Palak Paratha
Soups Gravy & Parathas · Easy · 2,112 views
Ingredients
Directions
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Take a bowl and add wheat flour and mix in chopped spinach in it.
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Add salt, green chilies, onion, ginger paste and oil in the flour.
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Knead the dough by gradually adding water.
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Make sure to knead a soft and smooth dough.
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Grease the dough with oil and cover it with damp cloth.
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Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
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Now pinch a medium sized ball dough, roll and flatten it with your fingers a little bit.
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With the help of spoon spread some oil in the middle of flatten dough and close the edges.
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Dust some flour on the rolling surface and roll the dough ball in a thin circle like chapathi or paratha. Do not roll it too thin keep it a little thick.
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Heat a tawa on medium flame and put the paratha on it. Let it cook on it for 1 minute.
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When the base of paratha is partially cooked flip the other side.
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Let it cook from the other side until the brown spots appear.
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Spread some oil on top and spread evenly on paratha.
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Flip the side and spread some oil on the other side as well.
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Keep the flame medium and press the paratha gently with a ladle and cook it till brown spos appear on both sides.
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Palak paratha is ready, take it out of tawa.
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Continue the same process with remaining dough.
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Serve hot with pickle or chatni.
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__________________Note: You can make this paratha in another way as well. Simply blanch spinach and create a puree from it and mix it with the dough.
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Skip the green chili if you are serving for kids.
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Palak paratha taste great when roasted with ghee instead of oil.
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You can even add coriander leaves for more flavors.
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You can give diversity to this paratha to a palak paneer paratha. You just need to stuff the paneer (cottage cheese) stuffing into palak paratha.
