Dung roti/chapati (Don't take offence - read on)

Last night I cooked up a quick veg curry and wanted some flatbread to go with it... I have Urid flour but didn't know I had to let the flour and grains soak to ferment so I searched the web and found a recipe for some rice chipati... Which I have now modified somewhat.
I forgot to take a photo - but we liked the authentic (of course, with the coriander, coconut and cumin) taste and they were a great addition to the masala mix I had cooked.

Dung Roti - Chapati (Don't take offence - read on)

2cups or rice flour
1 cup grated coconut (I used desiccated as I don't have a coconut grater!)
1 onion (minced - we don't like raw onion taste in things)
1 chilli (The kids wont touch it if it is too spicey)
1/2 cup coriander (chopped)
1/4 cup chopped ginger (I grated it)
salt and cumin -
6 tsp veg oil (I used less)

The recipe called for asafoetida (needless to say I didn't have any dried latex around the house at the time... or is this what Xanthan gum really is? No! well a search on Google quickly educated me to the fact that asafoetida is a "plant resin so foul-smelling that it is often known as devil's dung" so I am quite glad I had none in.)

Method -

My method not that of the link above... as I found it too sticky to work in doughy balls....

Put all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix in wet ingredients - with water or yoghurt till the mixture is runny enough to just drop a large spoonful onto a lightly greased frying pan and spread it out till it is thin like a thick pancake.

Cook till it looks dry on top and lightly browning on bottom, turn and cook again till lightly browning. Then place in a dish in the oven to keep warm. But cover in oven as mine went a bit dry.

Repeat for the remainder of the mixture.

French Bread - from a French Stick tin=success

It worked, it tastes good - especially with this herbed goats' cheese and no 'GF bread' taste... Aliya will be very very happy.
Thank you Brian.

Garlic Bread - yum

The bread might have been horrid for sandwiches but it was wonderful for garlic bread starter.
Sadly I had burnt some of the tops in the toaster prior to today's garlicking up of the slices!
Today I bought a French Stick tin and it was pricey from Happy Cooker! but I will post if I make progress.

French sticks = blocks

These breads were made using the recipe from Brian at Fire and Salt only I don't own any French stick pans which Brian says are really reallly ridiculously essential. Not one to be put off by small things, and because I have the book club meeting at my house tonight and want to make nice bread... (I hope) to have with cheese, I made the bread anyway and used my loaf (tins).

The bread is very light (orange... no, not really, that is just the lighting in the kitchen on a Calgarian Wednesday at 5pm, ) looking and has folded and collapsed a little just like a French stick might.
The smell is of GF bread so that is a thumbs down from Aliya...
And when cut into it was - - still wet... so back into the oven, naked, that is - without the tins for another 25 mins I guess and then....
taste...
is.....
good but the bread is wet... even on toasting it remains wet...
I will buy a French Loaf tin for $20 like Brian suggested.

But just to repeat the bread tastes gooooood..... and it even looks like a nice French stick in texture.


Thanks to Lauren for (without realising what she was doing) giving me a kick in the pants so that I can once again see a value in blogging on about GF cookery.