Ajwain Paratha is an easy and delicious ajwain flavored salted flatbread is a favorite Punjabi breakfast dish to pair with morning tea with a dollop of butter.
What is Paratha?
Paratha is an unleavened flatbread made with wheat flour, is a combination of layers in the dough( PARAT-Layers, ATTA-Dough) and hence called paratha. It is cooked on tawa or skillet with a shallow frying method using oil or ghee and served with tea, yogurt, pickle, chutney, and curries.
We love eating ajwain paratha with tea in the mornings for a quick and easy brekfast and it also helps us feel satiated until lunch time.
Basic Ingredients for Paratha:
We only need four main ingredients to make the ajwain paratha.
- Wheat flour
- Salt
- Ghee/oil
- Ajwain seed
How to make ajwain paratha?
The paratha making is so therapeutic and relaxing, and if you have your dough ready in the refrigerator than it takes very little time to enjoy them. After that, the only thing you need to learn is the rolling and once you get the hang of it then you will be a master of it.
Serving Suggestions.
I serve paratha with tea, and pickle for my breakfast. But to serve it with gravies, my preference is all kinds of rich gravies like baby corn gravy, paneer makhani etc.
Looking for more such bread recipes to get some ideas for your lunch and dinner ideas? Do not miss my Bidari Paratha and Onion Paratha and the best one’s Green peas Paratha.
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Ajwain Paratha
Equipment
- Skillet/Tawa
Ingredients
- 2 cup wheat flour+extra for dusting
- water as required
- 1 teaspoon carom seeds /ajwain
- salt to taste
- 1/4 cup oil or ghee
Instructions
- Sieve wheat flour in a bowl and knead a soft dough using water. Keep aside for 10 minutes.
- Make 2 round balls from the dough.
- Take one ball on a flat board. Dust with dry wheat flour and roll in small round shape.
- Now apply some oil on the disc with fingers.
- Sprinkle 1/2 pinch of salt all over it. Likewise, sprinkle some carom seeds on it.
- Now sprinkle some dry wheat flour over it.
- Press one half of this disc towards the center.
- Apply some oil and dry flour on this side of the round disc as well.
- Press another half towards the center. Apply oil and dry flour on it.
- Now you can see a shape like in the picture above, just fold this one overlapping the other.
- Dust with dry flour. Roll into a big round, square or triangle shape.
- Heat a non stick Tava and transfer this round on it. Let it cook on low flame for 3 minutes.
- Flip on the other side and apply 1 tsp oil/ghee all over it. Now quickly flip it again.
- Cook from this side on low medium heat with pressing and moving by a kitchen towel or spatula.
- Now flip again and cook from this side for a minute or so. Likewise, make some more paratha.
- Remove from heat and serve warm with butter and tea.
- Keep stacking the paratha in a casserole box or ina clean kitchen towel if planning to eat later.
Notes
- After applying ghee in the layers you can shape it in any shape desired shape, either round, square or triangle.
- I prefer making paratha with ghee but you can use oil too.
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Best Regards,
Sapana Behl
Dish looks so amazing. Perfect dish..!
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