Palak Paratha

Palak paratha is a Indian Flatbread recipe made with spinach and flavored with different spices. It can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner along with the side of Carrot Raita.

There are two ways of making this dish. First, blanche and puree spinach leaves and mix it with the whole wheat flour along with the spices. No water or very little water is added to the dough while kneading. In the second method, spinach is sautéed and add to the wheat flour along with spices and knead into a dough using water.

Ingredients:

3 cups whole-wheat flour
1 large bunch spinach coarsely chopped
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp asafetida powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 tsp Garam masala
Ghee

PREPARATION:

1. Take ghee in a kadhai, add coriander powder, cumin powder, asafetida, turmeric powder.

2. Add spinach and sauté till its cooked.

3. Add salt and red chilli powder.

4.Once this mixture cools down, mix it with the whole-wheat flour and at this stage, add garam masala

5. knead into a fine dough using water.set dough for 1 hour.

6. Make small equal sized balls and make parathas as usual. Apply ghee on both sides of parathas.

Serve with Carrot Raita.