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Methi paratha recipe | Methi ka paratha | How to make methi paratha
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Course: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Servings: 3 Persons
Methi paratha recipe aka methi ka paratha is a healthy, delicious and flavoured recipe of paratha. It is an Indian flat bread recipe prepared with whole wheat flour, chopped fenugreek leaves (Methi leaves) and some spices. It is immensely popular in northern India and is prepared in almost every house during winter. This healthy paratha recipe can be consumed in breakfast, brunch, lunch and even in dinner. In fact, methi paratha could be a perfect lunch box recipe for your kids with some yogurt and salad.
Methi recipes
Health benefits of Methi Leaves
How to cut and clean Methi Leaves?
Tips to prepare perfect Methi ka paratha
How to make methi paratha?
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Serving Instruction
Methi paratha recipe | Methi ka paratha | How to make methi paratha
Author: Rumki Paul https://www.facebook.com/rumkisgoldenspoonhttps://www.instagram.com/rumkis.golden.spoon/https://www.pinterest.com/Rumkisgoldenspoon/https://twitter.com/RumkiSpoon
Course: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Preparation Time:
Cooking time:
Total time:
Servings: 3 Persons
Methi paratha recipe aka methi ka paratha is a healthy, delicious and flavoured recipe of paratha. It is an Indian flat bread recipe prepared with whole wheat flour, chopped fenugreek leaves (Methi leaves) and some spices. It is immensely popular in northern India and is prepared in almost every house during winter. This healthy paratha recipe can be consumed in breakfast, brunch, lunch and even in dinner. In fact, methi paratha could be a perfect lunch box recipe for your kids with some yogurt and salad.
Recipe for methi ka paratha can be prepared in different ways using different combination of ingredients and methods, especially during winter when fresh methi leaves are easily available in the market. But now a days, in many cities in India, methi leaves are available throughout the year. The places where methi leaves are not easily available all the time, people even substitute fenugreek leaves with dried fenugreek leaves aka kasuri methi.
Many people prepare the methi paratha recipe by using spicy methi leaves mixture as stuffing into the paratha and many prepare it by directly adding chopped methi leaves aka fenugreek leaves into the paratha dough mixture.
To keep the methi paratha recipe simple and easy, I have not used stuffing for the recipe. I have chopped the fenugreek leaves and directly added it into the wheat flour mixture, kneaded it and rolled out the parathas.
I always look forward to preparing different types of vegetarian breakfast recipes easy for my family. This drags me to prepare various healthy paratha recipes and methi ka paratha is one of them. Usually, for any homemaker or mom, the work schedule is very tight during mornings due to all household works. So, I always try to keep my breakfast recipe and lunchbox recipe simple for time management.
I frequently prepare this methi paratha recipe for my husband’s office lunch box and pack it sometimes with pickle or yogurt, salad or any simple dal recipe. These methi parathas are so delicious, soft and full of flavours that I always get his empty tiffin box when he comes back home. In fact, my daughter enjoys every bite of this paratha thoroughly.
Methi paratha recipe aka methi ka paratha is a simple and easy recipe. The difficulty level of preparing this recipe of paratha is moderate and is perfect for novice. It requires very common ingredients which are very easily available in any Indian kitchen pantry. Though the recipe is simple, but it tastes awesome with extraordinary flavours. The best part of the dish is that it does not require any side to have it. Yogurt, pickle, chutney or ketchup any of these condiments with some raw onion is enough to accompany the luscious paratha recipe.
Methi paratha recipe with step by step photos and instructions have been provided in the ‘Instructions’ section of the recipe. Before directly jumping into the recipe, let me share few interesting facts about the recipe and the primary ingredient Methi leaves.
Methi recipes
Methi recipes are very famous in India not only because of its taste and flavour but also for its health benefits. There are myriad recipes that are cooked in Indian cuisine with these healthy-aromatic green leaves. Many popular and palatable side dishes, fritters, flat breads and pakodas are prepared every day with this magical ingredient and Methi paratha is one of them.
Health benefits of Methi Leaves
- Fenugreek Leaves are full of nutrients and fibre.
- They are excellent for our liver and helps to get rid of many diseases like gastric issues and intestinal problems.
- Dried Fenugreek Leaves are also used as mouth freshener.
- It helps to cure many respiratory problems.
- It is very good for our heart. It helps to reduce the bad cholesterol of the body.
- It is very good source of Iron and helps to cure Anaemia.
- It helps to control the sugar level of our body.
How to cut and clean Methi Leaves?
- First separate the leaves from the stem.
- Take the leaves in a colander and rinse them thoroughly in running water.
