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Hey my fab Steemians,

Hope you are having an amazing Easter!! Me and the family are all home scoffing our faces with chocolate.My fillings are hurting and I am off the sweet treats for a bit! I asked my kids what they felt like for lunch and they wanted mummie's parantha's.I have not posted much of my traditional indian recipes, so thought I would with this meal.

Parantah is a traditional flat bread made out of wholemeal flour stuffed with a filling.The most common fillings are potatoe, cauliflower and pulses.These flat breads are cooked on a Tava ( flat pan) and cooked in oil or ghee.Below is my version with my british twist of adding cheese.This recipe will make approx 8 medium size parantahs.

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Ingredients

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2 cups of Whole meal flour

1 cup of water

1 Tbsp Oil

Coconut oil spray

2 medium size potatoes

1/2 Cauliflower

1 Onion

15g Cheddar cheese

1 tsp Garam Masala

1 tsp Tumeric

1 tsp of Cumin seeds

1 tsp of Chilli powder(optional)

1 fresh Green chilli ( optional)

1 Tsp of Salt

1/2 Tsp Pepper

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Method

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Step 1. Place your wholemeal flour in a bowl and create a well in the middle.

Step 2. Pour the water and oil in the middle of the well.

Step 3. Mix the flour, oil and water by hand it will start to form together. (Pam's Tip- mix in circular motion with your fingers)

Step 4. Keep kneading the dough until it forms into a ball.The consitency should be firm.Cover and rest for 30 mins.

Step 5. Whilst dough resting.Peel and cut the cauliflower and potatoes and boil in water until tender ( i shred the cauliflower leaves and use too, it is apparently very healthy for you.)

Step 6. Once veggies are tender mash it all together.Leave to one side.

Step 7. In a cold pan add oil and cumin seeds.Heat until the seeds turn slightly brown ensure they dont burn.

Step 8. Add onions, tumeric, garam masala, salt and pepper.Mix to cook the spices ( I have left out chilli powder and fresh chillies as mine are child friendly)

Step 9. Once the onions turn golden brown add to the mashed potatoe and cauliflower.

Step 10. Add grated cheese.

Step 11. Now mix all the ingredients together and that is your filling done.

Step 12. Prepare a bowl with wholemeal flour and have your rolling pin ready.

Step 13. Divide your dough in 8 portions.Each individual dough piece should be slightly bigger then a golf ball.

Step 14. Coat your dough ball in flour and roll in your hand, so it is perfectly round.

Step 15. Now press down your ball and roll it out with the rolling pin.You want the diameter roughly 15cm.

Step 16. Once rolled place 2 big tbsp of the mixture in the middle of the parantha.

Step 17. Bring all the edges together in the centre.Pressing firmly to ensure no filling can escape.

Step 18. Flatten the middle.Sprinkle a little flour and slowly roll out again gently to a diameter of 13cm.

Step 19. Heat a pan on medium heat, spray with oil ( 4 sprays).Place the uncooked parantha on the pan.

Step 20. Cook the parantha either side for about 8 minutes occassionally turning over.Once golden brown remove of the pan.

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There you have my wonderful parantha's.My family love this.Traditionally in india you would eat theses for breakfast or brunch.They are normally accompanied by salad, yoghurt and pickle.Served with a big dollop of butter in the middle.It is not for the faint hearted these flat breads.I personally do not use alot of oil and definitley no ghee.I have my coconut spray which works wonderfully.

What I love is you can literally stuff them with anything.You can even make the dough 2 days in advance.Also if you make curries at home and you have leftovers you can use that as your filling.These are fantastic as they are great for vegans and vegetarians and even carnivores like me!

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I hope use try these awesome parantah's.I actually had non left for me.My hungry hobbits went for seconds.lol.What will you use in your filling.Share your recipes.Thanks for stopping by.Let us know your food for thoughts!❤🍽🥔🧀🌮🍽❤