How To Make Potato Roti [+ recipe video] - The Tortilla Channel (2024)

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With only three ingredients and a little skill, you can make this flatbread. This recipe is much easier but just as delicious as roti with dahl filling. If you have never made flatbread roti before this might be a good version to start with. So, are you ready to learn how to make potato roti? Let’s get started!

How To Make Potato Roti

1. To make this recipe start by peeling a starchy potato and dicing it into small pieces to speed up the cooking process.
2. Cook the potatoes in boiling water. This takes about 12 to 15 minutes. Instead of boiling potatoes on the stove, you can also boil potatoes in an Instant Pot. This takes approximately 10 minutes.
3. Drain the potatoes and put them in a big bowl. Now you can mash the potatoes with a fork or a potato masher. If you want to add salt you can add it now and stir it through the potatoes.
4. Once the potatoes are mashed add 1 cup of flour. Stir the flour through the potatoes with the fork until the flour and potatoes are combined.
5. Then add another ½ cup of flour and again stir it through as well. With the final ½ cup of flour knead the dough by hand until you have a consistent and elastic dough.
6. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead the dough for a couple of minutes on a cutting board or the kitchen counter.
   
7. You can use this dough straight away if you want but some rest time is recommended. When you want to rest the dough brush it with vegetable oil and wrap the bowl with tin foil for 15 minutes.
8. Push the dough flat and cut it into 8 equal-sized wedges.
9. Take one piece of dough and roll it into a ball, press down on a floured board, and roll it into a flatbread using a rolling pin. Preheat a cast-iron skillet to medium-hot before adding the flatbread. You do not need to add oil or butter to the skillet.
10. Dry cook the flatbread for 30 seconds, then flip and cook the other side for 30 seconds. Flip again until you see brown patches.
11. Take the roti potato flatbreads out of the pan and keep them warm underneath a clean kitchen towel. This recipe yields about 8 roti flatbreads.

Easy Flatbread Recipe

I have this very old Surinam cookbook. It doesn’t contain any images at all. Can you imagine? The book contains a large number of recipes.

Of course, one of the recipes is the potato roti. Roti recipes are amazing just take a look at my father’s rustic roti with chicken which uses the roti as cutlery so you can eat it with your hands.

What is great about this flatbread recipe is that you only need three ingredients, that everybody has in their pantry.

I only know how to use these flatbreads for savory dishes but in Norway, they make potato flatbreads and add heavy cream, butter, and sugar to the ingredients to turn them into sweet potato lefse.

So, a very similar recipe but not used the same way.

See How To Make Potato Roti

Want to see how easy it is to make homemade potato roti? Take a look at the recipe video with step-by-step instructions in the recipe card below.

You can easily follow along and make this recipe at home.

How To Store Potato Roti

You have several ways to store flatbread. In all cases let them cool completely before storing them:

• Room temperature – you can store these flatbreads at room temperature when you plan on using them within a day or two. Put them in an airtight food container or a Ziploc bag
• Refrigerator – when you want to use them within a week you can store them in the fridge. Store them in a Ziploc bag or a food container
• Freezer – if you want to store them longer you can use my preferred way to store flatbread that is in the freezer. Put the flatbreads in a freezer-friendly container or a food bag for up to 3 months

How To Reheat Potato Roti Flatbread

You have several ways to reheat potato flatbreads:

• Cast-iron skillet – as you made the flatbread in a cast-iron skillet you can also reheat them in a skillet. Preheat the skillet to medium and dry cook the flatbreads for 30 seconds on both sides or until warm. Wrap in a clean kitchen towel
• Oven – you can also reheat the flatbreads in the oven. Preheat the oven to 375℉/190℃ and wrap the flatbreads in aluminum foil and heat for 5-7 minutes or until warm
• Air Fryer – preheat the Air Fryer to 350℉/175℃ for 3 minutes. Wrap the flatbreads in aluminum foil and heat for 3-4 minutes or until warm
• Microwave – you can also reheat the flatbreads in the microwave. Wrap in clingfilm and heat for 60 to 90 seconds or until warm

Serve Potato Flatbread Roti With

If you are wondering what to eat a potato roti with, take a look at these recipes:

• My father’s rustic chicken roti – this is one of my favorite recipes a recipe I learned from my father and an authentic Surinam recipe
• Lentil red curry – if you are vegan then this curry will complement your roti even more. Also, delicious if you are not vegan by the way
• Yellow chickpea curry – more curry recipes that contain chickpeas which are a great substitute for meat
• Spicy Thai red chicken curry – This Thai recipe is the ideal recipe for a roti recipe because the sauce and the potato roti go so well together
• Green curry – A green curry with loads of vegetables is also a great recipe to eat with your potato roti

More Flatbread Recipes

If you love flatbread there are so many different flatbread recipes to try. Here is a small selection if you like to make more flatbread recipes:

• Soft savory roti with dahl
• Soft butter roti
• Flavorsome soft vegan flatbread
• Tasty soft sweet potato flatbread
• Vegan red lentil flatbread
• Chinese scallion flatbread
• Avocado paratha flatbread
• Turkish Yufka flatbread
• 2-ingredient dough flatbread
• Liquid dough flatbread

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