I buy broccoli whenever I see it nice fresh and green…I usually make broccoli stir fry or oven roasted broccoli .Last time I reserved few florets to try out this paratha and it came out so good. I wanted to make it simple with no onion and garlic and here is the recipe for broccoli paratha
Broccoli Paratha Recipe – Ingredients
Preparation Time : 30 mins | Cooking Time : 5 mins per paratha | Makes : 4 parathas
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Wheat Flour – 1/2 cup
Broccoli – 6 small florets (comes to 1/3 cup after grating)
Red Chilli powder – /1/2 tsp
Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt – to taste
Oil – to toast
To temper:
Oil – 1/2 tsp
Ajwain – 1/4 tsp
Method:
- In a wide bowl add wheat flour salt and required water , mix well and knead it form a soft dough as chapathi dough.(The quantikty shown in the below pic may differ from the actual as I used my rajma paratha step pic for this).Rest the dough until we make our stuffing ready.
- Separate broccoli florets and soak in warm water+ little salt for 10mins. Then drain water and chop / grate them fine(I used my vegetable chopper to do this),Set aside.In a pan – heat oil and add ajwain seeds, let it crackle.
- Then add grated broccoli and saute for 3mins then add spice powders along with salt and saute until raw smell leaves.Sprinkle little water and cook covered with a lid till it turns soft and the color changes to pale green.Now the stuffing is ready, transfer the stuffing to a bowl and set aside.
- Flour the surface and roll the chappathi dough slightly thicker. Then add stuffing at the center and gather the dough from all sides like shown below.Seal it finely
- Flip to other side. Now again flatten it slightly with your palms and then start rolling gently. Roll it without the filling oozing out. Dust flour so that it doesn’t stick. Heat a dosa tawa , transfer the parathas, drizzle little oil and cook on both sides until born spots appear.
Serve hot with any pickle of your choice or with curd!
My Notes:
- While rolling for the first time dont give more pressure in the center as the filling is going to be placed in the center and rolled again so make sure the center part is little thicker.
- Gently roll the parathas and dust flour as and when needed.
- Roll your parathas thick or thin as you like it.
- I used my chopper to chop broccoli fine.You can use grater / mixer with pulse option.Dont grind it smooth.
Veena Theagarajan says
December 3, 2013 at 4:23 ammy kids are big fan of broccoli must try this for them
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
December 3, 2013 at 5:51 amgreat way to include broccoli in diet!!! looks very tempting…
Kavitha says
December 3, 2013 at 7:00 amMy kids hates broccoli. This is good way to add broccoli in diet.
Swasthi Blank says
December 3, 2013 at 7:06 ambeautiful and perfectly rolled Sharmi. healthy paratha
Ramya Venkat says
December 3, 2013 at 7:32 amHealthy paratha and love to try this one
Rani Dogra says
December 3, 2013 at 8:38 amI use raw broccoli, either grated of chopped in the chopper, mixed with ginger, salt, pepper, a bit of chilli. The result is amazing, as the broccoli retains its vivid green colour and does not lose its properties through over cooking.
Supriya Arcot says
December 3, 2013 at 9:33 amHealthy way of including the 'not so popular vegetable' Broccoli in our diet.
Radha says
December 3, 2013 at 10:27 amHey, How did you shred the broccoli? Is that using a Food processor, that point is not clear in the post.
Please confirm.
SHARMILEE J says
December 3, 2013 at 1:39 pmI have mentioned already in the steps and in my notes that I used my vegetable chopper for shredding….You can use grater too.
Poornima Porchelvan says
December 3, 2013 at 3:16 pmVery healthy paratha. Love to try this.
Sapthanaa Vytheswaran says
December 3, 2013 at 3:48 pmWill Try this recipe for Sure!!
Awesome!!
Manjula Bharath says
December 4, 2013 at 5:37 amwow thats an healthy and very very delicious paratha dear 🙂
Yes Cook says
December 4, 2013 at 9:37 amI am a big fan of stuffed parathas but haven't tried broccoli yet. Sounds delicious. Lovely clicks.
Thanks for sharing.
sumana ved says
December 4, 2013 at 12:51 pmVery interesting recipe 🙂
Manasi Chaphalkar says
December 14, 2013 at 7:59 amhealthy and yummy recipe..must try now!!
Charu mathi says
December 21, 2013 at 8:54 amtanq yu cho much fo helping us
Sruthy s.v says
January 13, 2014 at 12:30 pmI made this recipe at home… my hubby loved it 🙂 🙂 … and he always makes sure to get broccoli while buying vegetables… Thank U for this tasty yummy recipe !!!!
moon says
February 6, 2014 at 5:14 amHi Sharmi , I regularly do all your recipes. I like your presentation in all dishes. especially Kids lunch box recipes & tips for preparing it. yesterday i did your broccoli paratha for lunch. It was awesome.I had some leftover broccoli stuffing. so with the leftover , I used in my idly like we garnish other vegetables i used this one. It came out very well as broccoli idly . It tastes very good and had it with spicy chutney. I liked to share this tip too you . hope u will try this recipe. Thanks for giving innovating recepies ..
kalyani says
May 9, 2014 at 3:01 pmHi looks gud..can u tell me which brand veg chopper u use..neat cut always…
kalyani says
May 9, 2014 at 3:15 pmNice…which brand veg chopper u use.neat cutting…
SHARMILEE J says
May 9, 2014 at 3:27 pmFor this fine mincing I used my chopper which I got from Rathna Stores…dont remember the brand.But for other veggies I use a knife only for chopping 🙂
Unknown says
May 17, 2015 at 4:34 amMade this for breakfast today and turned really well. Thanks for such a wonderful recipe 🙂
Sharmila Loganathan says
July 14, 2015 at 3:13 pmHi Sharmi, Can I prepare the brocolli filling and the dough the previous day itself.
SHARMILEE J says
July 14, 2015 at 4:09 pmYes you can do that…