Palak Paratha || Spinach paratha || How to make spinach paratha with step-by-step photos and video
Palak Paratha is a delicious and healthy flatbread made from mildly spiced whole wheat flour combined with spinach. Paratha or stuffed bread is a very common part of Pakistani/Indian cuisine. Palak Paratha is a very popular variant that is often cooked for breakfast.
It is a quick and easy dish to prepare and uses simple ingredients which are easily available throughout the world all around the year
Spinach paratha is generally served with cold refreshing raita and also goes well with pickles and hot tea
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Spinach is well known for its nutritional qualities and is rich in iron content, It is also an excellent source of Vitamins K, A
Manganese and many other minerals
Spinach is a very tasteful veggie and when we stuff/fill in the paratha, pakora, and any type of meat their taste becomes so enhanced to include this veggie, also can be cooked and served at sehri time with lassi, a very healthy meal especially when is cooked with olive oil and red wheat flour instead of maida or ghee/butter, quick and easy recipe let's begin
Take a large bowl to sift the flour then put all ingredients mixed together. Now start kneading the soft dough by adding water little by little then add 2 tbsp oil and knead again
Knead to the smooth dough wrap it with cling wrap and leave it for resting around 15 minutes
Knead to the smooth dough wrap it with cling wrap and leave it for resting around 15 minutes
Divide the dough into equal portions, make smooth balls, and flatten them between your palms, Before you start the rolling, Heat the Tawa on medium flame
Take one flattened ball at a time, dust it into dry flour start rolling, Roll into 4 diameters, and keep the edges thinner than the center
Take one flattened ball at a time, dust it into dry flour start rolling, Roll into 4 diameters, and keep the edges thinner than the center
Now Apply oil/ghee over spinach paratha
sprinkle some flour dust over it fold making a semicircle Apply oil/ghee and flour, and fold to another step making a strip. Apply ghee/oil and flour and then roll from one point to another. Prepare all spinach paratha balls (paira) similarly.
Roll out all parathas. place paratha into the hot pan/Tawa without adding ghee, and turn side after 2 seconds.
Dab a little amount of ghee/oil press with a spatula and revert after 2 seconds. Dab ghee again, press, and cook. Keep reverting until cooked
Dab a little amount of ghee/oil press with a spatula and revert after 2 seconds. Dab ghee again, press, and cook. Keep reverting until cooked
Palak Paratha is a delicious and healthy flatbread made from mildly spiced whole wheat flour combined with spinach.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups, red wheat flour
- 1 cup, spinach finely chopped and washed
- 1 tbsp, green chilies chopped
- ½ tsp, red chili powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp, onion finely chopped
- 1 cup, olive oil you can use butter/ghee
- 1/3 tsp, white cumin seeds
How to make the Palak Paratha:
- Take a large bowl to sift the flour then add spinach, onion, green chilies, red chili powder, salt cumin seeds mix together
- Now start kneading the soft dough by adding water little by little then add 2 tbsp oil and knead again
- Knead to the smooth dough wrap it with cling wrap and leave it for resting around 15 minutes
- Divide the dough into equal portions, make smooth balls, and flatten them between your palms
- Before you start the rolling, Heat the Tawa on medium flame
- Take one flattened ball at a time, dust it with dry flour start rolling
- Roll into 4 diameters, and keep the edges thinner than the center
- Now Apply oil/ghee over the spinach
- Sprinkle some flour dust over it and fold making a semicircle
- Apply oil/ghee and flour, and fold to another step making a strip. Apply ghee/oil and flour and then roll from one point to another.
- Prepare all spinach paratha balls (paira) similarly.
- Roll out all parathas. Place paratha into the hot pan/Tawa without adding ghee, turn side after 2 seconds.
- Dab a little amount of ghee/oil press with a spatula and revert after 2 seconds.
- Dab ghee again, press, and cook. Keep reverting until cooked
- Palak Paratha is ready to serve hot with raita and sauce
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