Pudina Paratha

This recipe can make 10 parathas.

Ingredients:

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• Wheat flour - 1 heaped laddle for 1 paratha(so here 10 laddles)
• Mint leaves - 5 bunches
• Salt - to taste
• Red chilli Powder - 1 tsp
• Ajwain/carom seeds - 1 tsp
• Oil -
• Butter -
• Chat Masala powder - 1 to 2 tsp

Method:

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Dough:

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• Wash mint leaves well and separate the leaves.
• Chop the leaves of 3 bunches finely.
• Add the chopped leaves,red chilli powder,ajwain,salt,1 tsp of oil to the wheat flour and add warm water.(Quantity of water:55% of the wheat flour).Knead into a soft dough.
• Cover with a moist cloth and set aside for half an hour.

Powder:

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• Pat dry rest of the mint leaves.
• Heat a kadai and lightly roast the dried mint leaves.
• Set aside to cool and grind to a fine powder.
• Mix chat masala powder to the ground mint powder and mix well.Set aside.

Paratha:

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• Make round balls from the dough each of diameter,say 3cm.

• Just press it between your palms and rub both the sides on wheat flour .
• Spread into a roti of diameter say 9 cm.

• Smear little oil /butter evenly across the roti.

• Roll it into a fan and coil it like a snail as shown.

• Just press it again between your palms,rub on wheat flour and spread again into a roti.

• The above process is done for getting the layers in the paratha.
• Repeat the process for each of the ball and start making parathas with the spreads that were rolled initially.

• Heat a tava/skillet and put the roti.When dots appear,flip it over .Spread little oil on both sides and cook on both sides till it gets brown patches.Cut into two halves if you wish.
• Sprinkle the powder(mint+chat masala) on hot parathas.
• Just before serving crush the parathas between your palms to open up the layers.
• Serve hot with curd and pickle.

Yummy Parathas are ready with a mint flavour.