Stuffed Spinach Paratha
Yet another attempt to
make Ajoy eat Spinach without making faces ;-) Well to be honest though he
doesn't like it he doesn't make faces, its me who does that :) :) Here I tried
to combine his well known affinity towards paratha yet trying to be different by
making it as stuffing.
Ingredients
3 Cups Wheat Flour
6 Cup Spinach Leaves
2 Potatoes
1/2 Spoon Jeera
1/4 Spoon Mustard Seeds
A Pinch of Asafoetida
1 Spoon Red Chilli
Powder
1/2 Spoon Garam Masala
Salt to taste
Oil
Ghee
Method
- In a plate, mix wheat flour, a spoonful of oil and
salt.
- Add water and knead a soft dough. Keep aside for 30-40
minutes
- Pressure cook the potatoes and keep them aside
- In a pan heat a spoonful of oil and let jeera and
mustard splutter in it.
- Add Asafoetida and then spinach
- Keep stirring and after it leaves water from it add red
chilli powder, garam masala and salt to taste
- Cook with constant stirring till water evaporates. Keep
aside for cooling
- In a mixie, grind the spinach and then mix it with the
grated potatoes.
- Prepare the balls of small lemon size out of this
mixture
- Make same size balls from the dough and prepare the cup
shape.
- Stuff the spinach ball in the cup shape dough and close
the ball. Roll the paratha
- On medium flame, heat the tawa and cook the paratha
from both sides till brown. Spread few drops of oil while its cooking.
- When completely done apply few drops of ghee and serve
with pickle and/or curd
Notes
I didnt want to use lots of masalas or corriander(my another trick to make ajoy
like the disk;-)) so that I can still retain a bit of spinach taste. Instead I
used potatoes that helped in reducing the intensity of the spinach taste :)
Cold Coffee
I first started making this using the instant powder and I remember how it was such a hit with my sister. She loved it to the core. So since then cold coffee always reminds me of my sister - Seema, her affinity and some memorable stories around them (I am sure me and my family can immediately recollect them with just name of cold coffee :D) When we moved to redmond, we made ourselves familiar to the well known starbuck's cold coffee bottles. Costco's membership and deal coupons once in a while meant we consumed them a lot. But as days passed I started missing that fresh cold coffee, thick froth and here I came up with this recipe. I wanted to make this in India for Seema but then flu, cough, cold prevented me from that. Here I am going to share my recipe hoping she would try it sometime and remember those golden days when we consumed cold coffee like freak.
Ingredients
4 cup Milk
2 cup Vanilla Icecream
1.5 Spoon Coffee Powder
5 Spoon Sugar
Method
- Boil a cup of water mixing sugar in it
- Add coffee and dissolve it. Keep aside for cooling.
- In a mixie, add ice cream, coffee, and milk.
- Blend well till the icecream is completely blended.
Notes
Normally I dont keep coffee in freeze after blending it. Its at perfect temparature after the blend.
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