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Malabar Paratha Recipe / Kerala Parotta Recipe / How to Make Malabar Parotta

March 8, 2011 By Aarthi 80 Comments

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Paratha is usually called as parota over here.Here in Nagercoil there are so many parota shop,They usually serve parota  with a lovely salna,it will be so nice to have  on a rainy day.The Parata they make is entirely different there are so many methods in doing that,they will just throw the dough in air to make it thin but it doesn’t work for me.But this recipe is so simple and the parota even turns out so flaky and so soft.So every one can try it.

I served it with Vegetable Korma(For recipe Check this Link ) but you could serve it with Chicken gravy  or Salna .I had even given Step by step instructions so it will be so helpful to you.

So Just make it over this weekend and please let me know how it turned out.



Preparation Time : 30 mins
Resting Time : 4 Hours
Cooking Time : 45 sec to 1 min per paratha
Serves : 4 to 5


Ingredients:



For Dough:
All Purpose Flour / Maida – ½ kg / 500 grams
Warm milk-300 ml
Oil – 2 tblspn + more for frying paratha
Sugar-1 tblspn
Salt to taste


For Making Paste:
Oil – 1/2 cup
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1/2 cup
Method:
Mix every ingredients in a mixing Bowl and form a dough,cover it with a damp cloth and let it rest for about 4 hours.
In a bowl add around ½ cup of maida and pour in some oil and make it into a smooth paste and set aside.
Divide the Dough in to equal portions.
Take a dough ball and spread it into a thin chappati,Add in a tblspn of maida oil over the chappati and spread it evenly.Now with a sharp knife cut strips on the chappati,pull all the strips together and curl it into a round,Apply some oil on the dough ball and set aside on a oiled plate(See picture).Make every dough ball the same way.After that cover the plate with some damp cloth and set it aside for about 1 hour.
After 1 hour take the dough and make it to a slightly thicker Parata.
Heat a tawa on high heat and place the parata over the pan and cook the parata on both sides by applying oil till it is golden brown.
Make some 5 parata the same way,then stack them together and crush them with your both hands vigorously till the flakes separates.
Put them in a Hot case and repeat the process until everything is done.
Serve them hot with your favorite curry.


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Pictorial:
Ur ingredients
Make dough by mixing flour, salt, sugar, milk and oil.
cover it with a damp cloth and let it rest
Take flour and oil in a bowl
make it into a paste
now take the rested dough out
divide into equal balls
Take one ball and spread it thinly
spread the flour oil in this
spread it evely
cut into thin strips
take it together…
start rolling
roll…
Perfectly rolled
apply some oil over this
all done…
cover it with a damp cloth and let it rest
take one out
spread into thick roti
put it in a hot tawa
cook on both sides
take it out
start crushing
crush
all flaky
All Done

Serve 

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Filed Under: Bread, Chapatis, Kerala, Paratha, Recent Recipes, Stuffed Paratha, Tiffin

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Karen Xavier

    March 9, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    I love this, the whole presentation… will try it out pretty soon. I've never found a good paratha recipe before, this looks easy and really flaky.

    Reply
    • Lavanya

      April 21, 2020 at 4:42 pm

      It really turned out good, for any recipe I can rely on your site 😊

      Reply
  2. Anonymous

    March 23, 2011 at 10:13 am

    Is there a way to make these parathas without milk, using curd or water or butter instead?

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      November 19, 2016 at 6:54 pm

      Use luke warm water

      Reply
  3. Aarthi

    March 23, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    Yes…You could use Curd+Water and knead the dough and follow the same procedure…Give the dough a resting time of 1-2 hours.It will probably give you the same result.I haven't tried this…Hope you try and tell me how it turned out…

    Reply
  4. Viswini

    March 30, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Hi Aarthi.. tried this.. Came out soooo good.. Thanks for the recipe..

    Reply
  5. nivedita

    June 3, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    wow, bookmarking it to make it soon.
    detailed photos makes easy to follow the recipe.
    thanks.

    Reply
  6. sangee vijay

    June 13, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    wow…very detailed recipe…looks so fluffy n layered…want to give a try soon…thanx for sharing…

    Reply
  7. Bindhu

    June 16, 2011 at 9:33 am

    Tried this one and my folks just loved it.Btw..nice blog,keep going.

