Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 8 no

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup maida or all purpose flour (for 8 small chapathis)
2. 4 tbsp cooking oil
3. Salt as per your taste

Ingredients for stuffing: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup rice flour
2. 1.5 cups water (depends on rice flour quality)
3. 1 tsp oil
4. Salt as per your taste

Instructions for making bili holige:

1. Take maida or all purpose flour and salt in a bowl.
2. Knead it into a smooth and soft dough by adding required water. The dough should be softer than chapathi dough.
3. At the end add in 2 tbsp cooking oil. Knead again, cover it and keep it aside.
4. Now let us prepare stuffing. In a deep frying pan take water, salt and 1 tsp of oil. And keep it for boiling.
5. When it starts boiling add in rice flour and stir continuously for 1 - 2 minutes.
6. Switch off the stove and cover it with lid.
7. Once it is cool, grease hands with oil and knead the rice flour dough well.
8. Now let us proceed with making of holige. There are 2 ways. One is with oil and the other one is with flour. Now let us look in to the oil method. Apply oil to your fingers, take a small lemon sized maida dough and make it flat. Place a lemon sized stuffing or rice flour dough over it.
9. Carefully bring the sides together and stuff the rice dough inside. Press it gently to flatten it.
10. Take a small polythene sheet. Apply oil and place the stuffed dough over the sheet. Apply oil to rolling pin as well and roll the holige or paratha using rolling pin.
11. Or if you are not comfortable with the oil method follow dusting flour method. Dust flour to your fingers, take a small lemon sized maida dough and make it flat. Place a lemon sized stuffing or rice flour dough over it.
12. Carefully bring the sides together and stuff the rice dough inside. Press it gently to flatten it.
13. Take a rolling board and dust it. Next place the stuffed dough over the board. Dust the flour and roll the holige or paratha using rolling pin.
14. Take a griddle or pan and heat it. Once it becomes medium hot, place the rolled holige or paratha over the pan.
15. When the bubbles start appearing flip it to cook th other side.
16. Cook on both sides. If you wish you can apply ghee or cooking oil while cooking. Serve it hot with seekarane or any other curry of your choice.

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