How To Make Roasted Paan (Sri-Lankan Bread)
This roasted paan recipe makes a Sri Lankan staple accessible. All you need are six ingredients to recreate this South Asian bread.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Roasted Paan:
- 2lbflour
- 1tbspyeast
- ¼cupbutter
- 1tbspsalt
- ¼cupsugar
- 4tbspwater,lukewarm, to mix the yeast
- 2cupswater,lukewarm, for the dough
For Oil Mixture:
- ¼cupflour
- ½cupbutter
- 1tbspolive oil
Instructions
Oil Mixture:
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In a small bowl, mix together flour, butter and olive oil. Set aside.
Roasted Paan:
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Mix yeast and sugar with 4 tablespoons of water and let it bloom for 10 to 15 minutes.
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Mix together flour, butter, salt, water, and the yeast mixture into a dough. Knead well.
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Rest the dough for 1 hour in a slightly warm, dry place. Cover with a wet towel.
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Once the dough has doubled in size, knead again. Then, separate the dough into 200-gram balls and let them rest for 15 minutes in a flat oven pan.
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Knead the 200-gram balls into squares with a slight dome on the top.
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Now, apply the oil mixture on the top of the dough balls.
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Place all the shaped dough balls in a 7-inch baking tray.
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Once preheated, bake bread for 20 to 25 minutes.
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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.
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Place the tray back in the oven until the tops turn golden brown. This will take about 15 minutes.
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Serce with a curry or coconut sambal paste.
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Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 623.55kcal
- Fat: 20.21g
- Saturated Fat: 11.36g
- Trans Fat: 0.70g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.87g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.31g
- Carbohydrates: 96.39g
- Fiber: 3.57g
- Sugar: 6.57g
- Protein: 12.91g
- Cholesterol: 45.75mg
- Sodium: 499.20mg
- Calcium: 25.54mg
- Potassium: 145.19mg
- Iron: 1.43mg
- Vitamin A: 145.56µg
- Vitamin C: 0.00mg
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