Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe - Sweet Flat Bread

Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe is an Indian famous flatbread which is flavoured with saffron. It is very soft and fluffy flat bread, it can be eaten along with different kind’s curries. It is considered as one of the rare delicacies from Hyderabad and Lucknow.

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Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe - Sweet Flat Bread
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Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe is an Indian famous flatbread which is flavoured with saffron. It is very soft and fluffy flat bread, it can be eaten along with different kind’s curries. It is considered as one of the rare delicacies from Hyderabad and Lucknow.

It is traditionally baked in a tandoor oven. In the early stages, it was made like a roti but later on, it was made little thick in the form of Naan.

Serve the Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe with Dal Banjara Recipe (Langar Wali Dal) to make it a comforting Lunch meal.

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Cuisine: Awadhi
Course: Lunch
Diet: Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Pure Iron Roti Tawa
Prep in

30 M

Cooks in

10 M

Total in

40 M

Makes:

4 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1-1/2 cups All Purpose Flour (Maida)
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 2 Saffron strands
  • Salt , to taste
  • Ghee , for cooking

How to make Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe - Sweet Flat Bread

  1. We begin making the Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe by mixing all the ingredients in a mixing bowl.

  2. Add milk slowly and knead it into a chapathi dough, it should not be very sticky also.

  3. Rest the dough covered in a warm place for about 30 minutes.

  4. Once it risen, punch the dough and knead it again, and divide them into medium shaped chapati balls to roll it.

  5. Roll them on a board to a 2 centimetre thickness and heat a nonstick tawa and cook the roti evenly on either side till it is golden brown. Add oil on either side while it is getting toasted.

  6. Serve the Awadhi Style Sheermal Recipe with Dal Banjara Recipe (Langar Wali Dal) to make it a comforting Lunch meal.