Methi Paratha

Ingredients:
Wheat flour 2 cups

Finely chopped Fenugreek or Menthi leaves ¾ cup to 1 cup

Oil for making parathas

Salt as needed

Preparation:

1. In a big bowl mix fenugreek or menthi leaves, wheat flour and salt. Add water and knead into chapathi dough. Make small balls and flatten the balls using chapathi making roller into a 7 inch diameter chapathi or you can  make them as triangular parathas too. See this link for making triangular parathas.

2. Heat a tawa and put the menthi paratha on the tawa. When cooked on one side spread ½ teaspoon of oil along the circumference and flip it over to other side and cook for 1 minute.

Tofu Paratha

Tofu has protein and calcium …

Ingredients:

Wheat flour 2 cups

Firm tofu 1 cup

Coriander powder ½ teaspoon

Red chilli powder ½ teaspoon (optional)

Salt as needed

Oil to make the parathas

Preparation:

1. Crumble the tofu into soft paste. In a bowl add wheat flour, coriander powder, red chilli powder (I didn’t use) and salt. Add water and knead into a chapathi dough. Make the dough into small balls and flatten the ball. Make the crumbled tofu into a small ball and place it in the flattened dough. Gently seal the edges and dust in dry wheat and make it into 7 inch round.

 2. Heat a tawa and put the tofu paratha on the pan. Add half teaspoon of oil along the circumference and when cooked one side flip it over to the other side and cook for about a minute.

3. Serve with curry or ketchup for kids.

Millet Potatoes Roti or Bajra aloo roti

Ingredients:
Bajra flour or millet flour 2 cups
Potatoes 2 big sized
Coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon
Pepper powder 1/4 teaspoon
Ghee / Oil for making rotis
Salt as needed


Preparation:
1. Cook the potatoes and mash them into soft paste.
2. Add coriander powder,pepper powder and salt mashed potatoes.Make them into 6 to 7 balls .
3. Make the bajra flour into atta by adding 1 cup of warm water or warm milk.
4. Divide them into 6 to 7 balls. Make them into small flat rounds keep the potatoes balls into it.
Carefully make them into flat big rotis of 5 inches.
5. Heat a tava put the roti on it after it is cooked on one side add a teaspoon of ghee/oil and flip
over to the other side until both sides are golden brown.

Paratha (Plain)

Ingredients:

Wheat flour 2 cups
Water/Milk 1 cup
Oil 1 teaspoon
Ghee /oil for applying
Salt as needed


Preparation
1. In a bowl add wheat flour and add salt ,oil and warm water or milk and mix well.

2. Knead it into a thick dough and incase the dough is thin add more wheat flour, knead the flour till the flour becomes non sticky.


3.Divide the dough into portions balls.

4. Flatten these balls and and make them as a circle. Apply three drops of ghee or oil.

5.Fold it into half as a half circle.

6. Fold them into quarter circle this looks like a triangle.

7.Move the chapathi roller over it and make it into a triangle.

8.Grease the chapathi tawa with oil and put the paratha on it cook the paratha  on one side and flip it over to other side now put 1/4 teaspoon of oil around the border and cook till it turns into golden color.

Serve with kurma or aloo masala curry