Breakfast, Paratha/Flatbread
Sanika Khadilkar
Aloo Paratha
Aloo Paratha
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Paneer Paratha

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Ingredients:

For the filling:

  • 2 cups grated paneer
  • 1 tablespoon amchoor powder (dry mango powder)
  • ½ teaspoons red chili powder
  • ½ teaspoon garam masala
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ cup chopped cilantro

For the cover:

  • 3 cups whole wheat flour
  • Salt to taste
  • Water to knead the dough

Method:

  1. Get a bowl. Add flour and salt. Make dough using enough water.
  2. Add grated paneer to another bowl. Add amchoor powder, garam masala, salt, red chili powder, and chopped cilantro. Mix the filling properly.
  3. Get the whole wheat dough and knead it again and make 8-10 balls out of it.
  4. Get one flour ball and roll out in a small disk using roiiling pin. Add 1 or 1½ tablespoon filling mixture in the center of the rolled disk. Gather the edges and seal them properly.
  5. Flatten this ball with your hands and dip into the flour. Roll out in a big circle using the rolling pin.
  6. Heat tava/griddle. Place the rolled paratha and brush the sides and the center with some oil or butter. Cook from both the sides by flipping the other side.
  7. Serve hot.

Tomato saar

Tomato Saar

Serves: 2 persons

Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 3 tomatoes chopped roughly
  • ½ inch ginger cut into pieces
  • 1 green chilli chopped
  • 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
  • 1 cup water
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
  • 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

For tadka/seasoning:

  • ½ teaspoon oil
  • ½ teaspoon ghee/butter
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • Pinch of asafoetida
  • 5-6 curry leaves

Method:

  1. Add tomatoes, grated coconut, chili, ginger and water in a pressure cooker. Cook everything together for 3-4 whistles. Let the pressure go down completely.
  2. Open the pressure cooker lid and keep it open until it is completely cool down.
  3. Add the cooled mixture in a mixer/blender. Grind it properly. Strain the grinded tomato mixture into a pan through a strainer.
  4. Add salt and sugar and start boiling it.
  5. Meanwhile let's prepare tadka/seasoning. Get another pan and oil and ghee/butter. Add cumin seeds. As soon as they start spluttering, add curry leaves, and asafoetida. Switch off the flame.
  6. Pour this tadka on boiling tomato saar. Immediately add red chilli powder to it. Mix everything. Turn the flame to simmer.
  7. Let it cook for another 5 minutes. Add chopped cilantro. Turn off the flame.
  8. Serve hot with Vegetable Pulao or Masale Bhat or Plain white rice.

Maharashtrian Festival Thali (Masale Bhat, Tomato Saar, Puri, Srikhand)

Vegetable Pulao and Tomato Saar