Baked Amritsari Kulcha (Without Yeast - Punjabi Flatbread)
Baked Amritsari Kulcha is a yeast-free version of the iconic Punjabi flatbread from Amritsar — soft maida-based dough leavened with baking powder and baking soda, mixed with curd, sugar, salt, and oil, kneaded soft, then baked in an oven and brushed with butter, garnished with coriander, black sesame and white sesame seeds. Eaten with chole, dal, or any North Indian curry.
Ingredients
- Baking Soda (Food Grade Sodium Bicarbonate) — 0.25 tsp (whole)
- Curd — 3 tbsp (whole)
- Butter (optional) (whole)
- sugar — 1 tsp (whole)
- Coriander Leaves (optional) (chopped)
- Black Sesame Seeds (optional) (whole)
- Baking Powder (Double Acting - Fine) — 1 tsp (ground)
- Sunflower Oil — 1 tbsp (whole)
- salt — 1 tsp (whole)
- Water (optional) (whole)
- sesame seeds (optional) (whole)
- All-purpose Flour — 0.5 cup (ground)
Method
- To begin making the Baked Amritsari Kulcha recipe, in a medium sized bowl, add all the dry ingredients and mix it well.Gradually add water and then knead the dough.
- Make a soft dough and cover it and place it into warm place of your kitchen for 2 hours to ferment.After 2 hours, when dough is rising double in size, knead it again with some oil and device it into equal portions.
- Prepare all the kulcha in same manner.Take microwave safe plate, brush it with oil and place kulchas on it and rest them for 30 minutes.
- Preheat microwave at 180 degrees and bake kulchas for 10 minutes.
- Apply butter on top.Your delicious Amritsari Kulcha are ready to serve.
- Serve Baked Amritsari Kulcha along with Pindi Chole and Aam Ka Achaar for your weekend dinner.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Baked Amritsari Kulcha (Without Yeast - Punjabi Flatbread)?
- 95 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 30 min — 15 min prep, 15 min cooking.