Method:
Combine flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre.
Pour in the water, condensed milk, margarine/ ghee and egg.
Gather towards centre with your fingers, loosely, gently till all the flour is mixed in with the wet ingredients and begins to hold together in on mass.
Drop this mass of dough onto a clean, large work surface and begin to knead gently. Do not apply too much force to begin with. Start gently, adding a little love. Trust me it makes a difference!
Once it is somewhat elastic, knead with a little more effort, rolling the dough as you do so.
In total knead about 8 minutes.
Roll into a cylindrical log and then cut into 10 equal sized discs.
Knead each disc gently into a smooth ball, then press to flatten slightly and lay alongside but not stacked in a large tray.
Rub each disk with some margarine, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest overnight or 6-8 hours.
The dough should be very elastic by now. Using an oiled worktop and oiled fingers, flatten the disk using fingers while pushing around the edges to extend and make the disk as large as possible. Then lift this streched disk and flap in the air using both hands till it develops into a thin round sheet using your palms more than fingers to prevent tearing the roti. (Okay so that needs some practice, If you’re starting out – pull around the edges, evenly till you can stretch it no further into a large sheet, once it starts developing holes on the side, that means stop stretching)
stretch as thinly as possible without making holes in it.
Now you will have large elongated sheet in front of you.
Heat your griddle stone or pan for frying the roti cani.
Brush with an oiled paper towel.
Sprinkle margarine all over the sheet. Fold upwards and inwards (¼width of the entire sheet) from both sides vertically. so that you have staright vertical edges.
Now fold upwards and inwards the top and bottom just towards the centre so that the bottom ‘just’ overlaps the top, Press these overlapping edges gently with fingers to seal and you now have a square shaped roti.
Flip this ‘sealed’ side down onto the hot pan and allow to turn golden. Then flip, sprinkle some margarine and allow the other side to turn golden.