Katlama (Poor Man’S Pizza)
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Popular Central Asian pizza like dish, is mainly a big hit in Punjabi rural areas and Lahore. Basically, a street food and is a gigantic flat bread,covered in chilli paste and then deep fried. However I opted for a less oily version by shallow frying it. Fondly called as the poor man's pizza, it is sold in kilos and suffices a poor man's hungry family often. Try this amazing bread version to experience an economical pizza that too with a great taste and even the looks.
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Ingredients
- Whole Wheat Flour 2 cups
- Warm milk 1/2 cup
- Water 1/2 cup
- Nigella seeds 1 tbsp optional
- Salt 1 tsp
- Oil 1/2 cup
- Tomatoes large sized 6
- Red chilli powder 2 tbsp
- Coriander seeds crushed 1 tbsp
- Cumin seeds 1 tbsp
- Red chilli flakes 1 tbsp
- Red food colour 1/8th tsp optional
- gm flour or besan 4 tbsp
- Kasoori methi 1 tbsp
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Instructions
- Mix flour, salt and nigella seeds in a bowl. Add water gradually and knead into a soft dough. Rest it for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Now, for the making of the topping mix, take the tomatoes in a pan and add little water and boil them on low flame until tender. Cook until soft and the water is reduced. Cool and peel the skin.
- Add the peeled tomatoes, chilli paste or powder, gram flour and salt to a blender and whiz to a smooth paste. Divide this topping equally between two rotis.
- Heat oil in a big tawa. Dust a work top generously. Make 2 big balls with the dough. Roll each out into 10 inch slightly thick round rotis.
- While one side is cooking, briskly apply the tomato mixture on the upper side and sprinkle with crushed coriander seeds, cumin seeds and chilli flakes.
- Also, add the kasoori methi if desired. I did that to make it more tastier. Use oil equally between two katlamas.
- When one side is golden and crisp, flip it to cook the side with the tomato paste. It takes around 2 to 3 mins for the plain side to cook and 3 mins for the side with the tomato paste.
- Yummy and delicious to the last bite. Serve it hot with chaas and salad.
Notes
Red food colour is optional. Use kashmiri chilli powder for a bright red colour as i did. I did not use any artificial food colour. Urad dal or blackgram soaked well (and drained) and anardana powder also can be used as toppings.
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