Mughalai Paratha (Pratha) Restaurant Recipe

Paratha is flat bread fried on the griddle About Paratha . We will make Mughalai Paratha, served at my restaurant.

Mughalai Pratha is made with Naan Atta What is Naan Atta? How to make Naan Atta?

Ingredients

1. Atta: 1 Cup

2. Maida: 2 Cup

3. Salt: 1 teaspoon
4. Ghee: 1½ Tablespoon

5. Cilantro: ¼ Cup, washed finely chopped
6. Yogurt: ¾ Cup
7. Philadelphia Cream cheese: ¾ Cup

Melted Ghee for brushing layers, and frying

Maida for dusting to roll out dough

Method

Step 1 Making Dough

1. Sift Atta, Maida and Salt
2. Cut-in Ghee. Mix well till it all resembles like crumbles.

3. Mix in Chopped Cilantro
3. Blend yogurt and cream cheese to a smooth paste. Use electric blender.
4. Add yogurt paste to Atta mix to make smooth dough. Knead for at least five minutes.
5. Gather dough into a ball. Cover it with damp kitchen towel or a plastic film wrap. Let it rest about one hour at room temperature.

6. Divide dough into 8 parts. Roll each part into a ball. Each dough ball will make one Paratha.

Step 2 Rolling Paratha

Roll out dough ball into a 6" round disc about the thickness of two Nickels (5ç coins). If you want to make layered Paratha, see following. We made square Paratha.

Triangular

Square

Spiral

Step 3 Frying Paratha

Heat the griddle (Tawa). Put a test bread about the thickness of a Dime (10¢ coin) on the Tawa. If the bread sticks to griddle, you need to increase heat. If the bread gets brown spots too quick, it is too hot. It should develop brown spots on the underside in about 30 seconds. Now the Tawa is ready. The Paratha is cooked in four steps

1. Cook the rolled out Paratha over griddle for about 45 seconds to 1 minute. Lift the corner of the Pratha with Turner. The underside should have a few brown spots.

2. Turn it over and cook another 45 seconds to 1 minute. Baste the top (cooked surface) with Ghee.

3. Turn it over, cook the basted surface another 45 seconds to 1 minute. Baste the top (cooked surface) with Ghee.

4. Turn it over, cook the newly basted surface another 45 seconds to 1 minute.

Yogi's Notes

Don't baste a surface which has not been cooked yet.