Spinach Paratha



For the Dough

Wheat flour - 1cup
Water - as reqd
Oil - 1tsp
Salt - to taste

Spinach  filling

Chopped Spinach - 2cups
Chilli flakes - 1/2 tsp(adjust with your taste)
Asafetida - a pinch
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste

Method:

Mix together flour,salt,oil and water.Make a smooth dough.Cover it and keep it aside for 15 minutes.


Heat oil in a pan .Add asafetida and cumin seeds.After the cumin seeds crack add the chilli flakes,mix well.Add the chopped spinach to this.Cook the spinach until most of the water has evaporated.Add salt to this stage.Allow them to cool.


  Make medium balls from the dough .roll it 3 inch circles.Add the filling and close it like dumpling.Keep it aside for 4 minutes.



Heat a pan on  medium high.Roll the parathas(keep the sealed side on top).Place it over the heated pan.After paratha start changing the colour and puffing flip the paratha over.Spread oil on the paratha.Flip the paratha and slightly press it with a spatula.Make sure the paratha is golden brown  colour on both sides.Serve hot with curd and pickle.

Comments

  1. SanghiOctober 4, 2009 at 5:06 AM

    Wow.. delicious healthy spinach paratha.! First time here, lovely blog! I'm following! Do check mine!

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  2. PadmaOctober 4, 2009 at 5:52 AM

    Healthy and delicious paratha... nice photos

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  3. Sushma MallyaOctober 4, 2009 at 6:09 AM

    Healthy & delicious...Nice stuffing sree..got to try this soon

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  4. PriyaOctober 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM

    Healthy spinach paratha looks prefect...yumm!

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  5. Sangeetha SubhashOctober 4, 2009 at 1:18 PM

    nalla asssalayitundalloo....Nicely presented dear...innale enikkum...
    but dfntly better than mine...hahhaha

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  6. Sandhya HariharanOctober 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM

    Lovely Presentation.. n indeed quite yummy..

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  7. BabliOctober 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM

    Very beautiful presentation.Spinach paratha looks delicious. I love eating all types of stuffed parathas and shall try your lovely recipe.

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  8. VarunaviOctober 4, 2009 at 7:10 PM

    Lovely and healthy paratha.

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  9. BabliOctober 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM

    Please accept your award from my blog.

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  10. Sarah NaveenOctober 5, 2009 at 6:41 AM

    Simply yummy and healthy dea...

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  11. Vidya RaoOctober 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Nice pics, Sree! Will try it out sometime.

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  12. DivyaOctober 21, 2009 at 1:18 AM

    i tried this one... its the best way to have spinach..its really tasty n healthy.. thanks sree for this recipe

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