Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, soft, layered onion chapati. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Soft, layered onion chapati is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Soft, layered onion chapati is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Today is my second month participating in the #EattheWorld Recipe Challenge created by Evelyne of Culture Eatz! This month, we are celebrating Kenyan food and I made Chapati Za Ngozi (Kenyan Soft-Layered Chapati) for the event. Chapatis or 'chapos' as we call em in our part of the world - the awesome part of the world, are a perfect partner to stews and curries as well as grilled meats.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook soft, layered onion chapati using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Soft, layered onion chapati:

1. Take 500 g all purpose flour
2. Prepare Cooking oil
3. Get 1 medium onion
4. Make ready 1 tbsp salt
5. Make ready 2 tbsp sugar

I decided to give a step by step guidance on how to hack a soft layered chapati. The secret to a soft layered Kenyan chapati is the dough. A dough that is soft will also produce soft chapati's. Chapati, also commonly known as Chapo's, are common in Kenya and eaten with sukuma wiki, stew, nyama (meat) and are even taken on it's own with some tea.

Instructions to make Soft, layered onion chapati:

1. Finely chop the onion and soak in hot water
2. In another bowl, add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly
3. Rub in 5 tablespoons of oil till evenly mixed.
4. Add in the onions (together with the water they were soaked in) to the flour and kneed for approximately five minutes until it's even and soft. Let the dough sit for 30 minutes.
5. Cut out desired portions, roll then into circular shape, oil the top surface, fold as shown below and let them rest for ten minutes, covered with a cloth.
6. Roll out the portions and pan fry. once they form brown patches spread oil and fry each at medium heat till golden brown

In this recipe, I show you how to form the layers in the chapati in four different ways. The procedure for making layered chapati is similar to making ordinary/direct chapati. However, layered chapati( chapati za ngozi) requires extra time, extra oil and simple skills. Kenyans love chapati because they are always a great accompaniment for tea, soup, stew and vegetables. To make soft layered chapati the Kenyan way, you need all.

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