Frankie (Tibbs style)

Frankie (Tibbs style)

Ingredients:

(Makes about 15 Frankies)

For The Rotis:

3 cups All purpose flour

3 slices of whole wheat bread
Non-stick cooking spray

Salt to taste

For the Stuffing:

Part 1
4-5 large potatoes (boiled, peeled and mashed)
3/4 tsp chilli powder
3/4 tsp turmeric

3/4 tsp dhaniya jeera powder
2 tbsp finely chopped cilantro

Salt to taste

(sometimes instead of red chilli powder I have used ginger and green chilli paste)

Part 2
2 tbsp dried mango powder (amchur)

2 tbsp  Sanchal (kala namak)

Part 3

3 small red onions (thinly sliced)

(add a few drops of lime juice and salt to reduce the excess pungent nature of the onions)

Part 4

2 green chillies (Finely chopped)

1 tsp soy sauce

3 tbsp white vinegar

Method:

For the rotis:

1. In a large deep bowl add the all purpose flour. Then soak the 3 slices of bread in warm running water and squeeze of most of the water from it and then make little pieces of it and add it to the flour.
2. Add water to this mixture and blend it with a hand blender. If you don’t have a hand blender, then blend it in a blender.
3. Once it reaches a thick batter consistency (somewhere between idli and dosa consistency), stop blending and add salt to taste.
4.  Don’t make it too thin. If it does become too thin, add some more flour and another soaked bread and blend it again.
5. Use a ladle and start scooping the batter and spread it on a non-stick dosa pan.
6. These rotis are supposed to be little thick so do not spread them on the pan as thin as you would for a dosa. More like a paratha thickness. (about 6-8 inches in diameter)
7. Cook the roti, till it is slightly brown on both sides.
8. You can make them oil free by just using cooking spray.

For the stuffing:

1. In a deep bowl, mix the mashed potatoes with all the masala and cilantro.
2. Once mixed, make long patties and cook them on a non-stick tawa till they are light brown on both sides.
3. Again you don’t need to use oil, just use cooking spray.

Now in a small separate bowl, mix the amchur and kala namak. In another bowl, combine the soy sauce, white vinegar and chopped green chillies.

Assembling the Frankie:

1. Heat your tawa on a medium flame.
2. Make a small assembly line starting with roti, potato pattie, thinly slices onions, soy-vinegar mixture and amchur-kala namak mixture.
3. Heat your roti and pattie on the tawa. Once the roti is warm/kadak enough, place the potato pattie on it in the center and give it a nice press.
4. Then add the onions, soy mixture and the amchur mixture.
5. Roll up your Frankie and voila its ready to be hogged.

My mom used to spread Pudina chutney in the Frankies and it tasted great. My husband likes to spread Schezuan chutney in it. You can make these with so many variations like paneer, cheese, chhole or egg.

The key is getting the rotis right. Also, be careful not to add to much of the amchur mixture or the soy mixture else it will become too khatta and too namkeen.

Enjoy!!