Onion Stuffed Parathas

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Onion Stuffed Parathas

Explore with Sanchayita is here with a detailed recipe for making 4 Onion Stuffed Parathas as your breakfast or snack. 

Ingredients: 

• Flour (Maida)
• Salt (Namak)
• Sugar (Chini)
• Ghee 
• Vegetable oil (Any refined oil of your choice like soyabean oil/ sunflower oil/ rice bran oil etc)
• Onion (Pyaz)
• Green Chilli
• Dry Red Chilli Powder or Flakes
• Ginger (Adrak)
• Cumin Powder (Jeera Powder)
• Coriander Powder (Dhaniya Powder)
• Carom Seeds (Ajwain)
• Black Cumin or Nigella Seeds (Kalonji or Kala Jeera)
• Asafoetida (Hing)

Recipe:

There are four main steps for achieving this tasty and easy recipe.

1. Dough Preparation
2. Onion Stuffing Preparation
3. Making the final parathas (Stuffing the dough, rolling it out and frying)
4. Enjoying with family and friends

Step 1: Dough Preparation

• Take a bowl and pour 2 cups of flour, 2 tablespoon of vegetable oil or ghee, a pinch of sugar, and 2 pinches of salt with half a cup water.
• Mix all these for preparing a soft and moist dough.
• Cover the prepared dough and keep it aside for 5-10 minutes for better moistening.

Step 2: Stuffing Preparation

• Take a frying pan and heat it on the gas oven or induction cooktop.
• Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil when the pan gets slightly heated.
• Pour a pinch of Carom Seeds (Ajwain), a pinch of Black Cumin (Kala jeera), and a pinch of Asafoetida (Hing) on the pan.
• When the Carom seeds start crackling in the pan, then add 2 chopped onions and 3-5 grams of chopped ginger to the pan.
• Mix chilli powder/flakes, cumin powder, and coriander powder in a separate bowl. Take 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture and add it to the frying pan.
• Add 1 chopped green chili to the frying stuffing. 
• Stir the mixture continuously and fry till it gets golden brown.
• Take the mixture out of the pan and keep it separate for cooling.

Now your stuffing is ready.

Step 3:  Making the Final Parathas

• Divide the prepared dough into 4 parts and spread them like bowls using slight flour or oil for giving it a better shape.
• Fill 1 teaspoon of stuffing in each bowl-shaped dough part.
• Close each of the stuffed dough bowls and shape them like a closed sphere.
• Then spread each stuffed dough sphere using a roti maker or rolling board to give them the shape of parathas.
• Now take a frying pan, pour 1 tablespoon of ghee or vegetable oil, and heat it.
• After the oil gets heated in the pan, place each paratha on it one by one, and fry both sides till it gets golden brown.
• Then take each paratha out of the pan and place it on your plate.

Your hot and spicy onion stuffed parathas are ready. You can enjoy these with a sauce of your choice or a cup of tea.