Paratha

Intro
I love Indian food but we live miles away from a town with an Indian restaurant so I have learnt how to cook curries - easy and yummy. The next challenge was bread and this weekend I finally made layered bread - so easy and so, so delicious.

Recipe

• 350g plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tblsp oil
• about 175ml hot water
• 3 tblsp ghee

Place the flour and salt into a food processor, add the oil and pulse until its 'rubbed' through. Slowly tip enough hot water through the funnel until a soft dough forms.

Knead for 5 -10 minutes until it is no longer sticky. Divide into 16 balls and roll each one out thinly to a 20cm circle. Brush with ghee, fold in half, brush with ghee then fold into a small triangle (one corner to the centre of the curved edge other corner over the doubled layer). Roll the triangle out quite thinly on a floured surface.

Heat a heavy frying pan and dry fry the triangles for 2 or 3 minutes per side until brown specks appear.

When they are all done, tip ghee into the frypan and gently fry the parathas until golden brown (1 or 2 mins each side). Keep fried parathas warm by wrapping in tinfoil until all are cooked).