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Prata

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Breakfast, Snack, Bread, Baked

Tags: breakfast, medium difficulty, recipes for flatbread, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using clarified butter, recipes using salt, recipes using sugar, recipes using vegetable oil, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, snack, southeast asian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3APrata)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3APrata&oldid=4505494

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp melted ghee or vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
  • Additional ghee or oil for cooking

Directions

Dough

  1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and sugar.
  2. Add the ghee and mix well.
  3. Gradually add water while kneading the mixture until you get a smooth and elastic dough.
  4. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for at least 1 hour.

Shaping

  1. Divide the dough into small balls, each about the size of a golf ball.
  2. On a lightly oiled surface, flatten each ball with your hands. Then, use a rolling pin and your hands to stretch the dough as thinly as possible into a rectangle without tearing it. Ideally, it should only be 1–3 mm thick for greater flakiness later. If necessary, let the dough rest to help it relax.
  3. Brush the surface of the dough sheet with some ghee or oil.
  4. Fold one side of the dough to the center, then fold the opposite side over it. You should now have a long, thin strip of dough.
  5. Take one end of the strip and start coiling it into a spiral, like a snail shell. Tuck the end under the coil to secure it. Press the coil down with your palm to flatten it into a round.

Cooking

  1. Heat a little ghee or oil in a skillet or other flat pan over medium heat.
  2. Place a piece of the shaped dough on the pan and cook for 2–3 minutes on each side, or until golden brown and crispy. Remove from the heat.
  3. Repeat the cooking process with the remaining dough.

Notes

Allowing the dough to rest is important, as it helps in achieving a thinner, softer, and more pliable texture.

Serve hot with curry, sugar, or condensed milk.

For cheese prata, add shredded cheese while folding the dough before cooking.

For egg prata, spread beaten egg over the stretched dough before folding and cooking.