Have you ever tasted Mangalore buns? They are delicious pooris made with banana in the dough. That gives it an slight sweetness and a nice banana flavour. Served with a spicy coconut chutney it tastes amazing. The only drawback is that it is deep fried and made with maida/ all purpose flour. When I made it for ICC, we had a wonderful time. But now being so health conscious, I am rarely deep frying. You would have come across recipes deep fried this month and they were the only ones I have deep fried in an entire year. So when I saw the healthier version of the Mangalore buns, I selected it immediately.
For all the tough alphabets, I have been making Indian dishes and this is one among them. I made the list six months back and this is one of the recipes I made at the beginning. I have been making flat breads since then for week end lunch for my daughter. She loves bananas and she can live on that for weeks. If we have numerous snacks along with bananas, Sruti would always choose bananas over the other snacks. So I know that she would love these rotis. And I guessed right, she loved them. If serving for adults, you need to make a spicy chutney for the side, but my daughter didn’t need any. As these rotis were cooked in ghee, these turned out so flavourful.
Makes 4 Rotis
Recipe Source: Healthy Cooking With Mitha
Ingredients:
Banana – 2, medium sized
Wheat Flour – 1 cup
Curd / Yogurt – 1/4 cup
Sugar – 1 tbs
Cumin Seeds – 1/4 tsp
Pepper – 1/4 tsp
Ghee – 1/2 tbs
Salt – to taste
Baking Soda – a pinch
Procedure:
In a bowl, mash together banana, sugar, salt, pepper, cumin, baking soda and yogurt.
Add in flour and mix well. Add ghee and mix to incorporate.
Add one or two teaspoons of water only if needed.
Once the dough is soft and pliable, divide it into four equal portions.
Apply some oil on the board, place a potion and with the help of your finger tips shape it into a thin disc.
Transfer it to a tawa and cook both sides until they are brown.
Drizzle ghee while cooking the roti.
Serve it hot out of the tawa.

Vastad Roti Recipe
Ingredients
- Banana - 2 medium sized
- Wheat Flour - 1 cup
- Curd / Yogurt - 1/4 cup
- Sugar-1 tbs
- Cumin Seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Pepper - 1/4 tsp
- Ghee - 1/2 tbs
- Salt - to taste
- Baking Soda-a pinch
Instructions
- In a bowl, mash together banana, sugar, salt, pepper, cumin, baking soda and yogurt.
- Add in flour and mix well. Add ghee and mix to incorporate.
- Add one or two teaspoons of water only if needed.
- Once the dough is soft and pliable, divide it into four equal portions.
- Apply some oil on the board, place a potion and with the help of your finger tips shape it into a thin disc.
- Transfer it to a tawa and cook both sides until they are brown.
- Drizzle ghee while cooking the roti.
- Serve it hot out of the tawa.
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Am in love with those rotis, healthy version of Mangalore buns who will say no to them. Even am getting more conscious nowadays when its comes to deep frying. I seriously miss mangalore buns, will make this rotis soon to please myself.
Same pinch Gayathri. I also referred the same source and we loved the rotis. You have done a marvelous job as well.
After reading about these rotis at Harini’s place now I see another version of these banana rotis which are so unique and absolutely new for me . Shruti is a very good child and it amazes me that she is not at all fussy . She enjoys her moms creations , which are so well prepared .
Great pick with V and unique bread for me.. Love the addition of banana.
I loved this vastad roti as banana included while kneading the dough. I am sure the taste would be heavenly. kids will love it.
Excellent choice and so good that Sruti liked this. Nice to know kids enjoy banana as well as its so healthy and should be included daily. This roti no doubt is a good choice over deep fried version!
Same pinch Gyathri, made the same and we really loved the slight sweetness and the softness of the roti. I served it with a dal.
This looks so yummy and healthy. A perfect pick for the letter V. Love your presentation.
The Roti version of mangalore buns sound so yum! My daughter too loves bananas ans will have them for every meal!
I am going to try this recipe very soon. Love the flavors and the mild sweetness from the banana. This is a great recipe to use the over ripe bananas.
My son loved your Vastad Roti recipe. He calls it meethi roti as he can not pronounce Vastad.