Stuffed Parathas are great all-in-one meals, specially to pack for kids’ lunches. Easy for us to make, easy for the kids to eat, its a win-win situation. This recipe uses chicken filling. However, veggie fillings are equally (if not more) delightful. My favorite is grated cauliflower stuffing. You can check out the cauliflower filling recipe in my Gobi Sliders post.
To make the parathas , you will need :
- Whole wheat flour /Atta – 3 cups (makes about 12 stuffed parathas)
- salt – 2 tsp
- oil – 3 tsp
To make the filling, you will need :
- Minced Chicken – 1 lb
- Onions – 1 chopped
- Green chillies – 1 chopped
- Cilantro – handful
- Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tsp
- Fennel – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
- Red chilli powder – 3 tsp
- Garam Masala – 1 tsp
Here are the steps:
- Mix the flour, salt and oil and then add water and knead it to a smooth dough. Cover with wet cloth or wet paper towel and set aside for 2 hours.
- To make the filling : In a pot, add 2 tsp of oil, fry the fennel. Then saute the chopped onions, green chillies and cilantro. Also add the ginger garlic paste and saute until the flavors come out.
- Add the ground chicken and sprinkle some salt.
- When the juices come out, add turmeric, chilli powder and garam masala.
- Cook until the chicken is thoroughly cooked. This won’t take long, may be 7 – 8 minutes. Set the filling aside.
- Make even sized balls out of the dough that has been rested.
- Roll out 2 balls to about 2 inches in diameter (like puris). Place the filling on one.
- Cover the filling with the other puri and twist and press the edges together for sealing.
- Now roll out this stuffed puri gently to about 4-5 inches in diameter. Make sure the filling is evenly spread, and not clunked up on one side.
- Heat a skillet and cook the parathas.
- Cook both sides until brown spots appear. You can rub with little oil or dab with a butter stick.
The chicken parathas are ready, serve hot with your favorite curry. ( I served it with a simple egg white curry).
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Great clear to read blog..lovely pictures and recipes. Thanks for the follow. I love your blog!
Thank you for stopping by and thanks for the follow too 🙂
From Chennai? We traveled to the south for 10 days mostly to see the temples. Husband is professor of architecture and he was leading 11 students. We were in Ahmedabad for 3 months and then traveled to the north for 2 weeks and the south for 10 days. It was wonderful and we hope to come again in 2015. Are you living in Jersey or just visiting?
I am from a small coastal town called “Tuticorin”,(very south of Tamilnadu) I don’t know if you visited “Tiruchendur” temple (or may be Madurai Meenakshi Temple ???) during your trip, my town is closer to it I am living in NJ for the past 12 years 🙂
We went to Madurai, I am pretty sure. There is a big temple there right? The southern temples were amazing.
Yes yes, The Meenakshi temple. Did you visit Kanyakumari ?
No, but it looks terrific. We went to Kerala and to Goa because the students begged for some beach time! But I guess there are beaches there , too!
yeah. I was in India few months back, and went to Kerala too….Kovalam beaches….heavenly place. Hope your students enjoyed the beaches 🙂
They loved everything about India except Delhi belly when they insisted on eating street food. David gave them two whole days to play and they hate a blast riding scooters and sunning while we went to Portuguese churches!
Delhi belly is part of the Indian experience 🙂 I am glad to hear that everyone had a great time 🙂
Now that you live in the US, do you get Delhi Belly until your stomach adjusts?
I was super careful even brushing my teeth with bottled water. I washed my hands a lot and was great. Missed salad though but loved the food!
I got sick after eating street food. But eating local yogurt with every meal helps a lot.
Oh yes I always had raita and mango lassi! So? Yum !
yeah 🙂
Fun chatting. . Going to say goodnight , now. . . .
Goodnight…it was really nice talking to you 🙂