My eight year old girl loves to help me in the kitchen so I’m always simplifying recipes to make things easy for her. Here’s a very easy paneer paratha recipe that requires no stuffing – just incorporate everything into the dough and roll out the parathas and cook on the tava
Overview
- Makes 8 parathas
- Difficulty – Moderate
Ingredients
- One cup whole wheat atta
- One cup grated paneer (I use Tesco paneer blocks)
- 3 tbsp yogurt
- 1/2 tsp ajwain
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander
- 3 to 4 chopped green chillis (skip if making for kids)
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp oil for kneading
- A little water for kneading
- Oil or ghee for cooking (I prefer to use ghee)
Method
- Put all the ingredients (except oil and water) in a large mixing bowl and mix well with a wooden spoon
- Add water slowly and knead well to form a dough. Don’t add too much water else the dough will be very sticky.
- Add the oil and knead well for a few minutes till the dough is soft
- Oil your hands lightly and divide the dough into 8 balls and cover and keep aside for 15-20 minutes
- Roll out all the balls using a little flour to stop them from sticking
- Heat a tava and drizzle some ghee or oil
- Put one rolled paratha to cook
- Drizzle some more ghee or oil on the top of the uncooked side and flip over when the side facing the bottom starts to get golden brown
- Cook on the other side for a few minutes and keep aside and smear with some ghee
- Cook all the parathas in the same manner and stack them on top of each other to keep them soft
- Serve with coriander chutney
