Fried Aduku rotti ( layered rotti)

This is an awesome sri lankan recipe.
It's made  with pancake sandwiches with keema filling and covered with a crispy rottie.
You can bake this or fry. So let's get started.

Ingredients

Pancakes

1. 200g plain flour
2. 1 egg ( optional)
3. 1/2 tsp salt
4. 1/8 tsp or a pinch of turmeric powder
5. Water

• Mix all together and add water. Make a batter ( thosa batter consistency).
• Pour the batter on a heated pan .
• Make thin pancakes and set aside.( can make around 10)

Outer cover dough 

1. 200 g flour
2. 25-30 g butter
3. Salt
4. Cold water

• Knead everything and make a smooth dough. Let it rest and make your keema.

keema

• 500 g beef ( minced meat)
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 large onion
• 1 large tomato
• 1 green chillies
• 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
• Chopped coriander
• 2-3 tsp red chilly powder
• 1/2 tsp pepper powder
• 2-3 tbsp curd / yogurt
• 1 tsp garam masal ( optional )
• 1/2 cup grated carrots
• 1 tbsp grated capsicum (optional)
• salt

keema prep..

• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add ginger garlic paste and onion.
• Let it fry until golden.
• Now add salt, carrots, beef and powder spices.
• Stir and cook until the meat changes its color.
• Add tomatoes, green chilies and capsicum .
• Cooke covered until the tomatoes lose their stiffness.
• Now add yogurt and coriander.Mix well.
• Cook covered until the minced meat is done.
• Now on high heat simmer the meat and turn of the stove.

Direction to make the layered rotti 

• Now roll the cover dough into a thin large circle.
• Keep a pancake on the center.
• Now spread some keema on the pancake.
• And again pancake and keema... Continue process until  5-6 layers or as much as you prefer.
• Now simply join the edges of the dough to cover the sandwich completely.
• Or take 1/2 cup of oil on a pot and fry both sides over low flame.