Spinach Chappathi

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour -  1 cup
• Green chilly - 2 nos
• Garlic - 2 pods
• Spinach - 3 cup
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Put spinach in boiling water for 2 mins, drain it.
• Add garlic, green chillies and spinach in a mixer and grind it into a fine paste.
• Add this paste, salt and ½ tsp ghee to the flour and mix well.
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Make the dough into small balls and is rolled out into chappathi.
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled Chappathi by smearing little ghee.

Healthy Colourful Chappathi / Roti

This colorful chappathi contains spinach, carrot, and beetroot. So it is good for health.

Kids will love it because of its visual appearance and taste.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 3 cups
• Beetroot (chopped)- 1 medium
• Carrot (chopped)- 1 no
• Spinach - 2 cup
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Grind carrot in to fine paste (with little water).
• Put spinach in boiling water for 2 mins, drain it and mash it in a mixer to make a paste.
• Grind beetroot into a smooth paste.
• Add the beetroot paste, salt and ½ tsp ghee to 1 cup flour and mix well.
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Repeat the same process with carrot paste and spinach paste instead of beetroot paste.
• Make the dough into small balls.
• Use this colorful doughs to make colorful chappathi in any desired shape you like.
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled Chappathi by smearing little ghee.

Aloo Paratha

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Curd / Yogurt - 2 tbsp
• Potato - 2 nos
• Finely chopped Onion - 1 nos
• Finely chopped chillies - 4 nos
• Finely chopped Ginger - ½ tsp
• Chopped Corriander leaves - 2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
• cumin seed - ¼ tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Boil potatoes ,Peel skin and mash them and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan .
• Put cumin seeds and allow to splutter
• Add chopped onion, chopped ginger and green chillies and saute well till it turns transparent.
• Add the mashed potatoes, salt, turmeric powder and mix well and let it cook for a minute.
• Remove from fire and add chopped corriander leaves and mix well.
• Let it cool.
• Add curd/ yogurt, 1 tsp ghee, water and salt to the flour and knead it with hands gently until the dough becomes soft like chappathi and keep it aside for 30 mins.
• Make the flour dough into Small balls.
• Roll out the dough, place a spoonful of  Potato masala in the center and wrap it closely.
• Roll it again into round shape with the help of dry flour.
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled paratha by smearing little ghee.

Recommended Combination: Serve with Curd and Pickle.

Carrot Chappathi

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Grated Carrot - 2 cups
• Chilly Powder - ¼ tsp
• Chopped Cilantro - 1 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Add the grated Carrot, salt, chopped cilantro, chilly powder and ½ tsp Ghee to the flour and mix well.
• Knead the dough with hands gently( using little water ) until it becomes soft and keep aside for 10 minutes.
• Make the dough into Small balls.
• The dough is rolled out into thin discs with help of dry flour .
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled Chappathi by smearing little ghee.

Beetroot Chappathi

It is a healthy dish which everyone would like.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Chopped Beetroot - 1 cup
• Chopped Green Chilly - 2 nos
• Chopped Cilantro - 1 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Cook beetroot well and let it cool.
• Grind it into a smooth paste.
• Add the beetroot paste, salt, chopped cilantro, chopped green chilly and ½ tsp Ghee to the flour and mix well.
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Make the dough into Small balls.
• The dough is rolled out into thin discs with help of dry flour .
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled Chappathi by smearing little ghee.

Sweet Boli

Boli is a stuffed sweet paratha like dish. It is usually served with paal paayasam / semiya payasam (rice pudding) in sadya, popularly in southern part of kerala.It can be served as both dessert and snack.

INGREDIENTS:

• Channa dal (Kadalaparippu) – 1 cup
• Wheat flour  or maida – 1  cup
• Rice flour – ¼ cup 
• Sugar – 1  cup 
• Gingelly oil –  ¼  cup
• Ghee - 2 tbsp 
• Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
• Turmeric Powder - A pinch 

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix wheat flour or maida and turmeric powder together .
• Add water to the flour and knead it with hands gently until the dough becomes soft like chappathi.
• Add gingelly oil on top of the dough and  keep aside for 1 hour.
• Cook the channa dal in water in a pressure cooker for 2 whistle.
• Drain the excess water and grind it into fine paste(without water).
• Heat a pan and add channa daal paste,sugar, cardmom powder and 1 tbsp ghee in to it and mix well.
• Stir continuously and cook the mixture.
• Turn off the stove when the sugar melts and the mixture seperates from the pan and let it cool.
• Make the flour dough into small balls(poori size).
• Roll out the dough, place the daal mixture in the center and wrap it closely.
• Roll it again into round shape as thin as possible.
• Use rice flour to avoid stickiness.
• Heat the tawa and cook both sides of the rolled boli by smearing little ghee.

Recommended Combination: Serve with Paalada / semiya payasam/ paalpayasam

Pathiri

Pathiri is made with rice flour and water. It is also called rice chappathi..

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Salt - As required

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Boil water with salt and oil.
• Add rice flour into it and stir well.
• Roll into small balls; flatten them smearing rice flour.
• Heat pan and place the pathiris on it.
• Cook on both the sides

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Egg Curry, Egg Roast, Chicken Curry.

Chappathi

Chappathi is the traditional Indian bread, It can be eaten at any meal of the day usually eaten with curries or cooked vegetables. It is made from wheat flour, cooked on a tawa.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Hot Water - 1 cup
• Ghee or oil - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix Oil or Ghee, Salt and Flour.
• Slowly add warm water.
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Make the dough into Small balls.
• The dough is rolled out into thin discs with help of dry flour .
• Heat a flat pan or Tava
• Place the chappathis in the hot tava and cook until both the sides turns to golden brown.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Podimas,Parippu,Vegetable Curry,Egg Curry, Chicken Curry.