Kerala Eggless porotta

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Kerala Eggless porotta

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :1 Hr 0 Min

Cook Time : 30 Min

Total Time : 1 Hr 30 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 13
  • 4 cups maida


  • 1 tsp salt


  • 1 tsp sugar


  • 1/3-1/2 cups oil


  • 1/2 cups water

Directions

  • Mix maida,salt and sugar in a bowl
  • Slowly add water to make it to a soft dough,drop a tbsp of oil and mix well
  • Keep the dough under moist cloth for atleast 2-3 hours
  • To knead the dough,grease you hands as well as work area with oil
  • Make balls out of dough and leave it on the work area,greased with oil
  • Take each roll and flatten it like chapathies using rolling pin
  • Make it to rolls and leave these for 10 min
  • Take each roll and spread it out to thin using rolling pin,make it super thin ie as large as you can
  • Spread oil while making to avoid tearing,even torns are there no problem
  • using fingers lift up one end of the sheet and make pleats moving towards other end
  • Once you are finished,hold one end of long strip and roll it towards the other end
  • Repeat the process for rest of dough
  • Leave a 10 min buffer to settle
  • Now make porotta by flattening these rolled dough by greasing more oil
  • Heat tawa on high flame,when heated up place the thick porotta on the tawa and cook both sides til it turns golden brown on medium high flame
  • Drizzle oil as your roast them
  • Repeat this on remaining porottas
  • Now the important part,place the cooked porottas in greased work surface and using the hand ,crush them together by clapping action
  • Repeat porottas cooked in this manner,so it will be more crunchy