Dal Paratha
Dal paratha is a healthy and quick recipe to be served for breakfast or even for lunch or dinner. You can also use leftover dal for this recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1.5 Cups Boiled Dal (Thick)
- 1/2 Cup Finely Chopped Onion
- 2 Tbsp Coriander Leaves
- 1 Tbsp Carom Leaves (Ajwain) You can also use carom seeds instead
- 1 Tsp Green Chilli
- 1 Tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 Tsp Red Chilli Powder
- Salt to taste
- Water as required
- Ghee/Oil
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add boiled dal. You can also use leftover dal.
- Add whole wheat flour, finely chopped onion, salt, coriander leaves, carom leaves, green chilli, turmeric powder and red chilli powder.
- Mix everything well together.
- Knead a soft dough, adding water in batches.
- Give a generous coat of ghee, cover and let it rest for 15 – 20 mins.
- Once the dough is well rested, knead again till smooth.
- Make equal sized balls from the dough.
- Roll out the dough, apply ghee and give a shape of your choice.
- Roll out using dry flour.
- On a preheated tawa, cook parathas on both sides.
- Apply ghee and cook till crisp.
- Serve hot.
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Notes
- You can also use oil instead of ghee for frying parathas but ghee or butter is suggested.
- Keep in check the temperature of tawa and regulate it from high to low flame as required. It should neither be too hot to burn the parathas or too cold.
- Adjust spices as per taste.
- Resting dough is very important as it absorbs the water content properly and becomes smooth.
- Smooth and soft dough makes good parathas as it helps in spreading easily.
- Cook on a high flame and lower the flame immediately after applying ghee and fry parathas pressing them gently to get crisp crust.