    Reply
  8. soujanya

    September 20, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Vowww!!!real flaky…very detailed presentation…..thanq…
    i tried twice but i failed so stopped will try again..
    thanq…

    Reply
  9. Chitra

    October 15, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    Aarthi love this paratha love the technique used here…lovely…will try this soon and post it linking it back to u…let me know if it's ok with u…

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    November 25, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    hi to all yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.comers this is my first post and thought i would say a big hello to yous –
    regards speak again soon
    g moore

    Reply
  11. Hemavathi Murari

    March 12, 2012 at 4:13 am

    Superb parothas. but it takes time.

    Hema's Adugemane

    Reply
  12. Preethi Sriram

    March 30, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    yummy dish dear… sure will give a try 🙂
    http://preethisculinary.blogspot.com

    Reply
  13. Anonymous

    July 30, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    @Karen Xavier
    I am definaletly going to try it. But i will us whole wheat flour. hope it will be as flaky as Maida .
    Vanita.

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      November 10, 2012 at 11:33 pm

      How did u get this paratha by doing it with whole wheat?

      Reply
  14. Anonymous

    September 20, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    hey dear ur blog is wonderful and you have explained each recipe very well..thanks a lot dear…God Bless!!

    Reply
  15. Anonymous

    September 20, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    hey dear ur blog is wonderful and you have explained each recipe very well..thanks a lot dear…God Bless!!

    Reply
  16. nisha

    October 4, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    Hi dear
    I just tried this recipe. It came really well. Thank you so much. My husband really likes. It

    Reply
  17. Rayyan

    April 27, 2013 at 5:16 am

    hey dear u really doing a great job!! especially the detail photographs makes r life easy in the kitchen…thanks a ton!!

    Reply
  18. Rayyan

    April 27, 2013 at 5:18 am

    hey dear u doing a really great job!! especially the detail photographs step by step..u make r life easy in the kitchen..thanks a ton!!!

    Reply
  19. Vanita A

    July 16, 2013 at 5:40 am

    Good morning Aarthi. As I said the photographs makes things much easier. thks for the Post. Will try this out.

    Reply
  20. Suchi Sm

    October 5, 2013 at 5:47 am

    fantastic work aarthi….. u make all the tough recipes to feel easy……

    Reply
  21. remya sean

    July 11, 2014 at 11:38 am

    I trieed to make soft kerala parotta several times.But all the times it end up with a disaster..

    Sure I will try ur version soon..n let u know the result

    Reply
  22. Anonymous

    July 13, 2014 at 11:25 am

    I tried this with wheat flour n came out nice…thankyou Aarthi…👍👏

    Reply
  23. Anonymous

    August 18, 2014 at 10:49 am

    Very nice recipe.. Thanks for sharing.. Will try it out soon..

    Reply
  24. Anonymous

    September 1, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Gr8….u r amazing…..

    Reply
  25. Anonymous

    September 1, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    Looks yummy will surely try it very soon by the way tried the suji lados and they were a hit thanks alot

    Reply
  26. Anonymous

    September 3, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    I tried this…..lushhhhh result yummyy.u r suprrb

    Reply
  27. deepak Raj

    September 14, 2014 at 11:46 am

    I did this parota and kurma, it came out very well..
    Thanks..

    Reply
  28. Deepthi Rain

    October 1, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Hi Aarti, ur recipe is awesome.. I tried it at home. It came out amazing. I have clicked the snaps also.. But couldn't upload to show u

    Reply
  29. Hemapriya Natesan

    October 6, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Hai, Is there anyway to.Store the dough to do it later, I have 2 small kids, and it is difficult to do the procedure evrrytime

    Reply
  30. Aarthi

    October 7, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    @Hemapriya NatesanYou can store this in a air tight container in fridge and use it whenever you need. It will keep well for 2 to 3 days

    Reply
  31. Praveena Dewars

    October 24, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    This recipe looks great, but I'm a beginner so of course it did not turn out as well as yours. I could use some tips, i replaced maida with all purpose flour and the dough came out very elastic, so it was hard to roll out. I managed with a great deal of effort to roll it out paper thin and everything looked fine till I tried rolling the balls into parathas. They were very Rubbery and wouldn't hold shape so they wound up thick, hard and uncooked inside. Just wondering if this is because I used all purpose flour instead of maida or if there could be another reason?

