Kerala Parota

Ingredients

Maida - 2 cups
Wheat Flour - 1/4 cup
Eggs - 1 nos
Sugar - A little
Salt - As required
Oil - As required

Preparation

1)Mix together maida and wheat flour in a vessel.

2)Add egg, oil and salt and make a soft dough. Make sure to pat the dough hard on a clean surface to make it soft.

3)Cover the dough with a wet cloth for aleast 4 hrs.

4)Before making the porottas, knead the dough once again with hands by adding oil.

5)On a clean surface, rub oil.

6)Make small balls off the dough and roll them out like very thin chappathies .

7)Make pleats so as to look like a hand made paper fan.

8)Roll it holding on one end to form a round. This is done to get the layers. Then roll out to make it like a chappathi.

9)Put this roll with hands like small thick chappathies.

10)Once done, use both hands and pat on the sides of the  porotta  to get the layers.