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roti
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Roti is a round flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is commonly consumed in many South Asian, Southeast Asian, Caribbean, East African, and Southeast African countries.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Roti
- Food.image
- 2020-05-08 19 34 28 Chapati being made in a pan in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.jpg
- Food.caption
- Flat roti, also known as chapati
- Food.alternate_name
- Ruti
- Food.country
- Indian subcontinent
- Food.main_ingredient
- Atta flour
- Food.variations
- Chapati, bajra roti, jowar roti, chawal ki roti, makki ki roti, rumali roti, tandoori roti, wrap roti, roti canai, paratha
- Food.type
- Flatbread
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Types
- Preparation
- Variants
- Indian subcontinent
- Sri Lanka
- Caribbean
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Guyana
- Suriname
- Southeast Asia
- South Africa
- Mauritius
- Iran
- Elsewhere
- See also
- Notes
- References
Roti is a round flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is commonly consumed in many South Asian, Southeast Asian, Caribbean, East African, and Southeast African countries.
It is made from stoneground whole-wheat flour, known as atta, combined into a dough with added water. Its defining characteristic is that it is unleavened. Naan from the Indian subcontinent, by contrast, is a yeast-leavened bread, as is kulcha. Like breads around the world, roti is a staple accompaniment to other foods.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “roti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.