Roti Canai using Pizza Dough, a step by step
 
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Roti Canai using Pizza Dough, a step by step is an illustrated guide to making these delicious and flaky breads.
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Recipe type: Bread
Cuisine: Malasyian
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • 250g plain flour
  • 250g strong flour
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp dry yeast
  • 1 tbs oil
  • 325 ml warm water
  • 1 tbs ghee, melted
Method
  1. Place the flours, salt, yeast and oil into a large bowl.
  2. Slowly pour in the warm water and stir in with a butter knife till just combined.
  3. Start kneading and only add more water as it’s needed. Knead for 10 mins
  4. Place in a bowl, cover with cling film and let rest till double the size.
*After this rest you can either use all of the dough for roti or divide in half and use half for the roti and the other half for pizza – keeps in the fridge for weeks
  1. With your portion of dough, give it a little knead – just to knock the air out, and cut into equal parts. I made 8 golf ball size rounds, which makes a great entree size but you could make them as big as you want. Place these on a tray with cling film, spray with oil and cover with cling film. Place in the fridge for at least a day to rest.
  2. Remove from the fridge and let them sit for an hour.
  4. Rub a little oil on your work bench and squash down the dough with the ball of your hand. The dough is now extraordinarily soft and pliable, it is like working with nothing you have worked with before. Flatten the dough and with a little oil, pick up the edges and pull out, stretching it till it’s super thin. Don’t worry about holes.
  5. Brush with melted ghee
  7. Fold over one side to the centre. Try and trap air in the fold if you can
  9. Fold over the other side, you don’t need to be exact
  11. Then repeat. You will have a slender stick of dough
  13. Pick up one end and wind it back on it’s self so you end up with a scroll. Press the end of the dough under the scroll
  15. Do all your rotis and let sit for 15mins
  17. With your fingers, squash the roti balls down, you can make these quite thin if you like
  19. In an un-oiled low to medium heat, heavy based pan, place the rotis
  21. Cook for about 2.5 mins on either side
  23. Now they are ready to eat!
Recipe by Finding Feasts at https://www.findingfeasts.com.au/recipe-index/roti-canai-using-pizza-dough-step-step/