Mitho Lolo Sindhi Sweet Flatbread is a thick sweet flatbread from Sindhi made with wheat flour, sugar, and ghee. This is also made with jaggery and requires slow fire cooking as the chapati is very thick. Once cooked, it's soaked in ghee.
This is served as breakfasts by the Sindhis though the trend is fast disappearing. I read about this when Vaishali posted it and she says we can easily call this the sweet version of the Sindhi Koki. Kids will surely love to snack on this.
Apart from this being very delicious to enjoy, Mitho Lolo has a lot of significance in Sindhi culture. It is a must to prepare these after a person has recovered from chickenpox. These are also prepared at a festival called Thadri. Thadri is a festival where the Sindhis cook a variety of flatbreads. During the Thadri, no cooking happens in the house so this mitho lolo along with Moong Daal Parathas, a few other dry saute dishes, curd dishes, sanna pakoras are made a day prior.
So this sweet flatbread from Sindhi is my choice for M in the A to Z International Street Foods. If you are interested to know what's M for Street Food, Check my other space.
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Step by Step Pictures for making Mitho Lolo 
Mitho Lolo ~ Sindhi Sweet Flatbread
Ingredients Needed:
1 cup Wheat Flour
8 tsp Sugar
8 tsp Ghee
1/4 cup Water
How to make Mitho Lolo
In a bowl mix sugar and water, keep it aside for 1 to 2 hours, or till sugar dissolves.
In another bowl, take the flour, add 4 tsp ghee and mix in well until the flour looks very crumbly.
Slowly add the sugar water and knead to a thick and hard dough.
Divide the dough into two balls.
Roll out to a thick chapati and heat a tawa.
Grease well and cook the chapati on low flame and cook on both sides.
Keep pressing the Lolo gently with the help of a dry napkin and turn sides occasionally.
In a bowl add the ghee.
When the chapati is golden, remove it from the fire and place it on the ghee. Add some more ghee on top.
Keep the mitho lolo covered.
The Lolo will absorb the ghee
Remove the Lolo from the plate and serve.
The Lolo is generally served with pickle and papad.
I had it as such, even when it became cold it was delicious bread to enjoy.
Recipe
Mitho Lolo ~ Sindhi Sweet Flatbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup Wheat flour
- 8 tsp Sugar
- 8 tsp Ghee
- 1/4 cup Water
Instructions
- In a bowl mix sugar and water, keep it aside for 1 to 2 hours, or till sugar dissolves.
- In another bowl, take the flour, add 4 tsp ghee and mix in well until the flour looks very crumbly.
- Slowly add the sugar water and knead to a thick and hard dough.
- Divide the dough into two balls.
- Roll out to a thick chapati and heat a tawa.
- Grease well and cook the chapati on low flame and cook on both sides.
- Keep pressing the Lolo gently with the help of a dry napkin and turn sides occasionally.
- In a bowl add the ghee.
- When the chapati is golden, remove from fire and place it on the ghee. Add some more ghee on top.
- Keep the mitho lolo covered.
- The Lolo will absorb the ghee
- Remove the Lolo from the plate and serve.
- The Lolo is generally served with pickle and papad.
- I had it as such, even when it became cold it was delicious bread to enjoy.
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Sandhiya says
Mitho Lolo sounds so rich and delicious and tt must be so flavorful with ghee!!! That's an interesting info to know about Sindhi Culture and this flatbread significance in the festivals !!!
vaishalisabnani says
Valli , I was waiting for you to post this .. I remember you asking me about it . This is a recipe from my daughter ‘s mil and she literally soaks the Lolo in ghee. The Lolo has come out perfect , nice and crisp ! And yes I love those garnishings on top .
kalyani says
at this rate, whatever flatbreads we post in Sep would be a revision class for u 🙂 isnt it 🙂
! lolo looks well made with that golden hue
Priya Suresh says
Wow, this sweet sindhi flatbread is very irresistible and droolworthy, with ghee, am sure lolo will definitely tickle my tastebuds..Delicious.
srividhya says
Wow, the traditions and rituals of Sindhis are amazing... Thanks for sharing those facts. Wonderful sweet flat bread. Between I have the same question as Kalyani. 😉
Priya Srinivasan says
I remember these lolo's from vaishali's space!!! Nice to know about the traditions behind the bread! can imagine the taste of these ghee soaked crisp sweet bread, would love to try it sometime!!!
Gayathri Kumar says
I have tasted koki, but never tried this sweet version. It surely looks delicious. I remember Vaishali's post on this..
Harini says
Such a rich and delicious flatbread. There are so many traditional Sindhi recipes I have bookmarked from Vaishali's place. I need to clear up those bookmarks.
Sharmila - The Happie Friends Potpourri Corner says
Ghee ,Sugar and wheatflour definitely makes a healthy and yummy flatbread.. This is divine..
Pavani says
Loved reading about the Sindhi traditions Valli. This is a delicious looking sweet flat bread. Cooking with ghee must have made them taste divine.
mayurisjikoni says
Loved reading about the Sindhi tradition. We have a similar day when no cooking takes place and food is prepared the previous day and eaten cold n tadhiseri day. Mitho Lolo brings back sweet memories. My mum use to make sweet bhakri for us when we were young.
manjulabharathkumar2016 says
Mitho lolo looks so scrumptious and literally making my mouth water 🙂 Such an delicious preparation.. We make something similar at home with jaggery. How wonderfully you have explained the traditions valli good job !!. We celebrate sithala saptami the same way nice to know the similarity in festivals. Another fantastic reccipe from you !!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
This is my kind of flatbread and I grew up eating sweet parathas. My mom would make that to me often and I agree that they taste yummy warm or cold. Love the flavor of ghee 🙂
Padmajha PJ says
Sweet flatbread soaked in ghee! That must be so delicious!! Nice reading about the significance of this dish in the Sindhi Cuisine.
sapna says
I have been planning to make this mitho lolo since I saw this in Vaishalis blog. You have made it perfectly and I can feel the crispy taste by looking at the bread.
Suma Gandlur says
I wasn't expecting crisp breads. Sounds like a great snack for me to munch on and I need to try this.
Simply Tadka says
Wow.. one more sweet bread recipe as my kid love sweet breads... healthy too