Bale Hannina Chapathi is a Karnataka Rotti made with ripe Banana. It is served as a breakfast or an evening snack along with balehannina rasayana or mango seekarane during mango season.
If you talk about the side dish that's normally served with this flatbread, it's Balehannina rasayana which is ripe banana mashed and mixed with milk and served with this flatbread. This bread is a unique Malnad Style Rotti using the fruit and served with a spicy side dish as well. So if overripe bananas get transformed into cakes and muffins, you have another dish you can make.
This rotti is prepared by cooking the ripe banana in jaggery and adding the flour to knead the chapati. Bale Hannina Chapathi surely makes a wonderful snack and stays good for a couple of days. So I just warmed it for few seconds before enjoying it again.
As I had mentioned, for this theme, I had picked 4 different subthemes, one being Sweets and these sweet flatbreads are my twist for that theme.
Bale Hannina Chapathi is my choice for B in the A to Z International Flatbread. I had to repeat a few more Indian Bread and I hope I can be excused for my enthusiasm. I had a couple of other dishes like Batbout and Baleada for B. This rotti turned out the best.
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Bale Hannina Chapathi | How to make Karnataka Banana Rotti
Ingredients Needed:
1 cup Wheat Flour plus as required
1 / 4 cup Coconut grated
1 / 4 cup Jaggery more if needed
2 tsp Ghee
1 /4 cup Water
A Pinch Salt
2 small Banana
A Pinch Cardamom Powder
How to make Banana Rotti
Melt the jaggery and remove impurities. Then add a little more water and add the chopped banana pieces to it. Bring to a boil and mash well.
Once the banana is cooked soft, add grated coconut, ghee, and cardamom powder, combine everything well. Turn off the heat. Allow cooling.
Add wheat flour to the pan and mix well. Knead till you get a soft chapati dough. I used around 1 1 / 4 cup wheat flour. Grease with ghee and keep it covered for an hour.
When you are ready to roll, knead again and pinch out balls.
Dust with flour and roll out into 6-inch discs.
Heat the tawa on medium-low heat.
When the tawa is hot, transfer the flatbread and cook on both sides, finally apply ghee and repeat with the rest of the dough.
Eat the hot chapati with ghee.
Recipe
Bale Hannina Chapathi | How to make Karnataka Banana Rotti
Ingredients
- 1 cup Wheat Flour plus as required
- 1 / 4 cup Coconut grated
- 1 / 4 cup Jaggery more if needed
- 2 tsp Ghee
- 1 /4 cup Water
- A Pinch Salt
- 2 small Banana
- A Pinch Cardamom Powder
Instructions
- Melt the jaggery and remove impurities. Then add little more water and add the chopped banana pieces to it. Bring to a boil and mash well.
- Once the banana is cooked soft, add grated coconut, ghee and cardamom powder, combine everything well. Turn off the heat. Allow to cool.
- Add wheat flour to the pan and mix well. Knead till you get a soft chapathi dough. I used around 1 1 / 4 cup wheat flour. Grease with ghee and keep it covered for an hour.
- When you are ready to rool, knead again and pinch out balls.
- Dust with flour and roll out into a 6 inch discs.
- Heat the tawa on medium low heat.
- When the tawa is hot, transfer the flatbread and cook on both sides, finally apply ghee and repeat with rest of the dough.
- Eat the hot chapathi with ghee.
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Sandhiya says
My kind of roti, it is !! Sounds so delicious., Valli. Next time when i'm having ripe bannas ,instead of making bread, will give a try on this one!!!
manjulabharathkumar2016 says
wow such an amazing banana roti, looks so soft, jaggery roti are my favorite. I would love to relish these rotis with a bowl of aam ras now. Love the way you made small portion.Another fantastic flatbread selection valli, kudos to your choices ..
sapana says
Wow I have never had banana in roti. I once tasted banana sheera which my friend from Karnataka made but the roti sounds even more interesting.
vaishalisabnani says
Omg ! I had no clue that roti could be made from ripe bananas - so much to learn from you Valli . The roti is such a healthy one ! Bale! Bale ! For the Bale roti ????
Padmajha PJ says
I have never tasted this roti but sounds like something the kids will like! And this is an interesting way to make the dough with cooked banana! Awesome choice for sweet flatbread!
Harini says
I have had puris in a similar way but I am not sure I tried rotis. Great find Valli.
Pavani says
That is a very interesting roti with ripe banana Valli. I’m sure it must have tasted awesome with the addition of coconut and jaggery.
Suma Gandlur says
Didn't realize that there was a banana chapathi as well besides banana poori. Sounds yummy and flavorful with coconut, jaggery, and cardamom.
Gayathri Kumar says
Never heard of this before Valli. The combination of this roti and the rasayana is amazing. We always think of making muffins and breads with over ripe bananas while there is such an amazing Indian dish to make. Next time I am trying this with the bananas.
Sharmila - The Happie Friends Potpourri Corner says
Wow awesome kids friendly roti .. Have tasted a this in Bangalore street food festival .It is just out of the world!!
kalyani says
my mom's best friend introduced me to this, but its been ages since I made this 🙂 isnt there a flatbread u haevnt covered now ? gosh, u sure dig deep !
Priya Srinivasan says
superb choice valli, love the roti, i can imagine the flavor of mashed bananas and jaggery in the bread. Must be divine to eat it warm. Superb choice, will try this sometime!
Priya Suresh says
Can smell the flavor of this chappathi, very tempting and cant wait to make this rotis now. Definitely a kid's favourite dish. Definitely an interesting one.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
This is such a lovely flatbread Valli. I have never heard of it, but the way it is made sounds so delicious. My boys love nei appam and this is more or less similar except made as a chapati. I am definitely bookmarking this, you know for when 🙂
srividhya says
I know Karnataka is quite popular for sweet rotis and dosas. But never tried though. This sounds very interesting and as you mentioned instead of cakes and muffins, we can do this rotti with ripe banans.
mayurisjikoni says
Wow Srivalli, some years back when I was in Bangalore, my neighbor shared this delicious chapathi with us. She never gave me the correct recipe. Now that you've prepared, I'm going to try out this recipe.
Simply Tadka says
Very healthy and rich bread for kids and adults both.