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    Home » Flatbread Recipes » Southekayi Rotti/Cucumber Roti

    Southekayi Rotti/Cucumber Roti

    Jun 24, 2015 · Modified: Mar 6, 2021 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

    The Last week of BM, i took paired blogger series as my theme and i m paired with Suma of Veggie Platter. Suma, a blogger buddy,who has been in BM group for so long, probably from the day it started and best known for  her clean and crisp food clicks and her lip-smacking dishes. Her amazing bakes this marathon, stunned us all. She gave a totally different theme, naming each day of the week with a fun adjective and baked something different for every day. Not many of us, can think of a  theme like that. 
    First i planned to bake from her baking collection, but then decided to look into her traditional dishes and selected 3 from them and made it for this marathon. Selecting 3 from her blog, was a bit tough, i shortlisted 10 and then skimmed it to 3 from there.  

    The first recipe is an easy breakfast recipe, cucumber roti/Southekayi rotti. I first made it for dinner and paired it with Aviyal and also as breakfast for another day. The breakfast i paired it with tomato chutney and felt it, as a better combo than aviyal. This roti needs a spicy and a saucy side, so you can also pair it with pickle or any spicy yogurt dip.
    My Elder one liked this rotti, though it was  a bit spicy for him ,he panted a little, drank water, but came back again for second helping, maybe his taste buds are changing now. But it was way too spicy for the younger one, he just took one bite and left it saying “kaaram amma”. So, if serving for kids, try to decrease the chilies and add peppercorns and increase the amount of coconut to one or two tbsp. 



    Source : Veggie Platter
    Ingredients (12-14)
    2 Cups Rice flour
    2 nos lebanese cucumber
    4 nos green chilies or 5 nos green chilie (avoid peppercorn powder if using 5)
    1 cup freshly grated coconut
    ¼ cup chopped coriander leaves
    salt to taste (1 tsp)
    1 tablespoon freshly ground peppercorns
    oil for cooking the roti’s

    Method

    • In a small mixer, take coconut, green chilies, coriander together, add  one or two tablespoon water and grid to a fine paste. Wash and peel the cucumber. In a large bowl, take rice flour, add salt and shred the cucumber directly into the rice flour bowl. 
    • Add the ground coconut-chili paste to this and start kneading a soft dough. No need to add any water, moisture for the cucumber and the ground paste will take care of it. Little trivia about cucumber, do you know it is a fruit??? raising eye-brows, yes me too knew it only a few minutes before!! 🙂
    • Once kneaded, divide the dough into a little larger than ping-pong ball, but less than that of a tennis ball size. Place a cast iron tava on the stove, let it get heated in a simmer flame, you got to maintain the same heat to get a evenly cooked and nicely browned rotti.
    • Use a plastic cover to pat/shape the rotti or you can pat the rotti directly on to the hot tava. I use my sandwich bag for the same. Take a dough ball and pat it to 4-5 inches round flat rotti, make a small hole in the center.
    • Take the plastic cover in your hand and remove the rotti on your other and transfer it to the hot tava, drizzle ½ teaspoon of oil around the edges, cover and cook one side for a minute, the edges will turn brown,  flip and cook the other side, drizzle oil again. Transfer it to another plate. Serve it along with a saucy chutney. I served it with Tomato chutney.

    • Since it take a longer time to cook, it is better to keep the next rotti patted ready while the one is cooking. Rotti’s taste better when served hot straight from the tava. If storing it, to be served later, better warm it in the microwave for 20 seconds and serve it hot. 
    Sending this to Kids Delight – Fruits in any form, happening @ Harini’s Space, an event by +Srivalli Jetti. 



    Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 53

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    Comments

    1. Unknown

      June 24, 2015 at 7:53 pm

      lovely cucumber rotis..we make akki roti often..this is really good…

      Reply
    2. rajani

      June 24, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      It sounds a lot like the andhra version of akki roti. The green chillies and the spice level confirm that 🙂

      Reply
    3. Sarita

      June 24, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      Cucumber roti looks delicious. Nice recipe.

      Reply
    4. Suma Gandlur

      June 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      Thanks for the mention and for your kind words. Priya. We love these soft rottis and hope you liked them as well. These are from Karnataka and a rotti is usually served with chutney podi or jaggery / ghee.

      Reply
    5. vaishali sabnani

      June 24, 2015 at 11:53 pm

      Very interesting recipe, and very well teamed too. I am trying to visualize the flavors, must say you have a treasure of flat breads.

      Reply
    6. Kalyani

      June 25, 2015 at 4:49 am

      I have a mangalorean version of these cucumber rottis 🙂 and I love any flatbread with that tomato-onion chutney / thokku !

      Reply
    7. Rafeeda AR

      June 25, 2015 at 5:47 am

      very interesting roti…

      Reply
    8. Srivalli

      June 25, 2015 at 11:11 am

      Beautiful dishes Priya and selecting 3 from Suma's space is tough I agree..

      Reply
    9. sushma

      June 26, 2015 at 11:05 am

      Wow such an interesting recipe, looks great

      Reply
    10. Sandhya Ramakrishnan

      June 29, 2015 at 1:02 am

      Lovely recipe and they look so good. BM pair is the hardest for me as I want to try out each and every dish from the pair's blog.

      Reply
    11. Archana

      June 29, 2015 at 10:02 am

      Bookmarking.

      Reply
    12. Varada's Kitchen

      June 29, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      I would have never thought to try cucumber in a roti but it sounds so good. Especially with your tomato chutney.

      Reply
    13. Sowmya :)

      June 29, 2015 at 3:55 pm

      That looks like a very intersting idea

      Reply
    14. Pavani

      June 29, 2015 at 9:33 pm

      Very interesting roti with cucumber. Will have to try it some time — I have some cucumbers waiting to be used in the fridge.

      Reply
    15. Chef Mireille

      July 02, 2015 at 12:56 am

      what a healthy idea for breakfast!

      Reply
    16. Priya Suresh

      July 03, 2015 at 4:25 pm

      Wat an interesting roti with cucumber, one of the best way to sneak cucu;bers..

      Reply
    17. Harini R

      July 06, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      Lovely roti, Priya. I love such vegetable based rotis. I need to make these soon.

      Reply

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