VEGETABLE PARATHAS

This paratha is a highly nutritious meal, loaded with various vegetables, lot of filling has been kept inside each paratha, and you do not require any side dish for this. Just a bowl of yogurt is more than sufficient.
Please check out my other 13 kinds of rotis and parathas here

Ingredients

For the dough

Whole wheat flour - 2 1/2 cups

Salt - a pinch

Olive oil/gingely oil/cooking oil - 2 tsps

For the filling

Cauliflower - 1 small, grated

Red cabbage - 2 cups, finely chopped

Carrots - 2 cups, chopped

Fresh peas - 1 cup

Potatoes - 2, chopped

Green chillies - 2, chopped

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Carom seeds/ajwain - 3/4 tsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Cumin/jeera powder - 2 tsps

Coriander powder - 2 tsps

Paratha masala powder - 1 tsp

Cooking oil - 2 tsps for the filling, and as needed for the parathas, mixed with some ghee

Salt to taste

Cilantro - a handful, chopped

Recipe Cuisine: North Indian; Category: Lunch/Dinner

Prep time: 15 mts; Cooking time: 20 mts

Yields 12 parathas

First make a soft, pliable dough, and let it rest for 2-3 hours. Heat oil in a pan, season turmeric powder and ajwain seeds.

Then add the green chillies, grated cauliflower and the chopped red cabbage, saute well on slow fire.

Add chilli, jeera and coriander powders

Add salt to taste

In the mean time, cook the carrots, potatoes and peas in a microwave steamer for 8-10 minutes, and mash them well.

Now add the vegetables too, along with the chopped cilantro/coriander leaves

Add the paratha masala powder now and stir well, switch off now.

Pinch 2 small balls from the kneaded dough, roll out two  8" rotis.

Place lot of filling on one roti...and...

cover with the other.

Pat gently, dust in flour, and roll out to a slightly thick paratha

Trim the edges with a pizza cutter

Heat a non stick tava, roast the parathas dry on both sides

flipped over , some oil plus ghee, drizzled around, and cooked well on both sides

Stack the parathas on a plate

You can cut them into halves and serve with any pickle and yogurt or any side dish or a nice chutney.

This post first appeared in www.malpatskitchen.com

Notes

*A small piece of ginger and couple of pods of garlic can be grated and added too, while sauteeing the veggies

* If you do not possess a microwave steamer, you can pressure 

cook the veggies for one whistle, just to soften them.

* we can also stuff the filling inside the dough, and roll, as we do for aloo parathas. Choice is ours.

Categories: No Onion-no garlic, Rotis & Stuffed Parathas