How to pronounce Sel roti

Sel roti is written सेल रोटी where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /sel roʈi/. In plain English letters that is SELL ROH-tee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Sel roti?

Sel roti is a bread or pastry of Nepal. Where it comes from: All Nepal. People usually eat it on festive days, for breakfast and as a snack. Its main ingredients are rice. It tastes sweet.

Where Sel roti comes from

Sel roti is one of 15 signature dishes of Nepal on this map.

• Dhindo ढिँडो · Main dish · All Nepal

  Dhindo is a thick porridge made by adding flour gradually to boiling water while stirring, cooked from maize, wheat, millet or buckwheat flour; Nepalese cooking calls it the national dish and usually makes it from millet, served with a pickle of gundruk.

• Gundruk गुन्द्रुक · Main dish · All Nepal

  Gundruk is a dish of fermented and dried leafy greens that originated in Nepal.

• Sukuti सुकुटी · Snack · All Nepal

  Sukuti is dried meat of Nepalese origin, most often buffalo, though lamb or goat are also used.

• Aloo tama आलु तामा · Soup & stew · All Nepal

  Aloo tama, or aloo bodi tama, is a Nepali soup of fermented bamboo shoots, potatoes and black-eyed peas.

• Momo म:म: · Street food · Kathmandu Valley

  Momo are dumplings of thin wheat dough filled with minced buffalo, chicken, pork or vegetables, spiced with onion, garlic, ginger and coriander, and usually steamed.

• Dal bhat दाल भात · Rice dish · Hills of Nepal

  Dal bhat is rice (bhat) with lentil soup (dal), and it is the daily meal of Nepal, eaten twice a day by many families.

Food of Nepal

Dishes like Sel roti in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Sel roti:

• Kalai roti কালাই রুটি · Bread & pastry · Rajshahi, Bangladesh

  Kalai roti is a famous traditional flatbread of Chapai Nawabganj District in northern Bangladesh, made from a flour of mashkalai, black gram, and atap rice, with only salt and water.

• Pathiri പത്തിരി · Bread & pastry · Kerala, India

  Pathiri is a thin pancake of rice flour from the cuisine of the Mappila Muslims of the Malabar region of northern Kerala.

• Hoppers ආප්ප · Bread & pastry · Colombo, Sri Lanka

  Hoppers, appa in Sinhala and appam in Tamil, are bowl-shaped pancakes made from a fermented batter of rice flour and coconut milk, cooked in a small round pan so the edges are thin and crisp and the centre soft.

• Karelian pasty karjalanpiirakka · Bread & pastry · Karelia, Finland

  Karjalanpiirakka, the Karelian pasty, has a thin rye crust crimped by hand around a filling of rice porridge, sometimes barley or mashed potato, and is baked in a very hot oven.