We love parathas. I wanted to try something different this time. I buy zucchinis during every shopping spree. I try to include it in different dishes. It looked perfect for paratha stuffing. A small potato helps in binding the stuffing. I also added some roasted peanuts for a nice crunch. The parathas came out so great. The parathas had a very different taste.
Ingredients:
2 cups wheat flour
Oil/ghee
1/2 cup peanuts roasted
1 cup grated zucchini
A small boiled and peeled potato (optional)
1 tea spn kasuri methi
A pinch turmeric
1 tea spn red chilli powder
Method:
Make a soft dough with wheat flour adding salt, water and little oil. Knead very well for few minutes. Keep it aside for 30mins.
Powder the peanuts. In a bowl, mix peanut powder, mashed potato, grated zucchini, kasuri methi, turmeric, chilli powder, salt. Mix them well.
Take a ball of the wheat dough, roll into a circle. Take a ball of stuffing, stuff in the circle. Roll into paratha. Roast from both sides. Apply ghee if needed.
Serve hot with yogurt topped with a little chilli powder and chaat masala.
Serves : 2-3
Preparation time : 40mins
Pictorial:
What an unusual combo! I like it:)
I love parathas too.
So .. do u think almond meal will work to replace peanuts?
I think almonds would work too. Let me know if you try it.
my family loves parathas too.. you have included all my fav ingredients.. surely a hit..
Let me know if you try it
Looks delicious. I like how you have stepwise pictures. Your parathas look so much like mine…less dough and more stuffing. What’s that on the skewer?
Glad to know someone likes step wise pictures. Hariyali chicken. Recipe here.
Very interesting combination. Definitely going to try this one out.
By the way, Happy Independence Day to you and your readers.
Thanks Veena. Wish you the same
Hi yr recepie looks really great I will try it next week also I like to give some of my recipe if u interested
Thanks Ranju for offering to send recipes. Sorry, at this point, I post only my mom’s and my recipes here
I love all ur receipes and ur presentation is very good. i will try this parathas this week. looks yummy.
Really an unusual stuffing, will try this weekend.
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Your elaboration is too good. Novices like me can become good cooks. Keep up the good work
I really liked yr roti recipe an also yr barfi I will try next week hope it will be good as yours
I made it just now. The taste is very rustic, very pleasing, a far cry from the run-of-the-mill aloo paratha, paneer paratha and their ilk.
One suggestion though. Maybe good to sprinkle the salt on the zucchini and leave to stand for 10 min, squeeze out the water and so that you don;t lose this water which has some of the nutrients, add it to the aata while kneading.
If not the mixture (at least for me it did) becomes gooey and when I tried to roll out the P’s, the mix gives grief.
One other thing I did which may be helpful to others here, I used potato flakes. I had added a tbs of water to make the potato mash (manufacturer’s instructions was use 75% of the flakes). Maybe next time I will not add the water but leave the flakes dry and the zucchini will moisten it.
Overall extremely happy paratha!
I have been making parathas a lot at home lately. Mainly so my kids eat vegetables. This is a good idea to add Zucchini as well.
I think indianfoodcourt blog has copied this recipe and put on her blog.