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Jalebi Paratha

cooked in a pan and spiced with fennel seeds and ajwain for a South Asian bread. It's finished with flour, separate by butter or brown paper.

20 min · Serves 4 · Easy

Serves
4

Ingredients

Time
Cook 20 min · 20 min total
Difficulty
easy
  1. 1

    Sieve flour with salt into a flat dish. Pour the milk and some water and knead to a smooth dough.

  2. 2

    Cover with cloth and set aside for 1 hour. Knock back the dough, add the vanaspati, ajwain and crushed fennel seeds and knead well till the dough is soft.

    60 min
  3. 3

    Make 12-15 balls and keep aside covered with a wet cloth for 1 hour. Roll out into a disc about 5 inches in diameter, layer with oil and dust with some flour.

    60 min
  4. 4

    Cut a radius and keeping the centre as pivot, roll into a cone. Cut the top of the cone and insert at the back.

  5. 5

    Flatten the dough with your palm to make a pedha. Repeat for all the others, dust with flour, separate by butter or brown paper and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

    20 min
  6. 6

    Shallow fry fry on a tawa till golden brown and serve hot.

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