Stuffed Aloo Palak Paratha it is!!
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Roti, Paratha's have always been my first love and I find it a convenient medium to stuff a lot of vegetables inside them. Do you? If not stuffed paratha's, I enjoy making Vegetable Roti's/ phulka's 🙂
These vegetable roti's are a great way to include vegetables into the diet without a big fuss. The vegetables are often steamed, pureed , added to the wholewheat flour and kneaded into a dough with minimal spices. How easy do they look!! Well that's how they are to cook too. Roll them flat into small discs and cook them on the tava, flipping them on either side.
When I have a lot of spinach stacked in my refrigerator, I end up making these Spinach Roti's or Palak Paneer or a curry with Spinach. Knowing my kids, I know adding potatoes to their paratha's will make them smile wide..
A lot of people on Instagram were actually keen to know about the green dough for this stuffed paratha's. Well the secret is Spinach/ Palak. Instead of making a stuffing of spinach and potato together, I have used 2 layers to bring the flavours in to the flat bread.
Keeping their desires in mind, I decided to make these Stuffed Palak Aloo Paratha 's. This recipe is incredibly easy and the spinach whole wheat flour dough works serves a 2 in 1 purpose. You may make roti's with them and you can stuff them with mashed spiced potato mixtures.
I tend to cook a lot of paratha's for little ones specially as it saves me some time from constantly asking them eat all the vegetables on the plate separately and I do not need to make an additional side dish.
What are you favourite paratha's that your family enjoy's?
Aloo Paratha are undoubtedly the favourite most at our home followed by Cauliflower Paratha, Paneer Paratha and many more..
Ingredients
Spinach Dough
- 2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
- 130 grams Spinach Palak
- ¼ Cup + a few tbsp Water
- ½ Inch Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Powder
- ¾-1 teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Mango Amchur Powder ( Optional) ½ Tsp
- 1-2 No's Green Chillies Optional
- 1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil
Potato Filling Mixture
- 4 medium Potatoes cooked
- Salt to taste
- ¼ Cup coriander leaves finely chopped
- ¾ teaspoon Cumin Powder
- ½ teaspoon Garam Masala
- ½ teaspoon Red Chilli Powder optional
Instructions
Spinach Dough
- In a large stock pot, heat enough water and add the spinach leaves along with some salt. Allow them to blanch for 5-6 minutes. Drain the hot water from the spinach leaves and run them under cold tap water.
- Grind the spinach leaves along with ginger and make a fine puree. This puree approximately came up to ¾ Cup. Add very little water if required. **In case you are not making it for kids, you can include green chillies to grind along with the spinach leaves.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the spinach puree, wheat flour, salt, cumin powder and mango powder and start kneading. Add a little more water as you knead until you achieve soft pliable dough. Splash the oil onto your hands and the remaining on the dough and knead until we have a clean bowl. Set the dough aside for 20 Minutes or so.
Potato Filling Mixture
- Prepare the Potato filling mixture by mashing the cooked potatoes along with the rest of the ingredients. Check for seasoning and add more if needed.
How to make Stuffed Aloo Paratha?
- Divide the dough into 10 equal portions. Pick one portion of dough at a time, dust some flour and spread them with the roller into thin disk of 5cm or so. Spread ½ a teaspoon of oil in the middle of the rolled dough, place the potato mixture right in the middle leaving space in the edges to seal.
- Starting right from the edge, begin pleating and seal the filling mixture with the dough. Dust some flour and roll the dough gently, ensuring the filling doesn't come out.
- Heat a non-stick pan / tava to a high temperature. Place the rolled Aloo Palak paratha on the tava and cook for a 1-1.5 minutes or so. When the base is cooked, flip the paratha and cook again.
- Spread a teaspoon of oil on part cooked paratha. Flip again and you will find the paratha cooked nicely with a couple of charred/black spots. Spread some more oil and you will find the paratha puffs up really well.
- You may even use spatula's to press the edges of the dough, just to ensure they cook well.
- Remove the cooked paratha's from the flame into a casserole and keep them covered.
- Repeat the process with the rest of the Aloo Palak Paratha.
- Once all the Aloo Palak Paratha are piled in the casserole, serve them hot with Onion Salad, Raita or plain yogurt and some pickle.
Margaret Gallagher says
One of my favourites accompaniments
Usually just have garlic - certainly a RECIPE I'LL enjoy
torviewtoronto says
looks fabulous delicious combination of flavours