Paratha Recipe: How to make Plain Paratha Recipe

Paratha or Paranthas are a category of Indian Breads that are very popular. It is made in every house. Every home as its own way or method of making parathas.

I usually make parathas when I make a rich gravied dish like butter paneer, aloo chole, malai kofta.

I use this technique of making plain parathas very often. I call it the folding technique for making parathas.

I make parathas as mentioned in this post or the lachedar parathas. The Lachedar Paratha recipe is on the following link: Lachedar Paratha

For the parathas you will need:

• 2 cups wheat flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tsp ghee
• salt

How to make the Parathas:

Combine all the dry ingredients for the dough. Add water, ghee and form a smooth dough. Add more water or ghee if required. Cover the dough and keep aside. The dough should be pliable and soft…… not hard.

a: Roll the paratha into a disc of 3-4 inch diameter.

b: Apply ghee on this disc.

c: Fold the paratha as shown in the pic below.

b: Now again Apply ghee on this fold.

c: Again fold it.

d: Now sprinkle some wheat flour and roll the double folded dough into a triangular or square shaped parathas or circular shaped parathas (the last one requires a little bit of practice ). You could apply ghee and fold once more into a triangle if you wish too.

e: Fry the Parathas  on griddle or tava with ghee. Serve the parathas hot with dal or any indian vegetable curry.

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