Funny, I never even thought about this, because when I say bread I mean yeasted bread, even though the unleavened flatbreads I grew up with are also included under the term bread in English.
If we’re including flatbreads, my favorite is a fresh, homemade chapati with a touch of ghee. It’s hard to describe the pleasure of eating these cooked and served one at a time, hot off the flame from being puffed and onto your thali. Perhaps why the flour tortilla at Corima has garnered such a fan following.
All Indian kids I know have hovered by the stove aspiring to a hot ghee-coated chapati to eat plain while the rest of the meal was being put on the table. And eaten another one (or few) at the end plain after they were “full”
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After chapatis, a stuffed paratha – preferably stuffed by someone else
(and also preferably stuffed with kheema / spiced ground goat).