    Reply
  32. Aarthi

    October 25, 2014 at 5:09 am

    @Praveena DewarsI think it is because you have kneaded to dough really hard i hope. You have to make it soft and smooth and allow it to rest for 4 hours. if you do this, you will get a soft paratha

    Reply
  33. Deepu

    December 14, 2014 at 4:33 am

    haiiii arthi……

    first of all congrats for ur recipes….. all the recipes was amazing.. yesterday i tried one of ur recipe … ya that is parotaa….. i correctly follow all your steps…. finally the out put whahooooooooo !!!!!!!!! it was fantastically came out,….. ssssss i done the parotaa…..

    the taste was yummyyyyy and it luks lik i was eat in hotel….

    Reply
  34. Anonymous

    December 22, 2014 at 5:08 am

    Hai Aarthi. unka paratto
    making parthawey seinum pola iruku.
    I will try. Ur baby is so sweet.
    I like name Maha. so cute.
    -bhuvaneswari,salem.

    Reply
  35. Me

    December 27, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    Hey Aarthi, I tried dis recipe today n parantha came out super flaky n soft..my mom dad wr amazed by my cooking..I had dis parantha for d 1st tym wen I ws in dubai..wondering of its recipe bt thnks to u I found wat I wanted..

    Reply
  36. Thahira Tasneem

    February 19, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    I am an ardent follower of your blog.Thank you, for posting such wonderful and easy to follow recipes.My family enjoys every dish i make from your blog.

    Reply
  37. Anonymous

    March 27, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    U make all tough recipes sound so easy…..ur pictorial illustration makes it very tempting to try…..u r too cool….keep it up….and enlighten us with more of such recipes.
    God Bless you

    Preethi

    Reply
  38. Archana Kathirvel

    April 11, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Hi aathi….
    Am Recent follower of ur blog…every girl who s new to cooking can be presented with ur blog ….so that all will become masters in cooking…..hats off to u….keep up the good work….

    Reply
  39. Anonymous

    April 11, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    wowwwww…mouth watering i love the way you prepared n clicked pics to help others to cook without confusion suppeerrrbbbb thanq

    Reply
  40. Anonymous

    April 30, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    Thank you sister for all ur recipes nowadays am getting rewards by my family members bcs of u and I get confident in my cooking very thank u

    Reply
  41. Anonymous

    May 13, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  42. Prem

    May 14, 2015 at 1:32 am

    Hi Aarthi.. I started following ur blog few days back. IT IS AMAZING . I m gonna start experimenting parota as first step.. Thank you for all thr recipes.

    Prem.

    Reply
  43. Anonymous

    May 16, 2015 at 6:23 am

    Hi. I tried it. It came out very well. Thanks for the receipe.

    Reply
  44. Anonymous

    June 4, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    U r great..

    Reply
  45. jeevitha balakrishnan

    June 10, 2015 at 7:14 am

    Hi friend this is the first time I m seeing ur recepi I think it wil use ful for me. Very nice and easily u have explained with very good pics. I wil do it and let u know how it comes.

    Reply
  46. jeevitha balakrishnan

    June 10, 2015 at 7:16 am

    Very nice I wil prepare and tel u how it comes I hope it wil com good

    Reply
  47. Anonymous

    July 14, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    Arthi,
    Should I leave the dough in refrigerator or out for 4 hr, n same question after making the balls should I put in in fridge for 1 hour or just at room temperature. I appreciate ur help.

    Reply
  48. Aarthi

    July 17, 2015 at 7:50 am

    @Anonymousno need to put in fridge, store it out at room temp

    Reply
  49. Anonymous

    August 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    I am a begginer..I followed many of your recipes and everything came out so well and tasty…thanks for it…

    Reply
  50. Anonymous

    August 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Looks yummy porota … Never eating good porota other than south Tamil nadu.. I tried once with egg similar to your recipe but couldn't get this flakes.. So avoiding egg is better right aarthi??

    Reply
  51. Aarthi

    August 14, 2015 at 4:16 am

    @Anonymousyes this recipe works wonderful

    Reply
  52. Anonymous

    September 26, 2015 at 8:47 am

    Your blog is too helpful,nd thanks for your blog,i am having one doubt.after making the dough the resting time is 2 hours and after making the stripes nd ball, again 2 hours,orelse 4 and then again 4 hours???

    Reply
  53. Manivasagan S

    September 26, 2015 at 8:53 am

    Hi aarthi,the dough can make thin rotis by oil or atta?when we try to make thin parathha ,it will shruk again and again na? Bcoz its maida na,if we can make thin means how to do??plz help me to do this.

