VEGETABLE PARATHA

Ingredients for stuffing:

• Potatoes - 2 [ large ]
• Carrots - 2
• Beet root - 1
• Peas - 1/4 cup [ shelled ]
• Onion - 1 [ chopped finely ]
• Green chillies - 4 to 5 [ make into paste ]
• Lemon juice - 1 tabl sp
• Cumin seeds - 1/4 sp
• Salt - as required
• Cut coriander leaves - 1 tbl. sp
• Oil - 2 tbl . sp

Ingredients for making paratha:

• Wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Maida - 1/4 cup
• Melted butter - 1 tbl . sp
• Salt - as per taste
• sugar - 1/4 sp
  

Method:
Sieve and mix the flours together in a mixing bowl. Add salt, sugar, and butter, mix well with the flour till the butter blends. Gradually add water and knead to a smooth dough. Pat and knead well for several times. Make balls and roll out into medium sized parathas. Roast on a hot tawa first on one side. Turn over and apply little oil on top. When it roasts into light brown colour on both sides, remove from the tawa. This is the method of making parathas.


Method of stuffing:
Pressure cook potatoes along with grated carrots. Beetroot and peas in other container. Peel and mash potatoes, crush peas. Heat oil and season with cumin  [ 1/4 sp ] seeds. Fry onions for 2 mins. Squeeze out extra water from carrots, beetroot, and add to onions. Continue frying with mashed potatoes and crushed peas. Add salt, chili paste and lemon juice, mix well and remove from the fire. Garnish with cut coriander leaves. stuff 1 1/2 table spoons of filling for each paratha . Take small lemon size ball from the dough, spread into small puri apply little oil to that, put the filling and close it. Apply little dry wheat flour and spread into 1/2 inch thick parathas. Place it on hot tawa roast both sides to light brown applying little oil or ghee to that. Your yummy vegetable paratha is ready to eat. Serve hot with curd.