Friday, 1 July 2011

Rotis & Parotas


1.                                               Palak Paratha (Parota)

Ingredients:

Wheat flour               2 glasses
Spinach leaves          10 leaves
Coriander leaves      1/2 cup
Green Chillies          3-4
Ginger                      1/2 inch
Garlic                       2 flakes (Optional for those who don't eat garlic.)
Salt                           According to taste
Oil                           3 sps
Little water             For mixing dough.

Method :

Mix all the ingredients (except oil & flour), grain together with water & make a paste. Add the paste on the flour with 3 spoons of oil & make a dough. Now make small small balls & make parathas, put it on the tava & heat it till it becomes brown. Apply ghee or oil on both the sides of parathas. Ready.
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2.                                                       Nan
                                                                                                                                  
Ingredients :

Maida                                             2 cups
Cooking Soda                                1/2 teaspoon
Dry Yeast                                        3/4th tbl sp
Curd                                                1/2 cup
Warm Milk                                      1/2 cup
Ghee                                                2 tbl sp
Salt                                                  According to taste
Warm Water                                    1/2 cup.

Method:

Take one big vessel & put maida. Add salt, cooking soda in the maida & mix well. Take a warm milk, add dry yeast in the milk, mix well & keep aside for 10 mins. Then add 1/2 cup curd on the milk & beat well. Pour this mixture in maida. Take 2 tbl sp of ghee, heat it, add it to maida & mix well. Knead the dough with warm water. Keep the dough for 1 hr in a big vessel & close it with a lid. After 1 hr the dough will become double in size.
Make big balls & spread it like parota [the parota (nan) should be in 1/2 inch thick]. In order to get a proper shape, drag the end portion of nan slightly.
Keep 1 aluminium tava on the gas. Apply little water on one side of nan & put the wet side of nan on tava. After 2 mins, just show the tava directly to the high flame. When the nan gets ready, remove from the tava & apply butter on it, & sprinkle roasted sesame. Your nan is ready.
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3.                                            Paneer Parota

Ingredients :

Paneer [Grated]                                     1cup
Wheat flour                                           2 cup
Onions [Grated]                                    2
Green chillie [finely chopped]               2
Ginger [chopped]                                 1/2 inch
Oil                                                     1/2 cup for rosting & kneading
Salt                                                     As per taste
Corriander leaves
[finely chopped]                                  2 tbl sp
Black pepper powder                          1 tsp.

Method :

Take one bowl, put grated paneer, grated onion, chopped chillies, ginger, little salt, chopped coriander leaves, black pepper powder & mix well. Keep this mixture in the oven for 5 mins. After it becomes cool, add wheat flour to that & mix well. Add 2 tbl sp of oil to that, & pour some warm water & form a dough. From that make big balls & spread the parotas. Put it in hot tava, roast  both the sides of it well, in a low flame. When your parota gets ready, remove from the gas. Serve it with a cup of curd & pickle.
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4.                                            Aaloo Parota

Ingredents :


Wheat flour                                     2 cups
Boiled smashed
potatoes                                         4
Green chillie, ginger,
garlic paste                                     1 tsp
Salt                                                As per taste
Turmeric powder                           1/2 sp
Red chille powder                          1 sp
Dhania jeera powder                       1 sp
Ajwain [omam]                              1/2 sp
Cut coriander
leaves                                            Little
Oil                                                As required.

For stuffing :

Take smashed potatoes in a vessel. Add salt, turmeric, green chillie, ginger, garlic. Grind them together & form a paste. Now add red chillie powder, dhania jeera powder, ajwain, cut coriander leaves. Mix them well & keep aside.

Method :

Take wheat flour & add a pinch of  salt, 3 tbl sp of oil & mix well. Add little water to it & form a dough. Make big balls from that & spread it little. Apply little oil on that & then fill 1 tbl sp of stuff & close it. Again spread it with a 1/2 inch thickness & form a thick paratha. Keep an iron tava on a gas, heat it & put the paratha on the tava & roast both the sides of the paratha well. When it gets ready, remove from the fire. Serve hot with thick curd & pickle. You can also put some butter on the top of parota.

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