Ingredients:
• For Stuffing:
• Potatoes – 3-4 (medium-sized, boiled and mashed)
• Green chillies – 3-4 (finely chopped)
• Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/3 tsp
• Garam Masala – 1 tsp
• Paprika powder – 1/2 tsp
• Salt as per taste
• Ghee or Butter – 3 tbsps
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
• Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp (finely chopped) or Mint leaves (finely chopped)
• For Dough:
• Wheat Flour – 1 cup
• Maida or all purpose flour – 1 cup
• Ghee – 1/2 tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Warm Water to make dough
Method:
- Take a bowl. Add wheat flour, maida, salt and melted ghee and make a dough with warm water.
- Keep kneading dough for 15 minutes until soft. Cover it and let it stand for half an hour.
- Take potatoes (mashed) and add all powder masalas and salt and mix it.
- Heat a pan on a medium flame. Add the green chillies and ginger-garlic paste and saute it.
- Then add potato mixture and stir for 2 minutes. Check the salt and remove from flame.
- After it cools down, add lemon juice, finely chopped coriander leaves or mint leaves.
- Then make small lemon-sized balls out of the potato mixture keep it aside.
- To make paratas:
- Divide the dough into medium-sized balls. Flatten each ball, stuff with potato balls and seal it properly.
- Then roll it out using a little maida flour into paratas.
- Heat a griddle and cook these paratas until golden brown in colour on both the sides.
- Serve hot with curds.
Recipe courtesy of Naganaresh