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Wheat Flqur Parratas

A wheat flour flatbread rolled, folded, and baked or fried with ghee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and ghee work together. They rank in the top 35% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. The science ↓

Wheat Flqur Parratas

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix the flour with salt and enough water to form a stiff dough.

  2. Knead the dough well until it is soft.

Shape and cook

  1. Take a ball the size of a goose egg and roll it out on a board.

  2. Spread ghee all over the rolled dough with a knife.

  3. Fold the dough twice, then roll it out into a square.

  4. Bake or fry in ghee as desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + gheetop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together539 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the dough structure that holds the flatbread together when rolled and cooked.
Ghee or butter
Adds fat that makes the layers separate and gives the flatbread a rich flavour and browning.

The step that matters

Spreading the ghee over the rolled dough. Fat spread between folded layers keeps them from fusing, so the flatbread becomes flaky when cooked. Spreading it unevenly leaves dry, dense or greasy patches.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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