Palak Chapathi
Palak Chapathi- home style flat bread made with spinach / palak leaves and spices.
Servings: 10 chapathi
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour / godhumai maavu
- 2 cups spinach leaves / palak leaves / pasalai keerai chopped, tightly packed
- 2 teaspoon ginger minced or grated
- 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1 pinch amchur powder / mango powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 pinch sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/2 cup water (plus a little more for kneading)
- 2 tablespoon melted ghee or oil for toasting
- 1/4 cup flour (wheat or maida) for dusting and rolling
Instructions
- Heat oil in a tawa and season with cumin seeds.
- Add in chopped spinach leaves along with minced ginger, pinch of sugar and salt. Saute for few minutes until the leaves wilt a bit. Switch off and let it cool for sometime.
- Meanwhile sieve whole wheat flour with little salt
- Add the sauteed spinach mix along with red chilli powder, amchur powder and garam masala powder.
- Mix well with your fingers, add water little by little to make a soft dough.
- Cover the dough with a clean kitchen towel and rest for atleast 30 to 45 minutes.
- Make lemon size balls... roughly will yield 10 (6 inch diameter) chapathis.
- Roll out to 1/8 inch thickness
- Cook about 1 minute over high flame on either side or until you see brown spots.
- Apply oil or ghee when done and remove from pan.
- Serve hot with choice of curry or with simple plain yogurt!