Besan Parathas-healthy bread with fenugreek!!!

This Indian flat-bread is made up of varieties of flour and cooked on a pan with butter or oil,a very popular dish and is mostly consumed for breakfast to kick start the day.They can be divided in two categories:

1. Plain Parathas-the flour is just mixed with butter or oil to form a dough and rolled out in to round,square or triangles.In this too one can add vegetables and spices to the dough to make it more interesting.
2. Stuffed parathas-The dough is flattened and stuffed with any desired vegetarian or non-vegetarian stuffing and then rolled out in to desired shape.

In this recipe I made both the stuffed paratha and plain paratha.Give it a try!!!

Cooking Time-20 mins

Preparation Time-20 mins

Yields-5

Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat Flour- 1cup
• Gram flour/Chickpea flour/Besan- 1cup 
• Fenugreek leaves/Methi leaves(chopped)- 1bunch
• Corriander Leaves/Dhanya/Kotmir(chopped)- 1/4bunch
• Onions(chopped)- 1no medium size
• Green chillies(chopped)-3
• Red chilli powder- 1tsp
• Carom seeds/Ajwain seeds- pinch
• Cumin Seeds/Zeera- 1/4tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil for pan frying

Cooking Method:

• Take wheat flour in a bowl,add salt and little by little water to form a firm but soft dough and then add Fenugreek leaves,green chillies and corriander leaves.Knead again.Keep it aside.

• Take Gram flour in a bowl add onions,red chilli powder,Carom seeds,cumin seeds and salt and little by little water to make a soft dough.

Note:Add little by little water  else the besan dough turns sticky.

Now you can make the parathas in two ways,the stuffed method as well as Roll-in-one method:

1. In the stuffed method I have used Besan dough as stufing and then rolled them in to parathas.
2. In the Roll-in-one method I mixed both the doughs and then rolled out.This gives the parathas a nice bi-colored look.

• Heat a pan smear little oil and the put the paratha.cook for 2 mins and turn.Cook evenly on both sides till nice golden brown.
• Serve hot with cool Curd.

This goes to Yasmeen's event