Ingredients
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 and half cups of water
2 cups Grated Paneer
1 green chilli
1 medium size onion minced
4-5 mint leaves finely chopped
Finely chopped cilantro
1 Tbsp lime juice
salt to taste
1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
1 Tbsp grated ginger
1 tsp oil
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
Recipe
Prepare the dough
In a bowl take the whole wheat
flour, add water slowly and make a dough.
Refer to chapathi/phulka post
to know how to make a dough.
Keep the prepared dough aside for at least 10 minutes.
Prepare the filling
Heat a pan, add oil. Once the oil is hot add cumin seeds
After cumin seeds splutter, add grated paneer chilli, minced onion, mint
leaves,cilantro,lime juice, salt garam masala powder and ginger.Keep sauteing till excess moisture gets evaporated.This is to make sure the paneer mixture is dry.
Prepare the paratha
Heat a Tawa/pan.
Make equal number of balls of the dough and paneer mixture. The balls should be of same size. Take a dough ball and roll out a small chapathi. Stuff paneer into the chapathi and close the edges of the rolled chapathi together to make a ball again.
Dust the stuffed ball in dry wheat flour and roll out gently to make a paratha.
put the paratha on the tawa and wait till the paratha changes color. flip it to the other side and cook.keep pressing the paratha with the spatula. once brown spots appear, drizzle oil/butter on the paratha and cook till a golden brown color is seen on both sides.
Serve hot with Raita and pickle or a curry
