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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

LACHHA PARATHA


LACHHA PARATHA RECIPE



Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour (Atta) as per consumption
1 tbsp Oil
Salt as per taste
Butter/Ghee (Pure ghee) for frying
Water for kneading.

You can also add ajwain to it.



 How to make lachha paratha:
·         Make dough out of whole-wheat flour (atta), 1tbsp oil & salt, as you would do for any paratha/roti.
·         Make dough 30 minutes before and cover it with moist muslin cloth.
·         Take a Ping-Pong ball size lump of dough. Now roll it into a circle of appox. 5 to 6 " diameter using dry flour. Heat the ghee so that it turns to liquid.
·         Now spread the ghee properly over entire surface.
·         Using a knife make a 2" cut lengthways and fold it inwards .
·         Spread Oil on every fold. Now press it lightly towards the center to show the        layers clearly and roll like a paratha. (Refer the picture).
·         Cook on a pre-heated Tawa (flat griddle plate).
·         Turn the lachha paratha and pour half tablespoon oil or butter.
·         Spread it on the paratha and shallow fry over low heat.
·         Turn it and again pour oil or butter on the other side.
·          Cook the lachha paratha on a low heat  till golden brown.
·         Enjoy it with any vegetable or garlic chutney.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Mix Vegetable Paratha


 Mix Vegetable Paratha Recipe

Ingredients:-
500 gm wheat flour (mix paratha)
2 potato (alu)
2 onion (pyaj)
2 carrot (gajar)
1 small cauliflower (phool gobi)
100 gm spinach (palak)
2 green chilly (hari mirch)
1 tsp salt (namak)
1 tsp red chilly powder (lal mirch)
1/4 tsp spice blend (garam masala)
oil as required


How to make mix vegetable paratha:-

  • Mix salt and 1 tbsp oil in flour and knead into simple dough.
  • Boil and peel potato.
  • Grate alu, gajar, pyaj and gobi.
  • Finely chop palak and hari mirch.
  • Now mix all these along with salt, lal mirch and garam masala to prepare the stuffing.
  • Make small balls of the dough and roll each into small chapatti.
  • Stuff these with the above mixture and again roll into thin chapatti.
  • Cook them on both sides on a pan (tawa).
  • Apply oil on both sides while cooking and serve them hot.
  • Ghee can also be applied instead of oil and makes chapattis tastier.
  • Cook chapattis at low flame pressing on all sides.
  • Serve with tomato ketchup, curd or with pudina chutney.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Pudina Puri


Pudina Puri Recipe

Ingredients:

250- gm wheat flour (gehun ka atta)
1/2- cup fresh mint (pudina)
salt to taste
clarified butter (ghee) for frying



 How to make pudina puri:
 ·         Wash and grind pudina.
·         Now mix atta, pudina, salt and 1 tbsp ghee.
·         Knead into hard dough.
·         Make small balls of the dough and roll each into small puris.
·         Heat ghee in a pan.
·         Fry each puri in ghee.
·         When cooked on one side turn it and cook on the other side also until it turns       light brown.
·         Serve them hot.
·         You can enjoy this with any kind of chutney or tomato ketchup.