Palak Paratha | How to make palak paratha? | Paratha Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 10-12 parathas
 
Soft, green, tasty, delicious and kid friendly palak paratha
Ingredients
  • 2 Cups or 200-250 Gm palak/spinach
  • 2 Cups whole wheat flour/atta
  • ½ Tsp powdered black pepper
  • ¼ Tsp crushed carom seeds/om kaalu/ajwain or ½ Tsp crushed jeera
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ Tsp sugar
  • 2 Tsp oil
  • 1 Tbsp yogurt
  • Water to knead into a dough
Method
  1. Blanch spinach leaves in hot water for a minute
  2. Drain wilted spinach leaves from the hot water and run it under cold water to stop further cooking
  3. Grind spinach leaves into a purée and keep aside
  4. Take whole wheat flour in a bowl
  5. Sprinkle salt, crushed black pepper and jeera or ajwain
  6. Add a Tsp of oil and rub all the ingredients together
  7. Now add the spinach purée into whole wheat flour mixture
  8. Spoon in a little yogurt
  9. Start mixing all the ingredients together
  10. The dough starts coming together
  11. Just add a few drops of water to finish the dough
  12. Finally knead with a teaspoon of oil into a soft dough . Cover and set it aside
  13. To make parathas, pinch small balls off the dough
  14. Dust the working surface with flour, roll out a ball of dough into a small circle
  15. Add a few drops of oil. Fold a circle into a half and again to form a triangle
  16. Roll out into a paratha roughly keeping the triangle shape
  17. To roast the paratha, put it on a heated tawa or pan or skillet
  18. Apply oil on both sides and roast till golden. Repeat for remaining parathas.
  19. Serve them immediately or pack for lunch box
Notes
Optionally chopped/grated garlic can be added while kneading dough

Apply ghee before serving

Add crushed jeera if you want

Resting dough for sometime makes softer parathas

Dough can be made previous day and rested in refrigerator
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/palak-paratha/