Palak Paratha

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Palak Paratha / Spinach stuffed Indian bread is a very regular breakfast dish in Northern India, primarily during the winter season. Besides wheat flour, it’s other primary ingredients are leafy palak, potato and some flavorful spices. Palak parathas are a great breakfast option to start you healthy morning.

Palak is a very good source of Vitamin A, which helps to improve eye sight. Not only palak, each and every green, leafy vegetable is good for health. So we should include them in our daily diet.

Now a days spinach is available throughout the year, but there is big difference between seasonal vegetable and off seasonal vegetable. Farmers often need to use more fertilizer to grow off seasonal veggies, so they are not as good as it can be.

Apart from Palak Paratha, there are a lot of more stuffed parathas availabe in India. Aloo (Potato) Paratha, Gobi(Cauliflower) Paratha, Mooli(Reddish) Paratha, Methi Paratha are name of some of the most popular ones. Though Palak Paratha is not as popular as others, still the nutrition it packs inside makes it one of the most nutritious food out there.

Palak Paratha is often served with Curd or Pickle. But it goes very well with curries, dals and sweets. Once it is made , people love to put Butter on top of the hot parathas, which increases the taste and flavor of it.

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INGREDIENTS

1cup-240ml; 1tablespoon – 15ml ; 1teaspoon – 5ml;

Ingredients for palak stuffing

• Palak (Spinach) – 150 gm
• Potato – 2 medium size
• Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Coriander seeds – 1 tsp
• Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
• Asafoetida (Hing) – 1/2 tsp
• Sugar – 1+1/2 tsp
• Salt – 1/2 tsp

Ingredients for paratha dough

• Wheat flour (Atta) – 1+1/4 cup
• Salt – 1/2 tsp
• Water – as per require

To shallow fry the paratha

• Oil or ghee – 1/4 cup

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How to make palak paratha

Step 1: First we need to boil the potatoes. Here I have used microwave oven to boil them. Once boiled, let it cool down a bit and the peel off the skin.

Step 2: Similarly, we need to boil the palak. For this take water in a saucepan and boil it. When it start boiling, add the palak into the water. boil for 6-7 minutes. Once done, wash it with normal water and squeeze out the last drop of the water. And make paste using the blender.

Step 2: On the other hand, take a bowl and add the wheat flour in it. Then add little bit of salt and water to make a loose and soft dough. Now cover it well and leave it aside for sometime.

Step 3: Crush the roasted spices (coriander, cumin and fennel seeds) to fine powder. You can use blender for it.

Step 4: Take a mixing bowl, add the boiled potato, then finely chopped coriander leaves, roasted spices, salt, sugar, asafetida and spinach/palak paste in it. Mix them very well and make sure it does not have any lumps in it.

Step 5: Now, our stuffing is done. We are making 4 parathas with this, so divide them out in 4 parts.

Step 6: Similarly, divide the wheat dough equally in 4 pieces and make balls out of them. Create a little pocket inside the dough ball and put the methi potato stuffing inside it. Close it well, so that the stuffing does not comes out during flattening of the dough.

Step 7: Now, do the same for remaining doughs. Then brush them with little oil.

Step 8: Its time to flattening the dough balls in shape of paratha using rolling board and rolling pins.

Tips: Use a Plastic wrapper/butter pepper on your rolling board before making the parathas. It will prevent to stick the paratha on the board and will come out easily.

Step 9: Take a preheated pan, add little bit oil or ghee and fry the paratha on low flame till you get brownish color on both sides. Flip them occasionally to get both the side evenly cooked. Follow the same for rest of the parathas.

Step 10: Now our Palak Paratha is ready. Serve them hot with some butter and ghee on top with pickle or curd.

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