Paneer Paratha

Paneer Paratha - good saturday night dinner option

Quantity - 5/6 regular size parathas

Ingredients :

Wheat flour - 3 cups
Water - to knead the flour
Paneer - 200 gms (Nanak variety)
Green chillies - 3/4 as per spice finely chopped
Ginger - 1 inch very finely grated
Cumin powder - 1 tbsp
Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
Haldi - a pinch
Ajwain - Finely crushed 1 tbsp
Fennel seeds - Finely crushed- 1 tbsp
Coriander - fresh and finely chopper - 5/6 strands
Black pepper - finely crushed 1 tbsp
Amchur - 2 pinches (optional)
Salt to taste
Oil - to knead
Home made ghee - to roast

Procedure:

1. Start making the dough for paratha by kneading the wheat flour . Knead into a semi soft dough and then add 1 tsp of oil and let it rest for half hr
2. To make the filling , grate the paneer using a grater . Use the bigger holes of the grater .
3. Now to this grated paneer add all the remaining ingredients - green chillies chopped finely , ginger grated finely , red chilli powder , cumin powder , black pepper + ajwain + fennel crushed , corainder leaves finely chopped , salt and mix everything very nicely . Try to make a semi doug out of this mixture
4. Now take a regular ball of wheat dough like we take to make roti and roll into a small circle . Fill it with the paneer mixture , close it like a modak and continue to roll into a regular roti .
5. Heat a tawa and roast the paratha nicely from both sides using generous amounts of ghee and till you get a nice brownish yellow color .

Serve hot with boondi raita / cucumber raita /onion tomato raita !

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