Ingredients
Method
- In a small pan mix the warm water and jaggery. Allow the jaggery to seat in the water until it dissolves completely.
- Wash the methi leaves until the water runs clean. Ideal way to clean the leaves is to soak them in water for a while and keep changing the water until it runs clean.
- Roughly chop the fenugreek leaves.
- Make a rough paste of chillies, ginger and garlic cloves in a chutney grinder.
- To make the dough - in a parat or large mixing bowl add both the flours, oil, sesame seeds, chilli paste mixture, yogurt, turmeric powder, salt and chopped fenugreek leaves.
- Using the jaggery water and curd knead the dough. The jaggery mixed water and yogurt mentioned are enough to knead the mixture in a semi-stiff dough.
- Allow the kneaded dough to rest for 8-10 minutes, not any more. If allowed to rest more the leaves will release water and it would be difficult to roll the thepla.
- Divide the dough in 15 lemon sized balls.
- Using some bajra or wheat flour to aid rolling, roll the thepla in small disks of 5 inch diameter with 1/4 inch thickness. You may adjust the thickness of the thepla to your preference. These flatbreads are not very thin.
- As you begin to roll, put a griddle on medium flame and once it has pre-heated begin cooking the thepla. First dry roast them on both the sides and then shallow fry them using a teaspoon of oil for each thepla. The thepla need to have the light brown spots on the surface.
- Repeat until all the dough balls have been rolled into thepla.
- Arrange them on a wire rack and once they have cooled completely stack them and store in an air tight container.
- The thepla remain well for couple of days after which they begin to dry up and loose their softness.
- Serve the Methi Na Thepla with chutney and pickle of your choice.
- Enjoy them as breakfast or quick lunch or with tea.
Notes
If you wish you may increase or decrease the ratio of whole-wheat and bajri flour. Bajri is a millet that provides warmth and strength hence, urban Gujarati household prefer having more of Bajra flour during winters. You may not use oil at all for cooking but the oil-free thepla will need to be eaten straight away and might not taste as soft as fried thepla would.
