Tawa is a flat frying pan. Usually it is useful to roast chapatti or any type of Indian bread. When somebody wants to cook a dry item and if at all needed to cook in pan fry style, then a tawa is used.

Some people prefer to have either rice or bread in their routine menu. People who don't prefer rice in their daily menu, like to have any type of semi dried item with bread. The tawa style becomes useful to the people like hunter tribes or dry wood pickers who are habituated to eat in flat dish or use a leaf as a plate because they cannot afford carrying utensils, and hence dry item came in to existence. Some spice like fenugreek seeds, black cumin seeds, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, aniseeds, fennel seeds, clove cinnamon sticks are blended together to make a nice mixture which are then used in tawa style.