    Reply
  54. Aarthi

    September 28, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    @Anonymousmake the dough and rest it for 4 hours. roll it and cut it and make it into the ball and rest it for 1 hour. then make paratha

    Reply
  55. Aarthi

    September 28, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    @Manivasagan Sthe paratha will be little thick not too thin..

    Reply
  56. Anonymous

    October 9, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    @Praveena Dewars You can also check the oil content. Parota takes up lot of oil. Maida and all-purpose flour doesn't make any difference.

    Reply
  57. Anonymous

    January 11, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    Thanks so much for the recipe.

    For the vegan folk out there, you can sub the milk for soy milk (or any other plant based milk, really). It's better for the animals and better for you too! Give it a try.

    I just made mine and they turned out awesome!

    Reply
  58. Jincy Firoz

    January 13, 2016 at 7:45 am

    How many cups s halfkg maida ??

    Reply
  59. Jincy Firoz

    January 13, 2016 at 7:45 am

    How many cups s halfkg maida ??

    Reply
  60. Jincy Firoz

    January 13, 2016 at 7:46 am

    How many cup s half kg maida??

    Reply
  61. Aarthi

    January 15, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    @Jincy Firozhalf kg is around 4 cups

    Reply
  62. momsrecipes

    March 23, 2016 at 2:59 am

    Bookmarking the recipe…. Will make it vegan … Thank you for sharing the detailed recipe….

    Reply
  63. Anonymous

    April 9, 2016 at 10:43 am

    tried this and got soo many compliments… thanks for the recipe��

    Reply
  64. Nimmi Maanu

    June 1, 2016 at 5:54 am

    I really loves your way of presentation in this blog and i likes malabar parota very much.but my mom dont know how to make it.I think this blog will very helpful for my mom.Thank you so much for this wonderful blog…The best parota maida will help to make best parota.

    Reply
  65. husaindeen himazy

    June 10, 2016 at 9:22 am

    Hi arthi, is it fresh milk or coconut milk that we should add..?? btw i m from sri lanka. i started cooking 3 months ago.. i really dont have any experience in cooking. your recipes are really really great and its very easy. i tried out the oats uthappam, fried chicken and the microwave chocolate lava cake.. thankyou so much for ypur easy recipes and keep on uploading more..

    Reply
    • Aarthi

      June 11, 2016 at 4:37 am

      It is fresh milk

      Reply
  66. Anonymous

    July 10, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Hi aarthi,all ur recipies are really good.can we use wheat flour instead of maida

    Reply
  67. Anonymous

    July 24, 2016 at 10:08 am

    Can we make it with wheat flour??

    Reply
  68. Hemalatha Lingamoorthy

    July 30, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Hi Aarthi… How much milk( in cup measurement) for one cup maida?

    Reply
  69. Jayanthi Ramaraj

    September 10, 2016 at 7:12 am

    Thanks for the nice pictorial info..
    All ur recipes are easy to follow thro pictorial

    Reply
  70. Anonymous

    October 14, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    Great recipe. This was the first time Intried it and it turned out great. Only thing Inwould change next time is to reduce the sugar to 1/2 or even 1/4 tbsp of sugar. Thanks for the recipe😊.

    Reply
  71. Sruthi

    November 17, 2016 at 11:45 am

    Hi arthi.. tat was a perfect recipie. I tried an got the best ever parotta 😊😊.Thanks a lot an keep the grt work going… Best wishes..😊😊

    Reply
  72. RANJINI PRASAD

    January 9, 2017 at 9:34 am

    Hi Aarathi its my dream paratha my mouth is watering definitely I vl try it
    Thanks

    Reply
  73. Valarmathi

    January 13, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Superb such an easy paratha recipe ever seen…i tried and my whole family loved it…thank u so much…

    Reply
  74. Anonymous

    May 4, 2017 at 12:53 am

    Wonderful recipes…I always google yummy tummy for any recipe…. Thanks Aarthi!

    Reply
  75. NEW BUSINESS IDEAS KERALA

    May 6, 2019 at 1:19 am

    YOU DID A GREAT JOB INDEED. IT IS QUITE INFORMATIVE AND THE PICTURES GIVE US A GOOD LOOK, HOW OUR PARATHA WILL SHAPE UP. IF YOU WANT TO DO IT AS A HOME BASED BUSINESS, JUST READ THIS. START HOME BASED PARATHA MAKING

    Reply
  76. Best Business Blog

    July 30, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    awsome recipe

    Reply

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