Poricha parotta/ Virudhunagar parotta is a super flaky, crispy, lightly sweet and delicious deep fried parotta often served with salna both veg/ chicken.
This deep fried/ ennai parotta/ poricha parotta is super popular in Virudhunagar/ Thoothukudi and much craved by all for its taste and texture. Not an everyday delicacy but still can be consumed once in a blue moon and can be easily made at home as the recipe and making turns out to be super easy one.
As mentioned earlier you could serve this parotta with dishes like:
So sorry to be spamming with lot of pictures as I wanted to show its texture in different ways. So let’s get to the making of Poricha parotta/ Ennai parotta!
- 1. Maida- 2 cups
- 2. Oil- 2 tbsp
- 3. Salt – ½ tsp
- 4. Sugar – ½ tsp (optional)
- 5. Water – 1 cup (approx.)
- 6. Oil – enough for frying
- * 1 cup = 235 ml
- In a bowl add maida, salt, sugar and oil. Mix everything well. Knead it into a soft dough by adding water gradually . Keep the dough aside for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes divide the dough into equal sized golf balls. Now take one dough ball and flatten it thin, (if it tears in between its okay as we will roll it) with the rolling pin.
- Now apply ghee/ oil to the rolled dough. Now start pleating it as shown in the picture.
- Heat oil on a frying pan and take 1 swirl ball of dough and flatten it gently in a way the layers don’t disappear. Keep it aside.
- When the oil is hot (not smoking hot) slide each rolled layered dough in oil and fry it turns crisp in medium heat. When the parotta turns crisp and light golden color remove it from oil and repeat the process till all the dough is over. Relish it hot with Potato chicken kurma/ Veg kurma.
How to make Virudhunagar poricha parotta with step by step images
- In a bowl add maida, salt, sugar and oil. Mix everything well. Knead it into a soft dough by adding water gradually . Keep the dough aside for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes divide the dough into equal sized golf balls. Now take one dough ball and flatten it thin, (if it tears in between its okay as we will roll it) with the rolling pin.
- Now apply ghee/ oil to the rolled dough.
- Now start pleating it as shown in the picture.
- Heat oil on a frying pan and take 1 swirl ball of dough and flatten it gently in a way the layers don’t disappear. Keep it aside.
- When the oil is hot (not smoking hot) slide each rolled layered dough in oil and fry it turns crisp in medium heat. When the parotta turns crisp and light golden color remove it from oil and repeat the process till all the dough is over. Relish it hot with Potato chicken kurma/ Veg kurma.