Pakistani
Makai ki Roti (Corn Flatbread)
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Makai ki Roti (Corn Flatbread) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is 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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Bring the water to a boil with the salt, then pour it over the corn flour and mix with a spoon until cool enough to handle.
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Knead the warm dough 5 minutes. It has no gluten to hold it together, so the hot water and the kneading are the only things that will.
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Take a ball of dough and pat it flat between your palms, or press it out between two sheets of plastic. It will crack at the edges, which is normal.
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Patch the cracks with wet fingers as you go and keep the roti thicker than a wheat one.
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Cook on a hot tawa for 2 minutes a side, pressing gently with a cloth, until brown spots appear and the surface looks dry.
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Smear generously with ghee and eat it hot with sarson ka saag. It goes stiff as it cools, so cook them as they are eaten.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Makai ki Roti (Corn Flatbread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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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. Makai ki Roti (Corn Flatbread) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Matar Pulao (Whole Spice Pea Rice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| 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
- 420 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Carbs
- 74 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Fiber
- 7 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Makai ki Roti (Corn Flatbread) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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