I love stuffed Parathas. One of my favorite is cheese stuffed paratha. It makes a simply delicious breakfast dish or a quick weeknight dinner. It is easy to prepare with whole wheat flour & spiced cheese stuffing. It simply combines good with pickle or curd. Try this kids..friendly easy to pack lunch dish at home and enjoy.
Ingredients
To make dough:
Whole wheat flour / atta- 2 cups
Sugar - ½ tsp
Salt - as needed
Milk - ¼ cup
Oil - 2 tsp
Water - as required to make dough
To make stuffing:
Cheese / paneer grated - 1 cup
Pepper pwd - ½ tsp
Red chilly pwd - ¼ tsp
Green chilly - 1
Cumin pwd - ¼ tsp
Amchur pwd - ¼ tsp
Lemon juice - few drops
Fresh coriander leaves
Oil /butter to fry
Salt to taste
Instructions
1.
To Make dough:
2.
Take whole wheat flour/atta in a wide bowl
3.
Add salt and ½ tsp sugar and combine
4.
Sprinkle ¼ cup of milk and 2 tsp of oil
5.
Mix well
6.
Apply oil to the surface of the dough and keep it covered for ½ an hour
7.
Lets prepare the cheese stuffing
8.
Grate paneer / Indian cottage cheese or any other cheese to fine shreds
9.
Add it to bowl
10.
Add salt, pepper pwd, red chilly pwd, green chilly chopped, cumin pwd, amchur pwd, lemon juice and finely sliced coriander leaves
11.
Mix well
12.
Now divide the dough to equal sized balls
13.
Dust it with flour and roll each ball into a small round
14.
Stuff a spoonful of cheese mixture in the round
15.
Seal all the edges together and make it to small patties
16.
Now dust it with flour again and roll these back again into sizeable discs
17.
Roll gently and take care the stuffing does not come out of the paratha
18.
Heat the tawa and drizzle oil/butter to it
19.
Place the rolled paratha on it
20.
Once it starts getting half done from the bottom side, flip it over and rub oil/butter on the sides
21.
Keep pressing both the sides on the tawa so that the paratha cooks evenly
22.
Once it turns golden brown and crisp, remove from flame
23.
Serve hot cheese paratha with pickle or yoghurt