Lacha Paratha
By: Saraswathi Ganeshan
Published: Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 10:33pm

Ingredients




Ingredients:
1 cup All purpose flour/ Maida-
1/4 cup Whole wheat flour-+ for dusting
1/2 cup Warm water-
2 teaspoons Oil/ ghee-
Oil- As required
Salt- As required

Preparation

1 Mix both the Flour, salt, oil well. 2 Add Warm water to the flour & knead well as a firm dough as we do for Chapathi. 3 Coat the dough with 2 drops of oil & cover with wet cloth &; rest it for an hour. 4 Knead the dough again & divide it into equal size portion. 5 Dust the rolling area & Roll the divided dough into circle. 6 Brush the circle with drops of oil & sprinkle some flour over it. 7 Cut the circle as strips & arrange the stripe one by one over themselves. 8 Press the strips & Roll it again as shown in above picture (twist). 9 Rest it for another 30 minuts. 10 Gently roll with rolling pin in to round shape. 11 Cook the paratha on both the side. Drizzle oil around the paratha & cook well. 12 Take 2 ~ 3 parathas between your palms & gently clap to release the layer. 13 Serve hot with any gravy.

About


Lacha Paratha or Lacheder Paratha is a popular whole wheat, Layered  paratha from North India( Punjab). We can do this paratha in different ways like pleating the dough or by doing triangle shape dough & press in between and can also be done as I given below.  In South India, same layered parota is made up of  All purpose flour which is known as Malabar parota in different style ( you may check my malabar parota post). Here I used all purpose flour instead of whole wheat flour.