Pudhina (Mint) Paratha

Category: Chapati / Paratha  

Preparation Time: 15 mins   

Waiting Time: 30 mins  

Cooking Time: 20 mins    

Servings: yields 8 - 10 Parathas

Mint / Pudhina Paratha

Ingredients:
For dough:

• Wheat flour / Atta - 2 cups
• Pudhina / Mint leaves- 1 cup tightly packed
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• Warm Water  - as needed

For Mint Masala Powder:

• Pudhina / Mint leaves - 1/2 cup tightly packed
• Chaat Masala / Cumin Powder - 1/4 tsp

Other Ingredients:

• Ghee / Oil - for toasting
• Wheat Flour - for Dusting

Method:

1. In a wide bowl, take 2 cups of wheat flour, ghee and required salt, mix well; Clean and chop the mint leaves, add it to the flour  and knead into a smooth soft dough by gradually adding warm water. Keep aside for atleast 30 mins
   
2. Heat a pan and dry roast the 1/2 cup of mint leaves until it become crispy
   
   
   
   
3. Once the leaves got shrunken and crispy, crush them into coarse powder and mix it with Chaat Masala / Cumin powder; keep aside
   
4. After 30 mins, knead the dough for 2 mins and divide the dough into equal lemon sized balls  
5. Take one dough ball, dust it with flour and roll into a thin paratha  
   
6. Apply few drops of ghee / oil and spread it evenly on the paratha, sprinkle little flour
7. From one end of the paratha, start making small pleats till the other end is reached
   
    
8. Roll it to form a circle; flatten it and keep aside till the remaining dough were prepared in the same way
   
9. Take one circled dough, roll into a paratha (not too thin) 
   
10. Heat the tawa, place the parathas and cook till bubbles started to appear on the surface; Turn over and cook the other side
    
11. Once it's cooked, spread little ghee over it and sprinkle the Mint Masala powder
    
12. Serve Hot with any raita or gravy
13. We can also roll as normal chapathis and then sprinkle the masala