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• Prep time- 35 mins
• Cook time- 30 mins
• Total time- 1 hour 5 mins
• Serves: 2 to 3
Ingredients
• 2 cups whole wheat flour/atta
• 1 to 2 tsp oil or ghee
• ½ tsp salt or add as required
• water as required for kneading the dough
• oil or ghee for roasting, as required
Flour
Water Salt
Oil
Instructions
Kneading dough:
• in a bowl take whole wheat flour. add salt, oil and water.
• mix and then knead into a smooth soft dough. add more water if required while kneading. cover and keep the dough aside for 30 minutes.
Triangular folded plain parathamethod:
• pinch a medium sized ball from the dough. flatten and dust with some flour.
• with a rolling pin, roll into a circle of about 4 inches diameter.
• spread some ghee on the dough circle. fold in a half.• now spread some ghee on this half folded dough.• fold sideways and this time you will get a folded triangle.• dust some flour on the folded triangle. now begin to roll
the folded triangle.• add some flour if required and roll into a circle of about 6
to 7 inches diameter.
The Methods• roll a medium sized ball on a lightly dusted board
to a circle of about 4 to 5 inches in diameter.• spread some ghee on the rolled dough.• bring one side of rolled dough towards the center
and press lightly.• now spread again some ghee on the folded part.• fold the opposite side of the rolled dough on top
of the folded part. press lightly.• fold the right side and bring towards the center.
spread some ghee on this fold too.
The Methods
• lastly fold the left side on top of the right fold.• sprinkle some flour on the folded paratha.• begin to roll. add some more flour if required
while rolling. roll into a square paratha.• heat tava and place the paratha on the tava. the
tava should be medium hot.• again spread some ghee on this second folded
part.• you will soon see the paratha puffing up from the
base at some places.
Method
Place the paratha on the heat tava and spread some ghee on this second folded part.
The Methods• flip the paratha when the base is ¼ cooked.
spread some ghee.
• flip again when the second side is about ½ cooked. you will see brown spots now.
• spread some ghee on this side now.
• flip again a couple of times till you see more brown spots and the paratha is cooked evenly. make all parathas this way. either serve them hot or stack them in a roti basket.
paratha is almost ready when the brown spots are seen on it
serve these plain parathas with any indian dal
