Chapatti is very common food stuff in the world. It could be termed as a-flat and well compacted bread. However, the easiest to cook chapatti does not have yeast. Some people add a little baking powder to soften the content and in other cases bicarbonate soda if milk is used to knead the dough. Chapatti can be made from whole wheat flour or sifted flour. The most nutritious though, is made from the whole meal. Sometimes the cook can knead the dough from a mixture of maize flour, wheat flour and sorghum. In this book, we shall be dealing with sifted flour chapatti. Chapatti is usually served in many occasions in Africa considering that not many families plant the wheat. In most homes, even where wheat is planted, it is rare to find a family who does not buy the sifted flour from the supermarket.
