Cooking a Variety of North Indian Breads

Who am I? This lecture describes my background and how long I have been cooking Indian cuisine. 

I will describe how this course is divided and what to expect in each section.  There are many different breads, but I will be sharing recipes for 4 different type of breads: roti/chapati, paratha, naan, and puri.  These 4 are very popular in North America and found a lot in restaurants. 

I will explain why we have such a variety.  This will be a bit of a lecture on the history of Indian breads, but also introduce some cultural celebrations when these breads are commonly served.  Much of the variety is dependent on what type of spices and ingredients are available in that region.  I am going to focus on Indian Bread common in North India. 

The ingredients we need to knead the dough and make the roti. 

This video will explain how to knead the dough, but will provide some tips to remember to make the dough easier to manage when cooking it. 

In this video you will learn about the dishware I use to roll the dough into a circular form. 

In this lecture we learn how to actually cook the roti and get the finished result for yummy eating with any curry. 

This video provides the ingredients we need to make puri. 

This video provides how to knead this dough and any tips on this. 

This video provides the steps you need to make the puri. 

This video provides the information on the ingredients we need to make the stuffing for the paratha.  The dough we use is the same we knead for a chapati/roti. 

This video provides the ingredients for a potato filling.  I will be making potato filling, but you can use a variety of different vegetables to make the filling/stuffing. 

This video describes the steps to make a paratha. 

This video shows the ingredients you will need to knead the dough for making naan.

This video shows the steps to kneading the dough you will need to make naan. 

This video show the steps to take to attain the final naan to eat with your favorite curry. 

This video describes the ingredients we need to make the batura dough and then the batura itself. 

Kneading this dough is different than what you would expect when kneading the roti dough. 

This video describes the making of the batura and how the batura would look at the end.