The Indian bread known as chapati or roti or the filled form the Parantha is one thing that is common in this diverse country. It varies in size and shape and even tastes sometimes but it is one of the few things that is common all over this extremely diverse nation.
The Tapasya parantha junction in Rohtak is situated at the Delhi-Rohtak Highway. This local eating point is hugely famous for its jumbo-sized Parantha. This parantha is 1.5 feet in Diameter and weights more than a kg. It is known as the Tapasya Parantha. It has 50 different varieties of it. Customers from all over the nation come to have this Jumbo-sized parantha.
A lot of hard work and dedication goes into the making of this extra large delicacy. It takes about 60 kilogrammes of wheat flour for the parantha. For its filling, they use about 50 kilogrammes of boiled potatoes and 40 kilogrammes of diced onions and also 3 kilogrammes of dry fruits on daily basis. One parantha weighs about one kg. That is the size of about 5-6 normal sized parantha. It is not easy to cook these famous paranthas. It takes a lot of practice to cook these paranthas especially the ones that are stuffed then cooked. Also, it takes a special tawa to cook these paranthas that are 5 times bigger than the normal sized tawa. There are also specially trained cooks who cook these extraordinary paranthas.
The Tapasya parantha Junction has an interesting challenge related to these jumbo sized paranthas. This challenge is to have 3 jumbo paranthas in just a time of 50 minutes, if you win the challenge you get a life insurance worth rupees 1 lakh and a lifetime worth of paranthas for free. On the other hand, if you lose you have to pay for all the 3 paranthas.
This not so small parantha is definitely a must treat for your taste buds.
