups of flour i add 3 cups of normal bread flour and 1/2 cup of chapatti flour or atta as it is called.

hth