Roasted Paan (Sri-Lankan Bread)
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This recipe was submitted by a Tasty Community Member, and hasn’t been tested by the Tasty recipe team.Submit your own recipe here!
Ingredients
for 8 servings
- 2 lb flour (950 g)
- 1 tablespoon yeast (14 g)
- ¼ cup butter (30 g)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- ¼ cup sugar (30 g)
- 4 tablespoons lukewarm water, to mix the yeast
- 2 cups lukewarm water (400 mL), for the dough
For oil trick:
- ¼ cup flour (30 g)
- ½ cup butter (80 g)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Preparation
- Mix yeast and sugar with 4 tbsp water and let it bloom for 10-15 minutes.
- Mix together flour, butter, salt, water, and the yeast mixture into a dough. Knead well.
- Rest the dough for 1 hour in a slightly warm, dry place. Cover with a wet towel.
- Once the dough has doubled in size, knead again. Then, separate the dough into 200g balls and let them rest for 15 minutes in a flat oven pan.
- Knead the 200g balls into squares with a slight dome on the top. Now, apply the ‘oil trick mixture’ on the top of the dough balls.
- Place all the shaped dough balls in a 7” baking tray.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Once preheated, bake bread for 20-25 minutes.
- After 25 minutes, take the bread tray out of the oven and separate the bread pieces while hot. Lay them on a flat oven tray.
- Place the tray back in the oven until the tops turn golden brown, roughly 15 minutes.
- Serce with a curry or coconut sambal paste.
- Enjoy!
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