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Indian Recipes - Roasting and Presenting the Paratha

Chef Bhasin Balraj demonstrates how to make the Indian dish, Parathas, including how to roast and present the final dish.

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Indian Recipes - Roasting and Presenting the Paratha

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, I am Bhasin from the Bombay Curry Company, showing you how to do the parathas, a multilayered flatbread from India. I am showing you version two where we are going to finish cooking the paratha on an open flame. We had put it on the griddle to cook and what had happened was we had cooked it. We want it cooked, but we do not want to overcook it. Now, this is cooked perfectly and this is it, this is done. Now, I can just take this paratha. Now, this paratha is kind of half done, it needs a little more grease and a little finishing. But, if I do it like this, I can make a whole stack of them, I can freeze them, after I cool them I can freeze them. So then, when I need to eat a paratha, I do not have to make my dough, I do not have to make those stupid dough balls. I do not have to roll it, I am way ahead, I just take it out of the freezer and -- we will pretend it is out of the freezer and then I am going to just put it on an open flame.

This is another way of doing it and we will roast it on an open flame. Some people like this paratha for two reasons. One, here you use a little less oil or little less fat, so that s good for people, also when you cook it over a open flame like that , what it does is, it gives it a slightly different charred flavor. In that flavor, it is desirable for some and that is exactly what it is. This is almost done. See the blistering we have finished cooking it. Now I have been doing this for a while. So I keep flipping it now, off and on without much of a problem, but when you are going to do it, I think you want to be careful, make sure you follow all the regulations in your area and also be very, very careful. You are playing with fire and it is important that you don t hurt yourself. Now see, it is all done very nicely done. Now here we are this paratha is done. Now I can serve this paratha, which was version two, two ways. Either I can serve it like this, crack it up like we cracked up the other one or add a slight hint of oil on it, not too much and then crack it up. Now watch, you see the layers in this, you see the layers, these are the layers, these are the layers that we are looking for.

That brings us to an end of our paratha session. I hope you enjoy making them and happy eating and remember as I say every time, time and again Indian food is never a problem. It s always what you do, it s all as per your taste, you do it the way you want you are never wrong, you are always right.

by darrant at 07/26/09 12:21AM Flag

great work Bashin. I can't wait to start cooking my own food after moving out of my parents' house.

cooking parathas by pal8809 at 07/18/09 01:57PM Flag

i m from jodhpur rajasthan , i will definity make it but tell me about flour ur using

salutes from mexico by trinkafront at 08/02/08 06:23AM Flag

HIP, HIP HURRAY!!! LOVE INDIAN FOOD, I LIVE RIGHT ACROSS THE BORDER WHIT TEXAS, NEW LAREDO TAMPS. MEXICO. THANKS FOR GIVING YOUR WONDERFUL RECIPES. YOUR TRULY , YEYCOB

Looks easy by beckyk at 07/25/08 07:55PM Flag

I will definitely give this a try. Looks easy and delicious.

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