Sri lankan Coconut roti(pol roti, flat bread), a rustic flat bread made up of flour, grated coconut with diced green chillies and Onions for extra texture. vegan, vegetarian, breakfast
You’ll come across these Roti as a street food/ tea-time snack at stationary carts or road side restaurants.
They are usually served with a spicy lunumiris sandwiched between two rotis or with a curry, making it a very easy breakfast on the go.
At home, it’s ideal for Breakfast and dinner because of the ease of mixing up the dough.
They have a rustic feel to it and makes a quick breakfast carb for big families and crowds.
Of all the flat bread recipes out there, you’ll find this Sri lankan coconut roti is the easiest to make. Once you’ve made them a few times, you can just eyeball the ingredients without the usual measurement and make the rotis as you want.
I served the Coconut rotis with an extra milky Dhal curry and Lunumiris but you can serve practically anything, even hummus but serve them warm and fresh off the stove for best results.
I know a few ladies in my family who never need a flat surface to mold dough into perfect circles.
They make it look easy as they shape and mold the doughs into perfect disks, except for me of course, if you’ve been following and reading the blog you might have read about my problem with shaping any type of dough into circles.
You’ve heard about people being color blind, well let me introduce to shape blind me. Perfectly rounded disks are beyond me.
I got these done thanks to a lid I used to cut the circles off if not, these will actually be squares.
What can you serve with Pol roti?
For adults – you can serve it with a Dhal or Potato curry and Lunumiris with a good spicy chicken curry, even leftover meat curries would do. like I said earlier anything goes.
For the kids- they love it with palm sugar treacle or honey. My youngest loves to dab pieces of roti with butter and Sugar just like I did at her age and still do.
Recipe- Sri Lankan coconut flatbread(pol roti).
Please read the recipe instructions carefully to avoid mistakes
Serving size- Makes 9 small rotis that are 5 inches in diameter.
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1 tsp of salt or as per needed
1 cup grated Coconut
1-2 Onion sliced
1-2 Green chillies finely sliced (optional)
1 teaspoon of red chilli flecks(optional)
1/2 cup of water
oil as needed
Method
Sift flour with Salt
Add the grated Coconut, Onions and finely sliced Green chillies or red chilli flecks, incorporate the ingredients into the flour thoroughly while mixing, season with Salt if necessary.
Gradually add water to form a sticky dough.
Continue kneading and form a soft dough that leaves the side of the bowl. this should take less than 5 minutes. If you add too much water the dough will still be sticky after kneading for a few minutes, if this should happen sprinkle flour over the dough and knead until you get the consistency and a dough that is smooth and doesn’t stick to the edges of the bowl.
Apply Oil to your hands and transfer the oil to the dough.
Separate the dough into 8-10 balls.
On a lightly oiled surface, shape the dough into circles. too much oil on the surface on which you are forming the roti and you might not be able to get the roti off it without breaking if this should happen dust a bit of flour to ease the removal of the roti.
Form roti that are not too thin or else they will break.
For an efficient way to form the roti while cooking them, on your second roti place a flat skillet or pan over medium heat.
Lightly oil the pan and place roti to cook.
While keeping an eye on the skillet you can form the other rotis.
Cook one side of the roti, 2-3 minutes and flip over to cook the other side.
Once all the roti has been cooked, serve with your favorite curry.
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Sri Lankan coconut roti(pol roti)
Sri Lankan pol roti, a rustic flat bread made up of flour, grated coconut with diced green chillies and Onions for extra texture. vegan, vegetarian, breakfast
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1 tsp of salt or as per needed
1 cup grated Coconut
1-2 Onion sliced
1-2 Green chillies finely sliced (optional)
1 teaspoon of red chilli flecks(optional)
1/2 cup of water
oil as needed
Instructions
Sift flour with Salt
Add the grated Coconut, Onions and finely sliced Green chillies or red chilli flecks, incorporate the ingredients into the flour thoroughly while mixing, season with Salt if necessary.
Gradually add water to form a sticky dough.
Continue kneading and form a soft dough that leaves the side of the bowl. this should take less than 5 minutes. If you add too much water the dough will still be sticky after kneading for a few minutes, if this should happen sprinkle flour over the dough and knead until you get the consistency and a dough that is smooth and doesn’t stick to the edges of the bowl.
Apply Oil to your hands and transfer the oil to the dough.
Separate the dough into 8-10 balls.
On a lightly oiled surface, shape the dough into circles. too much oil on the surface on which you are forming the roti and you might not be able to get the roti off it without breaking if this should happen dust a bit of flour to ease the removal of the roti
Form roti that are not too thin or else they will break
For an efficient way to form the roti while cooking them, on your second roti place a flat skillet or pan over medium heat.
Lightly oil the pan and place roti to cook.
While keeping an eye on the skillet you can form the other rotis.
Cook one side of the roti , 2-3 minutes and flip over to cook the other side. Once all the roti has been cooked, serve with your favorite curry
I add a little bit of butter to the dough too.
butter works too, more the better!