Hi, Ray here again.
I was browsing the Curry Focus recipes when I saw the paratha recipe. Being a big fan of this tasty type of bread, and having a delicious supply from my local Indian store, I decided to see if I could make them myself.
There are only 6 ingredients in the recipe but the method of preparation is quite lengthy with nearly a whole page of cooking detail.
I already had all of the ingredients so paratha was the next cooking experiment.
I quickly sieved and mixed the flours and made the dough. Then I rubbed the outside of the dough ball with some oil and put it into a plastic bag for 30 minutes.
The hard work really began now. It took me 40 minutes to roll and prepare the paratha. And then it took me 45 minutes to cook them. I sampled two of them whilst I was cooking and wasn’t impressed. I wrapped up six of them in some foil and put them aside for heating up later and put the remaining 4 into a plastic, separated by wax paper, and put them into the freezer for a future meal.
That evening I prepared a stunning dhal (which is the subject of a previous recipe review) and then heated up the paratha to have with the dhal.
The small dinner party of 3 thoroughly enjoyed the dhal but the paratha were a different store. The paratha were dry and tasteless.
The paratha only rating a tiny 4 out of 10 and that didn’t really seem a good return on the time it took to make them.
I don’t think that I’ll be making paratha again so the local Indian store can look forward to my regular visits for some time into the future.
