Monday, January 23, 2012

Kerala Porotta

Ingredients
Maida: 1 ½ cups
Wheat Flour: ½ cup
Luke warm milk: needed to knead the dough (can use water instead)
Egg: 1 (optional)
Sugar: 1tbsp
Salt: needed
Oil: needed
Method of Preparation
Take maida, wheat flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.
Add the egg to it and mix well with hand.
Then add luke warm milk and knead the dough well.
Take time and knead the dough, when it comes soft apply oil on the dough and cover with a muslin cloth and keep in air tight container for 2 hours.
Divide the dough into 10-12 equal balls.
Take a ball, apply oil and flatten to the maximum that u can do, no need worry of the shape, make it very thin.
Again apply oil on top and make small pleats from one end to the other end (like saree pleats).

Then hold the one end of the pleated dough and rotate and make to a spiral shape.

Repeat the procedure on all the balls and smear some oil on top of all spiral shaped dough.

Again cover this with a wet muslin cloth and keep for half an hour.
Heat a pan to a medium heat
Flatten the spiral shape to the shape of chappathi/porotta (not too thin, then porotta will not be soft)

Transfer the porotta to the hot pan and cook until it is done by applying some oil on each turning. Small brown spots will appear on porotta. Take it out and keep in an air tight bowl
When 3 or 4 porottas are done,place them in a flat surface and holding them between hands ,beat the hands together.(Just like clapping,but 3-4 porottas are between).do not beat them soo hard such as you break the porottas..:)
We are doing this, just to seperate the different layers.Remember this does not add anything to the taste.
Delicious soft porottas are ready to serve.

Sending this to Kerala Kitchen Event hosted by Kaveri

32 comments:

Mahi said...

Our family favorite Parotta! Looks yummm!

I tried your pumpkin curry..turned out tangy n delicious..thanks for the quick recipe Faseela! :)

Anzz said...

Faseela your porotta looks perfect, like the ones we get from the hotel. Loved it. Bookmarking this recipe..!

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Roshu said...

Perfect porottas for the porota lovers like us.....goes with chicken roast...yummy

Sumi said...

Lovely parottas, gonn trythis version.Love the picture too.You got a nice blog here.

Roshni said...

looks perfect faseela. i tried once before. did not come off great... you did not use any baking powder/soda etc??

Deepthi KR said...

Hi faseela,
Every day I comment or not I will stop by ur blog, I love reading your blog. This kerala parathas rae my hubbys fav. I'll try it for sure. Keep posting!!!!

Nalini's Kitchen said...

Wow!!!!Faseela tempting and mouthwatering parotas,love to have it with mutton or chicken curry.Perfectly made dear.

Reva said...

Parotta is my favourite..:)) Loved it... Awesome..
Reva

Vineetha Sush said...

Wow..good job dear..I love this,always buy it ready made ,never tried it :)

Priya Suresh said...

Mouthwatering here, wat a terrific and super tempting parottas..

Vegetarian Surprises said...

This looks good...we as Punjabis have never used maida to make paranthas...but I feel like trying this :) good job.

Hema said...

I do parathas the same way but yours look very perfect and flaky, will add the one egg next time and try..

Christy Gerald said...

Parota luks super softly layered fine.Yummy.

Myvegfare said...

Beautiful clicks faseela, Parotta looks delicious.. Yumm....,

Gayathri Kumar said...

Parotta looks perfect...

Hamaree Rasoi said...

Delicious and yummy looking Kerala Parota. You truly are a versatile cook. Excellent post.

Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

Kaveri Venkatesh said...

Wow! Faseela, These look so perfect..They are my favorite..am going to try them out soon.

Sudha said...

Have heard of Porotta before but never had it - you photo tells me its yummy!Thats a beautiful way of making it and the details in your post will be so helpful when I try to make this:)Also I love how one day you are baking cakes like a pro and just the next,you are rolling away dough for a sumptuous Porotta - you are such a talented cook dear!

Reshmi Mahesh said...

Porotta super aayittundu...perfect with chicken curry..

Jaleela Kamal said...

nice layer parratha i also preparing the same..
our family favourite

Mélange said...

Perfectly made Faseela..Superb!

Deeps @ Naughty Curry said...

wow! these look so proffesionally done with all those beautiful flaky layers...

Lifewithspices said...

Beautifully made love the layers ..

jasna varcakovic said...

I wish I could make it right now...

Prema said...

wow perfect done it,lovely pictorials...too gud recipe...

Ganga Sreekanth said...

ente fav aanu.kure try cheythu nokki.sariyayittilla..ithu kidilan aayittundu:)

Asiya Omar said...

nice explanation,tasty parotta.

Sensible Vegetarian said...

Perfectly made, looks so good.

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Nisha said...

Very nicely done!! Looks great :)

Teena said...

wow..this has come out perfectly! I've just watched my mom prepare. But never tried it myself. You gave me an inspiration to make them!

Ayşe said...

Hi Faseela,
I love your blog. Kerala porotta looks very delicious. yummy! I am a bread-monster. I should try this asap :)