Buss Up Shut Roti
Buss up shut (paratha)
Marie Mitchell · nigella.com · Serves: 6
Against 25 Trinidadian roti recipes
Less baking powder than 92% of recipes and less water than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 25 Trinidadian roti recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less baking powder than 92% of recipes: 1.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.5%.
- Less water than 88% of recipes: 69% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 72%.
Ingredients (7)
- 450 grams bread flour (plus extra for dusting)450 g
- ½ tablespoon baking powder≈ 7 g
- ½ tablespoon fine sea salt≈ 9 g
- ½ tablespoon soft light brown sugar≈ 7 g
- 300 millilitres hand-hot water or oat milk or whole milk≈ 309 g
- ½ tablespoon sunflower oil≈ 7 g
- About 100 millilitres sunflower oil and 100g melted ghee (have a bit extra, just in case), combined≈ 96 g
flour 450 gbatter 885 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 25 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water69% · 10th percentile · median 72%
- Baking powder1.5% · 6th percentile · median 2.5%
- Fat23% · 58th percentile · median 22%
- Sugar1.5% · 62nd percentile · median 1.1%
- Salt2% · 74th percentile · median 1.2%
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