I love making ladoos, because they are so versatile, they can be made pretty much with any flour. I made these with leftover chapati and it was delicious
Mother used to make this dough with sugar cane juice and roll out sweet chapatis called “dashmis”. This is how I have fortuitously acquired my jhadoo (broom madewith reeds), those amber gems of gond(edible gum) and that tearjerker Kissan mango jam
Aish Merahrah in Egypt, Bammy in Jamaica, Bannock in Native American culture, Bazlama in Turkey, Bhakri in Pakistan, Bing in China, Bolani in Afghanistan, Chapati and Naan in India, Farl in Scotland, Flatkaka in Iceland, Green Onion Cake in China, Himbasha and Injera in Ethiopia, Khanom bueang in Thailand and Cambodia, Lavash in Armenia, Lefse in Norway, Malooga in Yemen, Pane carasau in Italy and Sardinia, Pita in Greece,Qistibi in Tartarstan, Tortillas in Mexico, Tunnbröd in Sweden and Taftan in Iran
chapatis. Chicken with masala madewith red chili, cardamom and cinnamon. pearlspot (“a fish she dusted in a sweet-chili masala, wrapped in a banana leaf, and tawa-grilled with a spot of coconut oil’)
While pathiri has a super soft and paper thin texture, the dough is rolled by dusting it with rice flour to thin round shapes (quite similar to making chapati)
Jharkhandis swear by their culinary love for rice, which forms the main ingredient in most of the signature dishes such as Pittha (rice cake), Dhuska (deep fried thick rice cake), Khichdi, Golhatti (rice mildly fried in ghee with fenugreek seeds), papri or chilka roti (thin rice flourchapati),dal pittha (finger-sized rice cake stuffed with pulses), machli bhat (rice and fishcurry), maas bhat (rice and mutton curry), Kera-dudhauri (milk, rice, ghee and jaggery),among others
I served Ann's withchapatis as she's not the biggest rice fan and I served mine with brown rice. I had made a salad dressing on the Saturday that needed a couple of tbsp's of coconut milk so had the remains of the milk waiting to be used up
One Sankranti season Dada, my brother and his friends had even made their own manja, stringing cotton thread between two poles and walking up and down rubbing the length of thread with a deadly gooey paste of rice, colour and finely crushed glass
