Broccoli paratha

Broccoli is said to be very healthy and yet we eat them very less. I havent found broccoli in abundance in my childhood , now in cities yes but in small towns and villages its almost never seen in India. But as we found this veggie it has been our favourite and we started experimenting and including it with masala into Indian cuisine.

Broccoli rice for adults and porridge for babies Multi gran broccoli porridge and broccoli and carrot porridge are few noted here but Ive used extensively for my baby.

Another result of our experiments is broccoli paratha. Since we love paratha and try making multiple varieties wanted to try out of box veggies for it.The result is a delicious yet healthy paratha you could never leave.


Recipe: 

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup for 4 parathass
salt - 1/2 tspn as per taste
chilli powder - 1 tspn
water for making dough
oil for frying.

for stuffing:

broccoli - 3/4
onion - 1 medium
cumin seeds - 1/4 tspn
garam masala - 1/4 tspn
coriander powder - 1/4 tspn
amchur - 1/8 tspn
chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
salt as needed - 1/4 tspn

Procedure:

• Take a large bowl and add wheat flour, salt, chilli powder. Make a small well in the flour pour water (around 1/4 cup) and knead it to form a soft dough. Add water as needed. the dough shoudnt be sticky.
• If more water is added then knead it for some time to absorb the water or add flour to balance it.
• cover the dough with a cloth and keep aside.
• Clean the broccoli and remove the florets and finely chop it. Or alternatively can grate the broccoli to get fine pieces.
• Chop onion finely .
• In a wok add 1 tbspn of oil and add cumin seeds.
• Add onions and salt and fry till translucent.
• Add broccoli and stir it and cook in low flame with closed lid for 10 minutes. Can alternatively fry it in high flame but make sure you are always there to prevent burning.
• add all the masala powders and mix well.Once cooked keep aside.

Preparing paratha 

• divide the dough into 4 balls.
• apply some wheat flour on one ball and flatten it into a small thick circle.
• take 2 spoons of filling broccoli and place it in the middle.
• Now close the corners to the center to form a ball.
• apply flour to it and flatten it into parathas.
• Prepare all the parathas and keep aside.
• Heat the griddle/tawa and put a paratha on it.
• cook it in medium flame till its roasted by flipping it.
• apply oil on both sides while flipping to taste better .

Parathas can be had with any pickle and curd/yoghurt.

Broccoli Rice

Broccoli is said to be the most healthiest vegetable yet we eat it very less . We use it very rarely in our indian cooking . To make our kids and ourselves eat more of this veggie we have to adapt it into our cooking. A delicious and healthy recipe and very quick for the working people out there..

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1
Onion - 1
green chillies - 3
garlic - 4 pods
cashewnuts - 3 tbspn or as per wish
rice - 1 cup
water  for cooking rice
oil - 2 tbspn

turmeric - 1/2 tspn
salt to taste
coriander powder - 1 tbspn
garam masala - 1/2 tbspn

Procedure:

Cook the rice in 1 cup rice: 2 cup water ratio and keep aside.
If using basmati rice then cook with 1 cup basmati rice: 1/2 cup water ratio.
Once the rice is cooked let it cool down so that it dosent turn sticky.

Parallely the broccoli can be cooked.

Slit the green chillies and keep aside. Smash the garlic and remove the peel.
Cut onions into thin slices .
Clean the broccoli and remove the florets from the bunch.
Chop the broccoli finely alternatively you can grate broccoli to get fine pieces .

In a wok add oil. Once heated add green chillies, garlic and cashwes and fry it.
Once the onion is transluscent add broccoli.
add 1 tspn of salt and mix it well and cook with closed lid for 15 mins.
Keep sauteing it every 5 minutes.

Once the broccoli is cooked add turmeric, coriander powder and garam masala and mix it well.
add the cooked rice and salt and mix well.
keep frying the rice for 10 minutes.

You can use ketchup to eat along with the rice.