MATAR PARATHA

Name: MATAR PARATHA
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Cup Wheat flour; 1 tbsp oil; Salt to taste; Water to make the dough

Matar Paratha is a classic Punjabi paratha with green peas. It is an unleavened flatbread with a green pea mixture. You will forget all parathas once you try these and it will make you fall in love with green peas even more. Make sure to used boiled green peas and mash them instantly. The besan gives a binding to the mixture. The lovely tadka of jeera and saunf works like a dream! Do try this paratha recipe and let us know how you like it.

Preparation Time
10 minutes

Soaking Time
Nil

Cooking Time
10 minutes

Makes
4

INGREDIENTS

For the Paratha Dough

1 Cup Wheat flour

1 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

Water to make the dough

For the filling

1 Cup Boiled Green Peas

¼ tsp cumin seeds

½ tsp Garam Masalar

¼ tsp kasturi methi

¼ tsp Fennel Seeds

¼ tsp ginger chilly paste

¼ tsp hing

1 tsp oil

½ tsp besan

1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Salt to taste

To serve

Curds

Achaar

METHOD

For the filling

In a bowl, with a potato masher, mash boiled green peas.

In a pan, heat oil.

Add in hing, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, ginger chilly paste, kasturi methi and Besan. Saute well for ½ a minute.

Add in the mashed green peas, salt, garam masala and coriander leaves.

Mix well and set aside to cool down the filling.

How to proceed

Make a dough and mix well all the ingredients. Make 4 round balls of the dough.

With a help of a little flour roll the dough and make a small circle. Place ¼ of the filling in the centre. Close the sides of the dough and make a round again.

With a help of a little flour roll out the parathas.

Put some oil on the tava and cook the parathas on both sides.

Serve hot with curds and achaar.

MATAR PARATHA

INGREDIENTS

For the Paratha Dough

For the filling

To serve

METHOD

For the filling

How to proceed

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