“Our Daily Bread”

Dal is a nutritious food.  How about adding a handful of dal to our daily bread?

In India we have been using Sabut urad/ Black gram in roti/flat bread since very early times.

Here is a small story about kala roti.  The English translation of kala roti is black bread.  Since the gram is black (kala), the colour of the roti remains so and hence its name – kala roti.  In the harvesting season, after the first day of Black gram harvest, some workers would take a handful of the fresh black gram, grind them with stones and then mix with wheat flour to make roti.

All the workers would be fed with these rotis before they set out to work.  Black gram rotis are very filling and nutritious, so the workers work happily the whole day. 

Dalonthetable tried out 6 different coloured bread – Brown, Yellow, Black, White, Pink and Green with different dal and pulses with success.

Happy Baking 4 Healthy Breakfast !