Preliminary trials were carried out to determine the amount of
water to be added to the flour (200 g) to develop a non sticky
viscoelastic dough that could be easily rolled and sheeted to make a
chapatti (Gujral et al., 2012). The flour was mixed with optimum
water for 3 min in a laboratory pin mixer (National Manufacturing
Company, Lincoln, NE). The water required to form a non sticky
viscoelastic dough was reported as water absorption (g water/100 g
flour). Water absorption of wheat flour was 68.7 g/100 g while
blends containing barley flour at levels of 28, 56 and 84 g/100 g
wheat flour had water absorption of 71.3, 73.0 and 76.7 g/100 g,
respectively.