A Kerala parotta looks like one flatbread, but oil or ghee is folded into every layer, so one parotta carries about 320 calories - close to three wheat rotis. Eat two plain rotis instead and you keep your South Indian meal while dropping calories and a lot of fat.
12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Kerala parotta is the flaky, layered flatbread you tear into at a Chettinadu mess or a roadside thattu kada. Those flaky layers do not come from the flour. They come from oil or ghee folded and rolled into the dough again and again. That is the real reason a parotta is heavier than it looks.
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