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layered bajra na rotla recipe | sev kadhi recipe | kathiyawadi thali recipe

Author Nehas Cook Book
3 from 2 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course, Thali
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
 

For layered bajra roti

  • 1 cup bajra flour
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ cup water or as required
  • Melted ghee
  • Coarsely crushed black pepper
  • Dry bajra flour

For sev kadhi

  • 1 litre sour buttermilk
  • 2 tbsp gram flour - besan
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp green chilli paste
  • 1 tsp ginger paste
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp ghee
  • ½ tsp mustard seeds
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 inch cinnamon
  • 3 cloves
  • 1 star anise
  • 1/8 tsp methi dana
  • Pinch of hing
  • 8-10 curry leaves
  • 1 tbsp chopped garlic cloves
  • ½ cup water
  • Some coriander leaves

For sev dough

  • 1 cup or 100 grm gram flour - Besan
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • Pinch of hing
  • ¼ tsp ajwain
  • 1 tsp oil
  • 2-3 tbsp water

For special tadka

  • 1 tsp ghee
  • Pinch of cumin seeds
  • 2 dry red chilli
  • ¼ tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder

Instructions

Making layered bajra rotla

  • in a mixing bowl, add water and salt. Mix well.
  • Then add bajra flour gradually and knead soft dough.
  • Now sprinkle some water and knead dough for 2-3 minutes till it become smooth.
  • take a medium size ball and flatten it out between your palm.
  • Now take a medium size ball and flatten it out between your palm. Flip the dough ball between the two palms and make thick roti. (Refer video)
  • Apply some ghee and sprinkle black pepper powder and dry flour on its top surface and fold it into half circle.
  • Again, spread ghee, black pepper powder and dry flour on it and again fold into a triangle shaped layered pattie.
  • Then merge edges slightly and gave pattie to round shape (refer video)
  • Now on rolling board, place a butter paper and dough ball on it. (you can sprinkle some dry flour instead of butter paper.
  • Now pat gently into a 6-inch diameter circle taking care not to put too much pressure as the layers will merge together.
  • Heat tawa on medium flame, then layered rotla onto the tawa to cook until golden brown on both sides.
  • Serve the layered rotlo hot with ghee smeared on the top.

Making sev kadhi

  • In a mixing bowl, add sour buttermilk, besan, turmeric powder, salt, green chilli paste, ginger paste and sugar. Mix well. Keep it aside.
  • Now in a pan, add ghee, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, methi seeds, hing and curry leaves. Saute it.
  • Then add chopped garlic and saute it.
  • Now add kadhi mixture and mix well. Stir continually till mixture starts to boil.
  • Also add ½ cup water in it. keep flame on medium and boil mixture for 5-7 minutes.
  • Meanwhile in a mixing bowl, add 1 cup gram flour, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt, hing, ajwain and oil. mix well.
  • Add water gradually and knead medium soft sev dough.
  • Now in a sev machine, place big hole chakri and grease it with oil. add dough in it and close the machine.
  • Then hold sev machine on boiling kadhi mixture and move it into circular motion.
  • Boil sev for 5-7 minutes into kadhi mixture, do not touch it, otherwise it will break.
  • Now in a tadka pan, add ghee, pinch of cumin seeds, dry red chilli and Kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix well and add tadka into kadhi mixture. Mix well.
  • Sev kadhi is ready, garnish with coriander leaves.

Notes

For sev kadhi
  • Use sour buttermilk for the kadhi mixture.
  • Do not add more gram flour (besan) to the kadhi mixture.
  • The kadhi mixture should be thin and without any lumps.
  • While boiling the kadhi, stir the mixture continuously.
  • Boil the kadhi mixture on a medium-low flame to ensure that the besan is cooked properly.
  • Do not add more water while kneading the sev dough.
  • Knead a medium-soft dough for the sev.
  • When the kadhi mixture is boiling, add the sev to it.
For layered bajra rotla
  • Knead a soft dough for the rotla.
  • Sprinkle a few drops of water and knead the bajra dough until it becomes smooth and free of cracks.
  • Sprinkle some dry flour so that the layers of rotla separate easily.
  • Cook the rotla on a medium flame. Do not cook it on a low flame.