- Chop them finely with a knife.
Tips to prepare perfect Methi ka paratha
- Finely chop the methi leaves for proper taste, flavour and texture for the paratha.
- If you don’t like the bitter taste of methi leaves then after chopping them, mix them with some salt and allow them to rest for half an hour. Then squeeze out the extra moisture and add it into the paratha mixture.
- Don’t skip ginger and garlic from the recipe. It blends perfectly with the flavour of methi leaves.
- After preparing the paratha dough, cover it and allow it to rest for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the paratha once and then fold it and roll out again. This step helps to get crispier paratha.
How to make methi paratha?
To prepare the methi paratha, first cut and clean the methi leaves and wash them thoroughly. Then finely chop them.
I just love the slightly bitter taste of fenugreek leaves aka methi leaves. If you don’t like it then take them into a bowl and mix them with some salt. Keep them aside for half an hour. Then squeeze out the excess moisture.
Take a large mixing bowl and add whole wheat flour, chopped fenugreek leaves aka methi leaves, ginger paste, chopped garlic, salt, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, coriander powder, carom seeds, cumin seeds, oil all together into the bowl and mix them evenly.
Add water slowly and make a soft dough by kneading the mixture thoroughly. Cover the dough with a muslin cloth and allow it to rest for half an hour.
Divide the dough into six equal parts and make flat round discs with them. Place one dough ball on a rolling board and sprinkle some wheat flour. Roll out a flat round paratha with the help of rolling pin.
For extra crisp, make small pleats of the rolled-out paratha by folding repeatedly. Swirl the long thick folded paratha to a round disk like pinwheel pizza. Then again, roll it out to a round thin paratha. But this step is completely optional.
Place a rolled-out methi paratha on a warm dry tawa. First dry roast it from both the sides on medium flame. Then shallow fry it in oil from both the sides till cooked.
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Ingredients:
- 1½ cups Fenugreek leaves (Methi leaves), tightly packed
- 1½ cups whole Wheat flour (Atta)
- ½ tablespoon Ginger paste or finely chopped
- ½ tablespoon Garlic, finely chopped
- ¼ teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
- ¼ teaspoon Carom seeds (Ajwain)
- 1 teaspoon red Chilli powder
- ¼ teaspoon Coriander powder (Dhaniya powder)
- 1 teaspoon Garam Masala powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- 100 ml Water to knead the dough, use as required
- 1 tablespoon Wheat flour, to sprinkle during rolling the parathas
- Oil to fry the Parathas, 1-1½ teaspoons of oil for each paratha
Instructions:
- Take a large mixing bowl and add 1½ cup whole wheat flour, 1½ cup fenugreek leaves, ½ tablespoon ginger paste, ½ tablespoon chopped garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon red chilli powder, ¼ teaspoon coriander powder, 1 teaspoon garam masala powder, ¼ teaspoon carom seeds, ½ teaspoon cumin seeds, 1 tablespoon oil one by one into the bowl and give a nice mix with the help of a spoon or hand.
- Add water slowly and make a soft dough by kneading the mixture thoroughly. For me, it required 100 ml water to prepare the dough.
- Cover the dough with a kitchen towel or muslin cloth and let it rest for half an hour.
- Again, Knead the dough for a minute after resting it and divide them into equal portions to make large paratha balls. I have divided the dough into six equal portions.
- Roll the portions in between your palms and put pressure on the top to make flat rounds.
- Place a flat round dough ball on the rolling board and dust some wheat flour on the rolling board. Roll the dough ball and flatten it into a thin circle like roti with rolling pin.
- Make small pleats of the rolled-out paratha by folding repeatedly. Then swirl the long thick folded paratha to a round disk like pinwheel pizza. Dust the rolling board with some flour. Then again roll out it to a round thin paratha. This step gives better texture and extra crisp to the parathas.
- Put a tawa or pan on flame.
- Once the pan is hot, put the rolled paratha on it and dry roast it on medium flame for ½ to 1 minute until the base is partially cooked. Then flip the paratha and cook further.
- Drizzle some oil and spread on the top too. Press the paratha towards the tawa from both the sides. Shallow fry the parathas from both sides on medium flame until the paratha gets cooked perfectly and golden spots appear on both the sides. Flip once or twice in between as required.
Tip: Do not cook it in high flame. Dark spots may appear on parathas.
Serving Instruction
Transfer the methi ka paratha on serving plate. Serve immediately to enjoy its best taste. Serve the Parathas with some Pickle, Yogurt, salad and enjoy the healthy and delicious recipe of paratha.
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