Vegetable Rotis - Sri Lanka's Favourtie Street Food

These deliciously addictive vegetable rotis are the most sorted street food in Sri Lanka and are made according to different levels of spiciness, depending on the green chilies and chilli flakes used in the filling.  Try to use as many as veggies in order to make a healthy version, perhaps some tinned fish or cooked meat could be added if you prefer to turn them into a non-veg delicacy.

Let’s make it;

1st Step

Make the dough for Rotis

You'll need;

Ingredients    Amounts

Plain flour    3cups

Salt               1tsp

Oil                1tbsp

Sugar            1tsp

Knead

• Rub flour, sugar, salt, and oil together
• Add lukewarm water little by little and knead for about 5 – 8 mins until the dough doesn’t stick to your fingers
• Divide into equal-sized balls giving an extra kneed to each ball
• Rub oil on each ball.  Place on a tray a little apart from each other
• Cover with a cling film and let them rest for at least an hour (ideally, 2hrs)

 2nd Step: Make the vegetable filling

You will need;

Salt
Black pepper   Chili powder
Garlic chopped
Green chilies
Onion chopped
Boiled potatoes
Carrots
Spring onions
White Cabbage
Turmeric powder Mild curry powder

Stir fry 

• In a large wok, add 2 tbsp of oil and heat up
• Add garlic and brown the chopped onion
• Add carrots stripes, and shredded cabbage and start stir-frying until they wilt slightly

• Add the slit green chilli and leek and continue stir-frying for a min or two.  Do not overcook the veggies
• Toss salt, turmeric powder, and curry powder
• Now add mashed boiled potatoes, leaving a few small chunks
• Add a generous amount of ground black pepper.  Check the taste
• Give a good mix, cover, and keep aside

3rd Step: Fill and bake the Rotis

• Heat up a non-stick flat pan and spray oil all over
• Rub oil on your kitchen top and hands
• Take a dough ball, flatten it by pressing it down lightly, and then drag it from the sides being careful not to tear it.
• Place a heap of the veggie mix in the middle
• Fold from sides, covering the veggie mix to shape it up as a rectangle
• Place gently on the pan
• Repeat the same steps with other dough balls
• Arrange them around the pan and bake them, filliping over every now and again until the outer cover turns golden
• Bake all the sides by tilting them up

• Leave to cool
• Serve warm with sliced raw onions or ketchup
• Delicious!