Triangular Parathas - Indian Bread

I had been waiting for Coffee to announce her MBP theme for the month. I visit so many great blogs every day and bookmark quite a few catchy recipes. The theme for this month is making bread from scratch. I happily went yeast shopping last weekend but didn't come across good quality one. So have postponed the baking to this weekend. What I did make are triangular parathas from one of my favourite blogs, Malabar Spices.

Triangular Parathas

These came out nice and soft, though I used minimum amount of oil.

What I Used:

Wheat flour : 2 cups
Salt : 1 tsp
Water : to make dough

How I Made It:

1. Add salt to the flour and mix well. Add water little by little till you get a medium hard dough. "The dough should be medium hard in texture. Not as soft as roti and not as hard as puri."


2. Divide into equal portions, approximately the size of a lemon.


3. Roll them out into circles and fold them thrice to make a long triangle. Smear oil in all the folds. "Do not make it too wide and thin. It should be about 4-6 inches and a little thick. Too thin and they turn out like papadams."

4. Cook on a griddle till both sides turn golden brown "and the layers start to rise and separate."

5. "The heat should be consistent in the initial phase of cooking to allow the layers to seperate. If the heat is too low, it will either turn hard and if it is too high, it will brown without cooking the inner layers."



Click here for Shaheen's photorial on how to make triangular parathas. Portions of the method of cooking are quoted directly from Shaheen's post.

Changes made by me: I did not add oil while cooking the parathas. I used gingelly oil in the foldsm since I like the flavour of this added to the smell of parathas cooking.

I served the parathas with egg curry.

This is my first entry to this month's Monthly Blog Patrol on making bread from scratch. She also wanted us to list our favourite smells in the kitchen. So here are my top three (in order).

(a) Ginger garlic paste frying with sauteed onions and oil.
(b) Smell of mummy's home-made ghee when its almost done.
(c) Smell of chocolate cake getting baked in the oven.

Special thanks to my roomie for helping me with this :)