Sookhi Dal Paratha

Sookhi Dal Paratha

              Stuffed sookhi dal paratha with variety of spices. It is an perfect rajasthani delicacy.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:

• Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
• 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
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
• Hing - a pinch
• Coriander leaves - few (Chopped) 
• Salt - as needed
• Butter - 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. rest it for 15mins.

• Our paratha dough is ready.

Sookhi dal stuffing:

• Pressure cook the moong dal for 2 whistle by adding little water and 1 tsp ghee.

• After when dal get pressure cooked it will look like soaked the dal in water for 4 hrs.

• Heat oil in a pan. add cumin seeds and all the above ingredients in stuffing except dal and saute it for 5 to 6mins.

• Atlast, add the cooked dal and saute for 2mins and keep aside.

• You can eat this as sookhi dal sundal as evening snack.

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. dal should appear on top like balls like below image.

• 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 sookhi dal paratha's.

• Serve the hot paratha with butter floating on top with crunchy kaara boondi on top of raitha.

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