How to Use chapati in a Sentence

chapati

noun
  • Like chapati, puri is made from a simple durum wheat flour dough.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2020
  • When their food arrived, the men leaned over the plates and tore into the stacks of chapati.
    — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Jackfruit is also cooked as a spicy stir-fry dish called kathal ki sabzi, often served with hot chapati.
    — Bon Appétit, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The next morning, Moju will take leftover chapati to make rolex.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Stir in the cream and cook for 1 minute, then serve immediately with rice or chapati bread.
    — ExpressNews.com, 31 July 2019
  • Immy's also sells two kinds of hot sauce, one mild and one spicier, and sides including greens and chapati, the wheat flabread.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The kitchen staff piled on the curry, yellow rice, mango chutney, dill raita, chapati bread and roasted chickpeas.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • To Zepeda’s credit, a thick flour tortilla is similar to chapati.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For the rest of the meal, any of the suqqars (diced and spiced meat stir-fries) paired with chapati is a good starting point to explore Somalian cuisine.
    — Omar Mamoon, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Lillian Olwa’s carrot and onion chapatis are a nod to her childhood growing up in Uganda.
    — Sarah Henry, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • Thank God the customers rolled in, and each one got a signature piece hot from his hands, no chapati allowed to cool, but thrown into the scrap bin if not taken right away.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Fuelled by rising wheat prices, the size of the chapati has reduced by half in the past four months—precisely the kind of inflation that has been at the heart of electoral issues.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2022
  • People would smell her cooking and start asking questions, then sample the chapati, bajia, fufu, egusi, chicken curry and sambusas.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Another casualty is mlawi, a doughy chapati-like semolina flatbread Tunisians serve with iftar or use as a sandwich wrap for a sohour pre-dawn meal.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The chapati has been a staple in east African countries since Indians introduced it through trading and then settlement during the colonial era.
    — Nakisanze Segawa, Quartz, 8 June 2022
  • Find an entire aisle of rice, another of spices and starches, an impressive selection of frozen naan, chapati and paratha, dry goods, frozen foods, beauty products, incense, housewares, ice creams and more.
    — Samantha Bakall | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Steps from the University of Minnesota campus, Afro Deli serves cheeseburgers, quesadillas, and other fast-casual fixtures alongside sambusas and chapati wraps.
    — Sarah Khan, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Many attempts to chronicle the history of the baleada rely on the findings of a historian named Julio César Zepeda, who posits that Hondurans adapted their thick flour tortillas from chapati, the flatbread popular in South Asian cuisine.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Garage Food Hall is Indy's newest culinary attraction, with more than a dozen local chefs serving everything from Venezuelan arepas and Peruvian pasta to Hawaiian poke and Indian chapati.
    — Amber Gibson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2021

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