Paneer Paratha

Paneer Paratha

              Stuffed paneer paratha with variety of spices. It is an perfect punjabi style paratha with grated spicy cottage cheese .very tasty and softy paratha. Serve this for your kids lunch box.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

For the stuffing:

• Paneer - 200 grams (grated or crushed)
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Onion - 1 (Very finely chopped)
• Green chiilies - 2 (Chopped)
• Ginger/garlec paste - 1/4 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
• Hing - a pinch
• Coriander leaves - few (Chopped) 
• Salt - as needed
• Butter or ghee - as needed

Method:

How to make paratha dough:

• In a large bowl add the wheat flour , salt, ghee and kneed the flour with hot water to prepare a soft and smooth dough.

• Grease your hands with little ghee and kneed the dough well with the heel of your hands. Apply oil on top and, rest it for 15mins.

• Our paratha dough is ready.

Paneer stuffing:

• Grate the paneer and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a pan. add cumin seeds and all the above ingredients in stuffing except paneer and saute it for 5 to 6mins. Switch off the flame and rest it down to cool.(Don't want to saute the paneer with masala)  

• Atlast, add the grated paneer , mix well and keep aside.

How to make sookhi dal paratha:

• Now take tha paratha dough, make equal small lemon size balls.

• Take a wheat ball and press it equally like poori size and keep a tbsp of stuffing on it , bring the edges or corners together and seal it.

• Press it and roll out the dough with stuffing into a circle of approximately 6-7 diameter dusting wheat flour. paneer should appear on top.

• Heat a tawa well, place the rolled out dough on it .when you see the bubbles forming on top. apply a tsp of butter and flip it over to the other side of the paratha and cook both sides well until golden brown spots appear.

• Repeat the process for rest of the dough to make paneer paratha's.

• Serve the hot paratha with butter floating on top with raitha or pickle.

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