Misri ka paratha

Best for breakfast when one has a cough.

Ingredients:

• 1 ? cup wheat flour;
• ? cup crystal sugar (misri);
• 8-10 peppercorns;
• 1 tspn jeera;
• 6-8 tspns oil;
• salt to taste

Method:

• Keeping aside ? cup of wheat flour, prepare firm but soft dough with remaining flour, water and salt. Smoothen it with 1 or 2 teaspoons of oil. Keep covered for at least ? an hour.
• Crush crystal sugar into tiny pieces.
• Coarsely grind or pound jeera and pepper corns and mix it with the crushed crystal sugar.
• Divide the dough into two balls. Roll out each into thick, round shape ? the size of a regular roti. Dab a little oil all over it.
• Place half the quantity of spiced crushed crystal sugar in the centre of one half of the roti. Fold the other half over the stuffing.
• Seal the edges by folding and pressing the lower edge over the upper edge with the index finger ? close together. A semi-circle shaped roti is formed.

Cook on a hot tawa on medium flame, with little oil. Serve hot.