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Indian Recipes - Mixing the Parathas

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Indian Recipes - Mixing the Parathas

 

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Indian Recipes - Mixing the Parathas

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour
Water
Oil
A pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Blend the flour and water together with a pinch of salt and knead the dough. Let it rest for 10-15 minutes.


2. Make a ball of dough and roll it with a rolling pin into a 6-8 inch disk. Apply a little oil and dust it with flour. Make a cut and start rolling it into a cone. Once the cone is formed, hold it from the top, hold the bottom in your other palm and press it down. Push it down, add a little flour and set it to rest for a few minutes.


3. Roll the dough again, nice and thin and place it on a griddle at medium heat. Flip it over and remove it when both sides are lightly browned.


4. Smear the paratha with oil, plate and serve.

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Hi, my name is Bhasin and this is Nicky. We are from the Bombay Curry Company in Alexandria and we are showing you how to make parathas, a multilayered Indian bread. In this segment, we are going to show you how to knead the dough.

She is going to dust it with little salt, a pinch of salt is enough or as per taste as much as you like and then she is going to add some water to it to make the dough. How much water do you need, just like every thing else in Indian cooking, I don t know.

You need enough water to make nice, stiff, semi pliable dough. It should be not too soft, because if its too soft then it is going to stick to the rolling surface or the rolling pin and if its too hard some people don t like that, because then its difficult to roll. So, just use enough water to make a medium bodied dough.

You want to knead it well and you want to make sure that it releases itself from the dish that it is been made in and it becomes a nice ball of dough. Then you want to give it a rest. Rest it for about 10-15 minutes to let all the gluten in it to work, let it do what it wants to do and then we are going to show you in the next segment how to make it into little balls, roll it and how to make its into a layered whole wheat flatbread called a paratha.

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