Stuffed Matar Paratha | Fresh Peas Paratha
a delicious flatbread filled with spicy mixture of green peas and spices
Servings 12 parathas
Ingredients
- 2 cups of wholewheat flour
- 1 tbsp carom seeds
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp oil
For stuffing
- 2 cups fresh peas
- 3 green chillies
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 cup fresh coriander leaves, chopped
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp cumin coriander powder
- ½ tsp garam masala
- salt to taste
- Ghee forcooking the pararthas
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl or large plate, add wholewheat flour, carom seeds and salt.
- Add water gradually and knead to make a soft, stiff dough. Add a tsp of oil and knead well. Keep this aside for 10 minutes.
- For the stuffing, firstly steam the fresh peas and keep aside.
- Make a paste of green chillies, ginger, garlic and keep aside.
- Mash the cooked peas well.
- To the mashed peas, add the chilly, ginger and garlic paste, salt, cumin coriander powder and garam masala. Mix well. This is the stuffing for the paratha.
- Now take a small dough ball and flatten it using your fingers.
- Place around 2 tbsp of stuffing in the centre and seal it well. Roll this into a paratha.
- Place the paratha on a hot pan.
- Drizzle some ghee and cook the paratha on both sides until it turns golden in colour.
- Likewise, make the remaining parathas.
- Serve Matar Parathas with curds and pickle.