Ok, long story short. I have been super busy, and when I was not busy, been super lazy all of last month. That does not mean that I did not cook anything. I cooked basic food mostly Rice, dal and sabzi on most days. And on other days, used meals from the freezer, and on my laziest days, ordered a takeaway.
I'm feeling like myself for the past few days and I made Paneer Paratha (Flat bread stuffed with cottage cheese).
Let's get started.
Ingredients:
For the stuffing:
Grated Paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese) - 150 grams
Green Chilies - 1 (finely sliced)
Onion - 1 small (finely diced)
Garlic - 1 pod (minced)
Salt - as per taste
Garam Masala - 1 teaspoon
pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon
coriander leaves - 2 teaspoon
For the dough:
Wheat Flour - 2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 teaspoon
Method:
For the dough, knead 2 cup of wheat flour with one cup of water and make a stiff dough. Depending on your flour, it may require a little less or a little more water. So add water a little by little.
Let it rest for about 15 - 20 minutes.
Mix all the ingredients for the stuffing.
Take a medium size ball dough and flatten it. Put a large spoon full of the stuffing and close it, into a ball and flatten it.
Dust the surface with some dough and roll out the paratha. Don't roll out the paratha too thin.
Heat a pan, cook paratha on either side for about 2 minutes on each side. Keep turning it every 45 seconds or so. Add ghee on both sides of the paratha.
And that's it.
Enjoy with some pickle and yogurt.
Thanks for reading.
I cook every day. Well, almost every day. And there are days where I cook multiple recipes. Having said that, I am not an authentic or professional chef. Many of my recipes are experiments as I try to adapt and use the ingredients I already have.
My mantra is you should cook food just the way you like it. I don’t mean any disrespect to traditional methods of cooking or any cultures where the cuisine originates from. But I merely try to cook it with what I have and what is available to me and sometimes, I add ingredients that I want to use up.
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