Malabar Paratha

An oily, flaky bread from Kerala, paratha accompanies any south Indian-style dish very nicely. In parts of south India and Sri Lank a, 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, soft-shell crab masala and mutton pepper fry.