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Healthy Food Recipes - Kambu/ Pearl Millet / Bajra Masala Paratha!

Updated: 12/Jan/2015 12:21:43 PM

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Healthy Food Recipes - Kambu/ Pearl Millet / Bajra Masala Paratha!

Ingredients:

Kambu/ Bajra/ Pearl Millet Flour � 2 cup
Wheat Flour � 1 cup
Palak (Spinach) � 1 cup (finely chopped)
Green Chilli � 1 nos (Finely chopped)
(Or)
Sambar Powder (Red Chilli Powder) � � spoon
Turmeric Powder � � spoon
Ginger � � inch long (minced)
Cumin Seeds � � spoon
Coriander leaves � very few (finely chopped)
Salt � to taste
Oil � 10 spoons

Method:

Wash palak keerai thoroughly in tap water and also in water with a pinch of salt.
Finely chop the palak and keep aside.

Take a mixing bowl and add pearl millet flour, wheat flour, Palak, coriander leaves, turmeric powder, minced ginger, sambar powder, salt, cumin seeds and mix well.

Now add 5 spoons of oil on top it and blend well.
Then add required water and prepare the dough similar to the chapatti dough preparation.
Make the dough little bit tighter, since in a while the dough will become softer due to the water content in the palak keerai.
Leave the dough aside for about half an hour.
Then make it as a small balls and spread each ball like chapatti.

Then heat a tawa and add the rolled Paratha in it and cook one side.
Turn other side and add some oil and cook it. Remove the cooked Paratha from tawa. Repeat the same for the remaining Paratha dough.

The delicious Pearl Millet/ Bajra/ Kambu Paratha is ready to serve hot!

Note:

While preparing either Chapatti or Paratha, always use the tawa in high flame, so that chapatti or Paratha will become very soft.
You can consume Kambu Paratha with either Curd salad or onion chutney or tomato chutney!
Pearl millet known as Kambu in Tamil, Bajra in Hindi,
It is very rich in Protein, Fibre, Calcium, Iron and Magnesium.
It has Iron that is 8 times of Rice,
It helps to increase the secretion of Milk for lactating mothers.
It helps to reduce breast cancer risk for Pre-menopausal women.

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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath