West Indian
Thepla (Spiced Wheat-Fenugreek Flatbread)
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Thepla (Spiced Wheat-Fenugreek Flatbread) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Wash and finely chop the fresh fenugreek leaves, then set them aside while you get the dough going.
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In a large bowl, mix the whole wheat flour, besan, chopped fenugreek, turmeric, chili powder, ajwain, ginger-green chili paste, oil, and salt.
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Add water a little at a time and knead into a soft, pliable dough, then cover and rest it for 15 minutes.
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Divide the dough into 8 balls and roll each one out into a thin round, dusting with flour as needed.
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Cook each thepla on a hot tawa, brushing lightly with oil on both sides, until golden brown spots appear.
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Stack the warm theplas and serve with chaas or pickle, or pack them for the road.
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Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Thepla (Spiced Wheat-Fenugreek Flatbread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Thepla (Spiced Wheat-Fenugreek Flatbread) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Aamti (Goda-Masala Spiced Dal) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 350 kcal
- Protein
- 9 g
- Carbs
- 46 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 430 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Thepla (Spiced Wheat-Fenugreek Flatbread) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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