Roti Canai Food

ROTI CANAI/PARATHA (INDIAN PANCAKE)

Steps:

• Mix warm water, salt, and sugar together in a bowl. Put flour in a large mixing bowl; work in 3 1/2 tablespoons ghee using your fingertips.
• Beat egg and 1 teaspoon water together in a bowl; add to flour mixture. Gradually mix warm water mixture into flour mixture while kneading until dough becomes soft and pliable. Form dough into balls and let rest in a well-oiled bowl, 2 to 3 hours.
• Working on a flat greased surface, take a dough ball and flatten it using the heel of your palm to make a paper-thin circle. Spread 1 teaspoon ghee inside it. Fold the edges together to make roti into a square. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Heat about 1 tablespoon ghee on griddle or in a skillet over medium heat; cook roti until browned, 1 to 3 minutes per side.

ROTI CANAI

Steps:

• Combine flour, salt, sugar and 1/4 cup of the ghee in the bowl of a stand mixer. Run on low speed with a dough hook until mixture clumps.
• Add egg, milk and water. Continue to mix until a smooth elastic dough is formed. Knead into a smooth, soft, elastic dough, about 8 to 10 minutes. The dough should be a bit sticky, but not wet.
• Transfer the dough out and cut into eight equal pieces, about 4 oz. each (113 g). Form into smooth balls.
• Coat each ball with one teaspoon of ghee, slathering them well. Arrange in a single layer on a plate, cover with a damn cloth and allow them to rest at room temperature for at least 6 hours. (The dough can be made a day ahead and kept in the refrigerator.)
• If the dough was prepared the day ahead, let come to a warm room temperature. So if your kitchen is cold, place the dough inwarm area, or you can even microwave it for 10 secondintervals. Warm dough is more elastic and easier to workwith.
• Clean a 2-inch × 2-inch surface, and coat it with a 12-inch circle (30 cm) of ghee (about 2 tablespoons). Coat hands liberally with ghee.
• Stretch the dough into a sheet; put 1 teaspoon of ghee in center of the buttered work area.
• Arrange one dough ball in the center. Press with your buttered palm to flatten dough into a 6-inch disc, less than 1/4 inch thick, slightly thinner around edges.
• Pull and stretch it from the center outwards. Make sure most of dough is paper thin by moving around dough perimeter with your fingertips and thumbs, lifting thicker edges, pulling outwards to thin, and gently pressing against table to adhere.
• Systematically, slowly, work your way around theperimeter of dough circle, pulling outwards to thin thedough. For the first few rounds, pull 3 to 4 inches (about8 to 10 cm) each time, making it thinner and thinner. As itgets thinner, it will be obvious where the thicker parts ofthe dough are. Focus on those areas. Keep going until youachieve a paper thin sheet. It should reach about 2 feet in diameter. Use the tips of your fingers to smooth the thicker part paper thin.
• Using two hands, fold top quarter of dough over itself, almost reaching middle of sheet. Fold top edge over again to meet the top edge. Then repeat with other sides to create a square multi-layered square of dough about 6 to 8 inches (about 16 to 20 cm). Each time you fold, try to capture some air in-between layers.
• Heat a griddle or large saute pan over low heat.
• Firmly flatten and spread one disc of dough until it is 7 inches to 8 inches in diameter or (18 to 20 cm). The dough will be elastic, and may pull back a little.
• Drizzle the griddle with a little ghee. Add one bread to the pan, and cook slowly, turning once, 3 to 4 minutes per side, rotating occasionally to ensure even browning. Cook until each side is deep golden brown.
• Transfer the breads to a work surface, and then use a clapping motion (careful it will be hot), slapping the bread together between your hands to separate the layers.
• Repeat with remaining roti, cooking as many as will fit in the pan at one time. Serve immediately with curry sauce or sugar.

ROTI CANAI

Steps:

• Mix salt with flour and sieve into a bowl
• Add sugar if necessary
• Add water and knead into dough no longer sticks to hand
• Knead till it feels 'elastic'
• Divide into 8 portion, return to bowl, brush it with ghee and cover with damp cloth leaving for 1/2 hour
• Take 1 portion, spread a little ghee on top and flatten with hands
• Pick up flattened dough by the edges and swirl in circular motion until dough thins out
• Fold dough to form a square and flatten out again
• Repeat process to trap air in layers of dough
• Flatten once again and fry on heated flat pan or iron griddle till cooked
• Remove and serve hot with dhal or any curry of your choice (see also Chicken Curry, Mutton Kurma, Beef Rendang).

ROTI CANAI (AUTHENTIC MALAYSIAN RECIPE)

Steps:

• Mix the salt in the water.
• Put the flour in a mixing bowl. Add the salted water gradually.
• Mix the flour into a dough. kneed until smooth. Make sure the texture of the dough is not too sticky and gooey.
• Oil your hands with cooking oil and then make the dough into palm sized balls.
• In a bowl pour some oil so that the dough doesn't stick to the bowl. Put in the balls, coating it with oil as you put one on top of each other. After it is all in a bowl, totally immerse it in oil. Leave over night.
• Oil your kneading space. Take out one dough ball, flatten it out into with you palms until the size of a dinner plate.
• Flip it like a pizza (I put a link below to show you how to flip it).
• Flip the dough a couple of times and spread it out until paper thin.
• Take the one edge and fold it to the middle. Do this another three times so that it will turn into a square.
• Grease a flat pan or skillet with cooking oil and cook until golden brown.
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EucCu1zafk&feature=related.