🇲🇾 How to Make Roti Canai

Craving Roti Canai? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Roti Canai at home, in about 40 min + 4 hr resting, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 300g plain flour
• 1 tbsp condensed milk
• 1 egg
• 150ml warm water
• 1 tsp salt
• plenty of ghee or margarine, plus more for frying
• dhal or fish curry to dip

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Mix everything into a soft, slightly sticky dough and knead 10 min until smooth.
2. Divide into 6 balls, coat each one generously in oil, and rest them covered at least 4 hours. Overnight is better. The rest is the whole recipe — an unrested dough will tear every single time you try to stretch it.
3. On a well-oiled surface, press a ball flat and then stretch and slap it outwards until it is thin enough to read through. Holes are survivable; thick is not.
4. Fold the edges into the centre to make a rough square, keeping the layers loose rather than pressing them together.
5. Fry in ghee over medium heat, 2 min a side, until deep gold and crisp in patches.
6. Straight off the pan, clap it between your palms a few times to shatter the layers apart. Serve with dhal, and eat it with your hands.