Whole Wheat Spinach Paneer Lifafa Paratha Recipe
Total Time: 65 minutes
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients:
- salt
- wheat flour
- corn flour
- green chillies
- ghee
- paneer
- chaat masala powder
- cumin powder (jeera) ( ground)
- onion
- cumin seeds (jeera)
- ghee the parathas
- spinach leaves (palak)
- sunflower oil
Instructions:
- To begin making the Whole Wheat Spinach Paneer Lifafa Paratha Recipe, in a mixing bowl add the whole wheat flour, salt, 1 tablespoon melted ghee and mix
- Next add water little by little and start kneading the dough
- If you are looking for softer texture add only milk to knead the dough and no water
- Knead till you get soft, smooth dough
- Cover and let the paratha dough rest for 30 minutes
- While the lifafa paratha dough is resting we can make the stuffing
- Heat oil in a pan
- To hot oil add cumin seeds and wait till they turn slight brown
- Add onions and green chilies and saut? till onions turn soft
- Add finely chopped spinach and cook until spinach looses all it?s moisture
- Add salt to taste
- Once spinach is completely dry, turn off heat and keep it aside to cool down
- Add roasted cumin powder, chaat masala to grated paneer
- Add cooked spinach mix and mix them all together
- This paratha stuffing mixture should be dry
- If you find any liquid in it, squeeze it out
- Divide them into equal sized balls
- In a small bowl, combine the corn flour along with water to make a thick paste
- This will be used for sealing the edges
- Knead the paratha dough once more and divide them into equal sized balls (lemon sized)
- Roll it thin about 10 inch
- Place it on hot griddle/tawa and cook for 10 seconds on each sides, without oil
- Dont over cook it
- Take it out of tawa
- Repeat this for rest of the dough
- Now place half cooked rotis on a flat surface
- Place a small portion of spinach paneer stuffing in the center
- Spread the stuffing all over leaving out the edges
- Apply corn flour paste on the edges of the roti
- Fold the 2 opposite corners of the roti over the stuffing
- Now fold the remaining 2 edges sealing the filling well
- This will look like a folded envelope
- Place the stuffed lifafa spinach paneer paratha over hot tawa, drizzle oil or ghee and cook on both sides until they turn brown on both sides
- Serve the Whole Wheat Spinach Paneer Lifafa Paratha immediately with some yogurt and pickle for breakfast or even a weeknight dinner