Dhal Paratha

Dhal Paratha

Ingredients:

For dough:

Wheat flour  -11/2 cup
warm water  -3/4 cup approx
salt                -to taste
oil                 -as needed

For stuffing:

Yellow moong Dhal-1/2 cup
water                        -3/4 cup
chilli powder            -1/4 tsp
hing/asafetida           -1/8 tsp
amchur powder         -1/8 tsp
cumin seeds              -1/2 tsp
salt                            -to taste
oil                             -2 tsp
cilantro                     -finely chopped

Method:

 For dough :

• Knead wheat flour with desired salt by adding warm water into a soft dough.
• Coat the dough with a tsp of oil and cover it with a damp cloth for 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes make it into equal sized balls

For stuffing:

•  Soak dhal in water for atleast 2 hours.
• Cook dhal in 3/4 cup of water in a covered pan. Once it gets cooked mash it with a spatula

• Add chilli powder, hing, amchur powder, cumin seeds, cilantro, salt to  it and mix well.

• Stuff is ready

For paratha:

Dust the ball in little flour.

• Roll it  into a small circle.
• Keep a scoop of dhal stuffing to it and fold carefully into a ball. 

• Dust the ball again and roll it into a thin circle.(do not press so hard give a gentle press rolling evenly so that stuffing does not come out)

• Heat tawa and Put the paratha over it.

• Flip it when the lower end gets mild brown spots.

• Butter/oil the top and wait for a few seconds.
• Flip again and cook until paratha is well done butter on the top.
• Flip again for the other side to get cooked

• Serve the Dhal Paratha with raitha/plain yogurt

Serves 2-4