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post #1 of 24
2/7/09 at 8:47pm
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Lately I have been on a fried bread kick. Generally I either make Jamaican dumplings or festival, beignets for breakfast and buy Naan from the super market. Today for the first time I found out they videos showing you how to make bread, I am amped.

Naan
http://video.about.com/indianfood/Naan-Recipe.htm

Jamaican dumplings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3zNNoIR38
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post #2 of 24
2/7/09 at 8:49pm
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Originally Posted by jpeirpont View Post
Lately I have been on a fried bread kick. Generally I either make Jamaican dumplings or festival, beignets for breakfast and buy Naan from the super market. Today for the first time I found out they videos showing you how to make bread, I am amped.

Naan
http://video.about.com/indianfood/Naan-Recipe.htm

Jamaican dumplings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3zNNoIR38

cool, I love flat breads and fried breads
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post #3 of 24
2/7/09 at 10:21pm
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Originally Posted by globetrotter View Post
cool, I love flat breads and fried breads

+1. Slightly OT, but I also love pappadums, which I cook in the microwave to avoid having to start a batch of oil.
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post #4 of 24
2/8/09 at 1:53am
Naan bread is great.
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post #5 of 24
2/8/09 at 3:07am
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Originally Posted by Spatlese View Post
+1. Slightly OT, but I also love pappadums, which I cook in the microwave to avoid having to start a batch of oil.

masala pappadums, hmmmmm
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post #6 of 24
2/8/09 at 10:32pm
Indian fried bread on the reservations. Best tasting thing after the long hike.

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post #7 of 24
2/8/09 at 10:40pm
roti>naan
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post #8 of 24
2/9/09 at 4:48am
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Originally Posted by Spatlese View Post
+1. Slightly OT, but I also love pappadums, which I cook in the microwave to avoid having to start a batch of oil.

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Try roasting them instead of the microwave.

I like fried pappadum but it ruins the oil, making hard to fry anything else after. I think its the soda bi-carbonate in the uncooked pappadums that causes the problem. If you like them fried, keep a separate frying pan just for the pappadums so you dont have to worry about the oil.
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post #9 of 24
2/9/09 at 5:01am
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Originally Posted by thekunk07 View Post
roti>naan

roti is the shit, hard choice I'm not sure what is better. I like Roti with Jamaican food alot.
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post #10 of 24
2/9/09 at 5:27am
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Originally Posted by jpeirpont View Post
roti is the shit, hard choice I'm not sure what is better. I like Roti with Jamaican food alot.

Is Roti the same as Chapati? I thought that Naan was cooked in a tandoor oven and chapati is fried on a grill. Where does Roti fit into this?
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post #11 of 24
2/9/09 at 7:35am
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Originally Posted by thekunk07 View Post
roti>naan

Paratha > Roti

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post #12 of 24
2/9/09 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by Alter View Post
Is Roti the same as Chapati? I thought that Naan was cooked in a tandoor oven and chapati is fried on a grill. Where does Roti fit into this?

I think that roti is the generic term that a person (at least a north indian) would refer to "breads" - if you want a basket of mixed bread, you ask for some "roti". in addition, in places where you have indian emmigrants, they refer to their breads as "roti" - so there is caribian roti and guyanian roti, variations on roti.

in many places in india, if you ask for "roti" you get "chapati". if you ask for "naan" you get naan.

chapati are basically a homemade bread - or at least one that doens't require special equipment. very often with whole wheat.

naan require a tandoor oven.

there are about a dozen other common grain based breads, too.

puri are great, too, but they are deadly - lentil based bread taht is fried so taht it swells up like a baloon. taste great but fatty
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post #13 of 24
2/9/09 at 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by Cordwinder View Post
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Try roasting them instead of the microwave.

I like fried pappadum but it ruins the oil, making hard to fry anything else after. I think its the soda bi-carbonate in the uncooked pappadums that causes the problem. If you like them fried, keep a separate frying pan just for the pappadums so you dont have to worry about the oil.

Microwaving them avoids this problem. Brush a small amount of oil on them (you really don't much at all), and they're done in 30-40 seconds. It is not very traditional obviously, but it works fine for me. Can you describe your roasting method?
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post #14 of 24
2/9/09 at 4:58pm
Navajo Taco = teh win.

Indian fried bread, homemade taco fixings on top. Mug of Kiltlifter beer. Perfection.
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post #15 of 24
2/9/09 at 5:18pm
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Originally Posted by Spatlese View Post
Microwaving them avoids this problem. Brush a small amount of oil on them (you really don't much at all), and they're done in 30-40 seconds. It is not very traditional obviously, but it works fine for me. Can you describe your roasting method?

Roasting works best if you have a gas stove instead of an electric one.
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