Plain Paratha Recipe

Plain Paratha (pan fried Indian flat-bread) is very crispy & flaky. It goes well with any kind of curry.

Ingredients for preparing Plain Paratha:

• Flour : 500 gm
• Refined oil : 1 cup
• Salt : to taste
• Sugar : ½ tsp
• Hot water : as required
• Black cumin seeds : 1 tsp (optional)

Procedure for preparing Plain Paratha:

• Sift flour in a bowl.
• Add1 tsp of salt, sugar, black cumin seeds, 1 tbsp of oil.
• Mix well using hand. Pour hot water bit by bit & make a soft dough.
• Cover the dough with a lid for 30 minutes.
• Divide the dough into 5 or 6 balls.
• Take a rolling pin. Roll out a ball using oil into circle.
• Brush oil on the circle & fold it to a semi-circle. Then again brush oil & fold it to half.
• Now again brush up oil & roll out this paratha keeping the same triangle shape.
• Like this make all the balls to triangle shaped parathas.
• Heat a non-stick pan & shallow fry the parathas one by one till golden brown using 1 tbsp of oil for each.
• Serve hot with any curry.