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Matar Parantha
- By Shweta Arora
- Published February 22nd, 2009
- Indian Breads/Paranthas , Main Course - Veg , Breakfast
- Unrated
Shweta Arora
Once I have heard someone telling that cooking is nothing but just the right combination of salt and spices.
But I really disagree!
If it would have been true then why the same dal serve in you platter daily, tastes different everyday?
Why you always miss your mom and say, "Ma ke haath wali baat nahin hai...!"?
Have you ever noticed when you are in a good mood and enjoying while cooking, you tend to make a tastier food rather than when you are in a bad mood...??
I am my mom's daughter a typical mumma's child..:) as everyone says, so my love for cooking and serving food properly are in my genes, transfered to me by my mom!! I started cooking food because of my mother and my brother.
As my mom cooks very well and my brother is fond of eating varieties. And now my son, whenever he goes to visit them in vacations, he enjoys his Mamu's company coz he makes him enjoy in all the way.... movies, parties, malls and top of them.. good food at various joints.
Once my son comes back to home, he insisits 'Ma, I want to have this and that... which I had there...'. and all this makes me to cook and serve him whatever he wants....
Ingredients
For the stuffing
Par boiled, drained and mashed Green Peas 1cup
Coriander leaves, finely chopped 1tbsp
Ginger, grated 1tsp
Green chillies, finely chopped 1tsp
Salt to taste
Red chilli powder 1/4tsp
Ajwain 1/4tsp
Assofitida a pinch
Oil to cook,
Whole-wheat flour (Atta) dough, as you would do for any parantha/roti.
Method
Take 1 tsp oil in a non stick pan. Put it on flame add cumin seeds and asafetida .Let it crackle. Add boiled, drained and mashed green peas.
Add salt, ginger, red chilli powder, ajwain and green chillies to it and mix it properly. Cook for 2 minutes. Remove from fire. Cool.
Add coriander leaves.
Take a small ball of dough. Flatten the dough and roll it with a rolling pin.
Make medium sized chapatti. Put a spoon full of filling on the chapatti and cover it from the sides so as to seal it properly.
Now roll it into a round parantha and take care the stuffing should not come out.
On a preheated tawa (flat griddle plate), cook the parantha from one side, turn the side and cook from both the sides.
Brush the side with oil and turn the parantha, shallow fry till golden brown and crisp.
Serve Matar parantha hot with yogurt (curd), butter and pickles or chutney.