EASY AND HEALTHY SPINACH PARATHA

Spinach paratha is an easy and healthy dinner recipe with spinach and wheat flour. It is an excellent way to include spinach in the diet.

Healthy Dinner Recipe:

Paratha is a traditional Indian recipe that is a part of an everyday meal in many Indian households. Adding spinach, cumin seeds, ginger and green chilies to the paratha adds a flavor and nutritious to the regular paratha. Spinach paratha is an excellent way to include spinach in the kids diet.

Smart Cooking Tips:

1. For a beautiful green color paratha, you can blanch the spinach in a hot boiling water for a couple of minutes and grind with the cumin seeds, green chilies to a smooth puree, add to the wheat flour and knead the dough.

2. Adding green chilies and cumin seeds are optional.

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Easy and Healthy Spinach Paratha

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

Spinach paratha is an easy and healthy dinner recipe with spinach and wheat flour. It is an excellent way to include spinach in the diet.

Course: vegetarian

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 6

Author: Antonet Roajer

Ingredients

• 1 cup SPINACH LEAVES (BLANCHED)
• 2 cup WHEAT FLOUR (ATTA)
• 0.50 tsp CUMIN SEED
• 1 no GREEN CHILIES FINELY CHOPPED (OPTIONAL)
• 0.50 cup WATER (FOR KNEADING DOUGH)
• 1 tsp SALT

Instructions

1. Blanch spinach in hot water for a couple of minutes until the leaf gets shrunk and chop them finely. Chop the green chilies finely.

2. In a bowl, combine wheat flour, salt and mix well. Add chopped spinach, green chilies, cumin seeds and mix well.

3. Add water slowly and knead a soft dough. Divide the dough into small portions, dust it with the flour and roll on the flat surface using a rolling pin into a thin circle shaped parathas.

4. In a hot skillet, place rolled paratha one at a time and cook on both the sides, until the brown spots appear. Spinach paratha is ready to be served.

How to serve spinach paratha?

Serve spinach paratha with any of your favorite curries or with simple dal fry.