How to Prepare Tasty Flat bread / roti with sourdough starter and carrot

Flat bread / roti with sourdough starter and carrot. Looking for an easy, sourdough starter recipe for beginners? Follow my no-nonsense guide for practical tips, tricks, and ongoing care. Before you know it, you'll have your very own bubbly, active starter ready to make incredible sourdough bread.

This dough originally appeared in my Savory Sourdough Babka recipe, where I roll cheese and herbs into the dough, cut the tube lengthwise, and twist both sides into a babka loaf to bake in a pan. It's quite delicious, but the original flatbread deserves its own recipe post too. Each day you "feed" the starter with equal amounts of fresh flour and water. Easy to have Flat bread / roti with sourdough starter and carrot just using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

1. of overnight feedings:.
2. 5 tbsp of sourdough starter.
3. 4 tbsp of whole wheat flour/ atta- Indian flour.
4. 4 tbsp of water.
5. of Dough:.
6. 1 cup of whole wheat flour.
7. 3 tbsp of coconut milk.
8. 50 gr of grated carrots.
9. 1/2 tbsp of salt.

As the wild yeast grows stronger If you stir the starter, it will feel looser than yesterday and be completely webbed with bubbles. It should also be smelling quite sour and pungent. Awful flattest worst sour dough bread I have ever experimented with. I used my sweet sourdough starter and the bread truned out great.

Flat bread / roti with sourdough starter and carrot Step by step

1. Feed your sourdough starter overnight. Using 5 tbsp starter from the fridge. Place in a higher bowl, add 2 tbsp whole wheat flour and 2 tbsp water. Mix it well, cover it loosely and leave it overnight..
2. The next morning, the starter will be hungry. Add 2 tbsp whole wheat flour and 2 tbsp water. Leave it for 1 hour, it will double in volume. It is the time to use it..
3. In a mixing bowl, add the 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1/2 tbsp salt, 3 tbsp coconut milk, starter (all of them). Mix them well and form a dough. Let it autolyse for 15 minutes..
4. Add the grated carrot. It will be a bit wet because of the juice of carrot. Add 1-2 tbsp flour. Knead the dough for 8 minutes. Let it ferment for 1 hour..
5. The dough will be double in volume. On your kitchen counter, sprinkle some flour. Transfer the dough to your counter, easily roll the dough and divide it into 6-7 portions..
6. Roll the dough into round shape and around 1/2 cm thickness. Smear little oil on top of the dough..
7. Heat the non-stick pan. Place the dough with the oil side facing the pan. Cook it for 1-2 minutes. Smear little oil on the other side of the dough that facing us. Then, flip the dough and cook for another minutes..
8. Transfer the cooked flat bread on the plate. Cook the same way for another dough..
9. Enjoy the flat bread with any curry or salad or just enjoy it plain..

It was a light fluffy bread, not heavy at all. My sourdough starter works amazing and bakes wonderful tasty breads. The problem I have is I have to make my dough very wet to get the holes in my bread. It is a very messy process and the bread comes out wide and flat. Not the look that I'm after!