Saturday, February 4, 2012

PALAK CHAPPATHI (SPINACH ROTI)


PALAK  CHAPPATHI (SPINACH  ROTI)
A simple and tasty way of adding healthful spinach or palak in your diet by adding  palak leaves into the wheat dough.Palak/Spinach Green Chappathis taste good and it is very delicious. These chappathi looks green. Spinach is known as a rich source of iron.
   
Chapathi Ingredients:
Wheat flour – 3 cups
Water – 1 ½ cup  (enough to mix the dough)
Salt – to taste
Oil – 2 tsp(optional)
Yield:  12 - 14 Pieces
Stuffing Ingredients:
2 Bunch of Spinach (Palak) finely chopped
Green chilies – 4-5
Cumin Seeds – 1tsp
Oil – 2tsps
Coriander Powder – 1tsps
Gram masala Powder – 1tsps
Salt – 1  taps
turmeric powder – ½tsp
Make a smooth dough



















Method:
Boil the Spinach with little water.
cool and grind with green chilies to smooth paste
Heat the pan; add oil to it when the oil heat up adds cumin seeds when it stops the pops.
Pour the paste to the oil add Coriander powder, Gram malasa powder, Turmeric powder, and salt.
Now add to the cooked Spinach to the flour.
Allow it to cool
Gently combine ground palak and kneed to smooth dough. If you need water just sprinkle.
Spinach is watery. You need not add water to dough.Try not to add too much of water, if you add too much of water the flour will be sticky. The dough must not stick to the bowl. Now add oil and mix well.
Making of Chappathi:
Make round balls and roll out into thin chappathis using little wheat flour for dusting.
Heat the Tawa and put the Spinach chappathi on the top of that.When it puffs up turn over the other side and cook till brown specks are formed both sides.

3 comments:

  1. Healthy and yummy parathas, thank you for linking with Any One Can Cook :)

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  2. Sweetie, I think you have linked this recipe with healthy Morsels so I would really appreciate if you could please give a link to the event in this post. Also whenever you link your recipe,please link it your post,not to your home page. Looking forward to more healthy and yummy recipes from you for Healthy Morsels :)

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