MASURA DALI PARATA

Posted on March 14, 2016

 

   MASURA DALI PARATA

 

Ingredients

• Red lentil whole (Sabut masur dal) – 1cup
• Potato large – 1
• Onion sliced -1
• Ginger and garlic paste – 2tsp
• Green chili chopped – 2
• Asaeoetida (Hing) – ¼ tsp
• Punch Phuran – ½ tsp
• Black cumin (Sahi jeera) – ¼ tsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Red chilli powder -1 tsp
• Garam masala powder – ½ tsp
• Coriander leaves (chopped) – 2tbsp
• Sugar – 1tsp (Optional)
• Dry mango powder (Aam chur) – 1tsp( Optional)
• Oil/Ghee
• Wheat flour – 3cup
• Salt to taste

METHOD

• In a plate take wheat flour (aata), 1 tbsp oil and salt. Mix it together.
• Add water and knead it into soft dough. Cover it with lid and let it rest for 25 minutes.
• Wash the dal. In pressure cooker take dal, water, salt, turmeric powder and hing.
• Wash the potatoes, peel and cut it into 4 pieces. Add it in the pressure cooker.
• Closed the lid of cooker and cook it till it whistles once. Then let the gas from the cooker release on its own. Smash the boiled potato.
• Heat 2tbsp oil in a pan. Add punch phuran and black cumin and let it crackle.
• Add onion and green chili. Fry it for some time and add red chili powder, ginger and garlic paste fry it till the smell of raw garlic goes away.
• Add boiled dal, smashed potato, mango powder, garam masala and sugar. Mix it and cook it in high flame till the water evaporates.
• Add coriander leaves and mix it thoroughly and let it cool down.
• Cut small sized ball out of dough and roll it out using a rolling pin.
• Put 2spoon dal masala in the rolled out dough and seal the edges and again make paratha with rolling pin.
• Heat tawa and cook the parantha from both the sides. Brush ghee or butter and cook for some time.
• Masur dal paratha is ready.
• Serve hot with curd/chutney/sabji.

TRIVIA- You can use the same masala to make pooris or kachoris.