Paratha is one of the favourite dishes of Punjab. Punjabis feel their breakfast incomplete without parathas and lassi. Its a nutritious meal but a little fattening, so just try it and add it to your meal schedule on weekly basis.
Ingredients:
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Oil for frying
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Loose whole wheat flour
FOR FILLING:
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3 boiled potatoes
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Salt add to taste
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Red chilli powder ½ tspn
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A pinch of turmeric powder
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3-4 sliced green chillies
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½ onion thinly sliced
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½ tspn ground hot spices
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1 tbspn olive oil
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½ tspn chicken stock powder
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3 tbspn Coriander leaves (optional)
DOUGH:
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2 cups Whole wheat flour (aataa)
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1 cup lukewarm water
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2 tbspns olive oil
Procedure:
-Mash potatoes and add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, green chillies, onion, ground hot spices, olive oil, chicken stock powder and coriander leaves ( if you want to) and mix well.
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-Now gradually add water to whole wheat flour and make a dough out of it. Add olive oil. Knead it well and put aside for 20 minutes.
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-After 20 minutes make small balls out of it and if it is sticking to your hands use loose whole wheat flour. You can make 5 pairs of balls out of it.
-Now with the help of a roller, on a flat surface flat these balls and make small, thick chapattis.
-Put some filling in the middle of one chapatti and put the other chapatti on the top of it.
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-By the help of your fingers press the sides of the two chapattis to make one with the filling inside. With your fingers press them and make them thin.
-Use roller to make it more flat and thin. Use loose wholewheat flour if it is sticking to the surface, roller or your hands.
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-When it becomes flat put it on a heated flat pan.
-Now turn over the side and put some oil/ghee/butter on it, so that it can become oily and red from both sides.
-Keep on changing the sides till they both are brown.
-Do the same thing with other chapattis and make 5 parathas.
-Serve them with butter/fried egg/omelate and lassi.
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Outcome:
Your Punjabi parathas are ready.
Tips:
-Use loose wholewheat flour whenever the dough is sticking.
-Mostly use your fingers to make the parathas flat.
-Don’t forget to press and join the two chapattis from the ends after putting the mixture.
-Do not put mixture on the sides of chapattis
-Use less oil for frying, do not make it much oily.
-Boil potatoes to their extreme.
Servings:
This will serve 5 children or 5 adults.
