Healthy Food Recipes - Kambu/ Pearl Millet / Bajra Masala Paratha!
Posted on: 12/Jan/2015 12:21:43 PM
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
