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Stuffed Parathas

Amma's notebook · Breakfast, snacks & starters, page 10

Wheat parathas stuffed with potato, cauliflower, radish or paneer.

Stuffed Parathas, in Amma's handwriting
Amma's original. Tap to open full size.

Method

  1. Make a dough and keep aside.
  2. Boil the aloo, or grate the other veggies. Squeeze the water out of the mooli.
  3. Add salt, hari mirchi, kothmir and crushed dhania and make balls of filling.
  4. Take small portions of dough, roll out or shape into a katori (cup), fill with a veg ball and roll out again into a roti.
  5. Seko (cook on the tawa), applying ghee or oil as needed.

Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.

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