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Dhalpuri Roti

Name: Dhalpuri Roti
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Trinidad and Tobago
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Salt; 250ml Water; 150g Yellow split peas; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 tsp Cumin powder; A pinch Turmeric; 4 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 2 Chicken Thigh; 2 Potato; 2 tbsp Curry Powder; 1 Onion

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Flatbread stuffed with ground yellow split peas, used to wrap curry — a Trinidad specialty.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dhalpuri roti is a flatbread made by wrapping boiled, ground yellow split peas mixed with cumin and garlic inside dough, then rolling it thin and cooking it. In Trinidad and Tobago, wrapping chicken, goat, or potato-and-chickpea curry in this roti is the standard lunch, and roti shops are everywhere in town.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a roti shop in Port of Spain, thin roti cook on a big griddle, are topped with curry, folded into squares, and wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 400g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 250ml
Yellow split peas 150g
Garlic 2 cloves
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Turmeric A pinch
Vegetable Oil 4 tbsp
Chicken Thigh 2
Potato 2
Curry Powder 2 tbsp
Onion 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the split peas with turmeric until just firm, drain, and process with garlic, cumin, and a little salt into a fine powder.
Knead the flour, baking powder, salt, and water, divide into 6, and rest 30 minutes.
Flatten each piece, wrap 3 tbsp of the pea powder inside, and roll thin into a round seam side down.
Cook on both sides in a hot frying pan, brushing with oil.
Fill with a curry of chicken, potato, and onion simmered with curry powder and wrap.

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