This recipe was given to me by my brother who obtained it from a 90 year old Indian woman, the grand-mother of a friend.
3 cups of plain flour
1 teaspoon of salt
1 dessertspoon of sugar
The yolk of one egg
Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the salt, sugar, yolk and enough water to make an elastic dough. Kneed well. Make into eight balls. Grease each ball with ghee (or melted butter) until soft and elastic. Roll out each ball, sprinkle with a little flour and spread with ghee. Cut one side of the circle (the radius) and roll into a conical shape. Stand on it’s fat base and push the dough down into the middle. Roll out this ball into an approximately 4 inch disc and fry a in pan which has been wiped with melted butter until brown.
