Kerala Breakfast Dishes
Porotta Recipe
Ingredients:
- Maida - 2 cups
- Wheat Flour - 1/4 cup
- Eggs - 2 nos
- Milk - 1/2 glass
- Soda powder - 1/2 tsp or 1 tsp
- Sugar - a little
- Salt - as required
- Oil/Dalda - as required
Preparation:
- Mix together maida and wheat flour in a vessel.
- Add oil and the rest of the ingredients and make a soft dough. Make sure to pat the dough hard on a clean surface to make it soft.
- Cover the dough with a wet cloth for aleast 4 hrs.
- Before making the porottas, knead the dough once again with hands.
- On a clean surface, rub oil.
- Make small balls off the dough and roll them out like chappathis but in oval shape.
- Make pleats so as to look like a hand made paper fan.
- 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.
- Make sure to roll only on one side with the chappathi stick.
- Put this on a pan on low flame till the porotta is ready.
- Once done, use both hands and pat on the sides of the porotta to get the layers.
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