Authentic Sindhi Recipe - Mitho Lolo

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Sharing step by step recipe of Sweet Flat Bread - Mitho Lolo - authentic Sindhi recipe - a griddle roasted sweet flat bread - made from a dough of wheat flour, sugar and ghee, which is flavored with crushed green cardamom.

Mitho Lolo is an authentic Sindhi sweet flat bread. This flat bread is mainly prepared on two main occasions. Firstly, on the occasion of Shitala Satam Vrat (Thadri in Sindhi). Second for the fastest recovery and good health of children and others and to escape from measles and smallpox. 

Goddess Shitla is the goddess of pox and measles. Shitala Satam Vrat is observed in the month of Shravan on the seventh day of the dark fortnight. On this day, cold meal is consumed during the day and the menu for this non cooking day consisted of those recipes which doesn't get spoiled for longer period..

The USP of this sweet flatbread is that it has good shelf life. This recipe is also good to test your patience and cooking skills as all the flat breads are roasted on slow flame and it takes about 35-40 minutes to roast 5-6 flat breads :). 

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 Recipe details 

Prep time - 15 min

Cook time - 35-40 min

Cuisine - Indian (Sindhi)

Recipe difficulty level -  medium/ Difficult 

No. Of flatbread 5-6

 Ingredients required 

650-750 grams Wheat flour (mainly fine wheatflour)

230-250 grams sugar 
1 cup water or required  or just sugar gets  soaked in water approximately  100-120 ml 

150 - 170 grams ghee for dough kneading

8-9 cardamom, crushed  or 2tsp cardamom powder 

Additional ghee (will be required after roasting )

Method 
Step 1 Dissolve sugar

Mix sugar in one cup normal tap water. Go on mixing until fully dissolved. . Use powdered sugar or dissolve it on slow flame, but allow it to cool down.

Note: using hot sugar syrup will make your mitho lolo very hard.. Please don't use hot sugar syrup for dough kneading..  allow it to come to room  temperature..

Step 2 : Dough Kneading and roll

Place the wheat flour in a kneading plate. Add crushed green cardamoms. Form a well and pour ghee into the center. Mix well, using your fingertips and rub the ghee into the flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Now add dissolved sugar syrup and form a stiff dough. 

Knead until everything is well mixed together. Once dough is ready, cover it and allow it to rest for 5-10 minutes. Divide the mixture into 5 equal parts. 

Take rolling pin, roll each ball into a circle of about 5-6" diameter. You can use a round steel lid or round thali as cutter to give perfect round shape.

Step 3 Roasting Time

Heat a heavy bottom griddle pan on a medium heat, place the rolled out circle on it. Roast it on slow flame on both the sides until they become light golden brown. Use chappati press or wad up a clean napkin to press the flatbread.

Pour the ghee into the plate. Now dip this flatbread in ghee. That is straight from the griddle pan to this round plate. Soak it for 10-15 seconds, OR you can apply ghee with the help of spoon whichever option suits you.. 

This flatbread is normally eaten on the succeeding day. It is served with Matho - buttermilk, Dahi Boondi Raita,  Sai Bhaji, Tava Bhindi Fry, Stuffed Karela, Stuffed Bhindi and mango pickle. Other flatbread cooked for this day are Moong Dal Paratha and Besani Koki

Update: -  August 14, 2017,  blog post updated with new images...

Reference:

The day of shitala devi

Wikipedia Shitaladevi  

FestiveofIndia-shitala satam vrat

Also refer

1. SAI BHAJI 

2. Dahi Raita

3. Bhindi Masala

4. Stuffed Karela

5. Sanna Pakora

5. Green chutney 

6. Dahi Wada

7. Dahi Boondi