Stuffed Paratha
Stuffed Paratha serve best as tiffin and breakfast items and is very commonly available in North Indian states. Stuffed Paratha is very nutritious and tasty too requiring almost no side dish. Preparation of Stuffed Paratha is unique and it requires real expertise in rolling out the wheat dough without breaking. You can add any veggies of your choice and for those who count on nutrition; Stuffed Paratha is the ideal choice. These parathas are the best alternative compared to plain ones and the dish goes great with curd chutney and pickle. You can explore a step wise narrated Stuffed Paratha dish here.
Ingredients
- For Stuffing:
- 5-6 nos Beans finely chopped
- 1/4 cup Peas
- 1/2 cup Carrot finely chopped
- 1 no Potato boiled and mashed, small
- 2 nos Green Chillies finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
- Salt As reqd
- For covering:
- 1 cup Wheat flour
- 3 tsp Oil
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Paneer or Milk
Instructions
- For preparing Stuffed Paratha, first cook the chopped vegetables: beans, peas and carrot with little water.
- Squeeze out water from the vegetables using your hand and mash them. (You can save this water and use it while kneading.)
- Mix together salt, green chillies and garam masala powder with the mashed vegetables and potato. Keep the mixture aside.
- Knead the wheat flour with oil, salt, paneer and desired amount of water to make a dough(just like chappathi dough).
- Pluck out small balls from the dough and pat it with hand to make it a little bigger.
- Place a lemon sized stuffing in it`s middle and close it.
- Roll out gently, smear ghee and put it on the tawa.
- Cook till both sides are crisp and done.
- Tasty and nutritious Stuffed Parathas are ready.
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