Pakistani

Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha)

Name: Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 3 cups atta (whole wheat flour); 1 tsp salt; 1.25 cups water; 1/3 cup ghee

Shaheen Akhtar @shaheen_apa

Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 cups atta (whole wheat flour)
1 tsp salt
1.25 cups water
1/3 cup ghee

How to cook it

Make a soft dough with the atta, salt and water, knead it 8 minutes until smooth, and rest it 20 minutes under a cloth.
Roll a ball out into a thin round, brush it all over with ghee, and dust it lightly with dry atta.
Fold the round into a fan of narrow pleats like a paper concertina, then coil the strip into a spiral and press it flat.
Rest the coil 5 minutes, then roll it out again gently into a round about the thickness of a coin. The layers inside are what make it flaky.
Cook on a hot tawa for 1 minute, turn, brush the top with ghee, and turn again, pressing the edges with a cloth until both sides are golden and blistered.
Serve hot with anda, achar or plain yogurt, and a cup of chai.

Watch how to cook Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Pakistani breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The sharp little thing
- Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Gluten	Yes	Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 380 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 45 g
Fat: 19 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 380 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Sada Paratha (Plain Layered Paratha) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.