MALABAR PARATHA

Ingredients

450 gm flour
2 eggs
150 ml milk
10 gm sugar
60 ml groundnut oil
100 gm butter
 A pinch of baking soda
Ghee to shaloow fry
Salt to taste
Method

• Mix the flour with the baking soda in a shallow bowl.
• Break the eggs in a bowl. Add milk sugar salt and oil and whisk.
• In the flour, pour the egg and milk mixture and start mixing. Knead to a soft dough. Cover the dough with a moist cloth and leave for half an hour.
• Divide the dough into six equal portion and make balls.  Make a roti shapped and greese the rolling surface with oil.
• Place a disc and stretch evenly on all sides till it is very thin and approximately 12-15 inches in diameter.
• Put melted butter over the surface. Then dust with flour. hold from two ends and gather while ensuring that there are many folds.
• Take out one end and start rolling to make another disc.
• Flatten each disc with a rolling pin into a round paratha, dusting with lour while rolling.
• Place the paratha on a heated tawa and half bake turning it over once..
• Put melted ghee all round and shallow fry both sides over low flame until golden brown.