Healthy Indian Recipes: Thick garlic Indian bread

India is known for its diverse culture, warmth, heritage and hospitality. India is also known for its variety of tasty food. Here we have made an attempt to put together some tasty Indian recipes that are not only tasty but also healthy.

With the growing stress and lack of time to exercise, more and more people are becoming pray to obesity and some fatal diseases. The attempt here is to give simple recipes that are tasty as well as healthy and at the same time not time consuming to prepare. You don’t have to be an expert chef for making this, all you have to do is follow these simple instructions. You will end up being an expert healthy cook anyways.

Happy Cooking!

 

Thick garlic Indian bread / Roti’s (Bhakhri’s):

Ingredients:
• 25gm wheat flour
• 10gm soybean flour
• 5 gm gram flour
• ½ tea spoon garlic paste
• 10gm chopped green leafy garlic
• Salt to taste
• 20ml Olive oil
• Water

Method:
Mix all the ingredients with 10ml to 15ml oil in a vessel. Now, pour some water as much as it would take to make a tight soft dough. This will help avoid using more dry flour while rolling it into chapattis.

Keep the dough covered for 10 minutes. Then make 2 or 3 parts of the dough. Roll it round into somewhat thick roti’s. Now oil is needed to cook these roti’s. Inorder to use minimal oil, apply oil with cotton while cooking on a flat pan

Cook till they look mild brown in color on a nonstick frying pan. After they are well cooked, Store them in a closed vessel. You can enjoy eating these in your meals with vegetable or snack in between meals with tea and garlic bhakri.

Hope you enjoyed preparing the Garlic Bhakri. Cooking can be as enjoyable as eating. Now lets do a calorie and health monitor check

Health & Calorie count:
• Wheat flour and soybean flour reduces cholesterol.
• Wheat flour contains Vitamin ‘A’.
• Soybean and wheat flour is full of energy.
• 1 bhakhri of 20gm contains 60cal.