Malabar paratha

Dishoom p. ███

An oily, flaky bread from Kerala, paratha accompanies any south Indian-style dish very nicely. In parts of south India and Sri Lanka, past-their-best parathas are often chopped up and fried on a hotplate with vegetables and eggs to make a filling dish known as kotthu. Paratha goes particularly well with butter garlic crab (page 198), soft-shell crab masala (page 202) and mutton pepper fry (page 206).