Ajwain paratha, is made with whole wheat flour and ajwain | omam in Tamil |carom seeds. It is a very simple North Indian paratha, can be made for breakfast or lunch or even dinner too. A perfect one to pack for Lunch box too. Last week, while i was busy with Diwali preparations, saw this ajwain paratha in Veggie wok’s Instagram story. It was super tempting and i decided to make this soon. Finally today before making this ajwain paratha, cleared my silly doubts with anamika and made the parathas. Me being a huge fan of parathas, loved it and the ajwain flavor complimented the paratha well. Check out my
Ajwain paratha
Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins |Makes: 5
Whole wheat flour| atta 1 cup
Salt as needed
Oil few drops
Ajwain 1 and 1/2 tsp
Red chili powder 1 and 1/2 tsp
Ghee or Butter as needed (to make parathas)
Method:
- In a wide bowl add the wheat flour and little salt.
- Add water little by little and make a soft dough.
- Divide this into equal big lemon sized balls.
- In a bowl mix the red chili powder with 2 pinches of salt and mix well.
- Take one dough ball and dust it with dry flour.
- Spread this into a roti.
- Add few drops of ghee on this and spread it.
- Sprinkle red chili powder and spread it on the rolled roti.
- Sprinkle some ajwain on this and press it gently with your fingers.
- Fold this into a semi cirlce and then bring both the edges together.
- If you want to make it as a square paratha follow my masala square paratha recipe.
- Dust this with atta and roll it into a triangle roti.
- Heat a pan and cook the rotis on both sides and drizzle with ghee or a dollop of butter.
- Cook till you see nice golden brown spots on both sides.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
- Serve with plain yogurt or some pickle.
- You can have this ajwain paratha with tea /coffee too.
Method with step wise preparations:
- In a wide bowl add the wheat flour and little salt.
- Add water little by little and make a soft dough.
- Divide this into equal big lemon sized balls.
- In a bowl mix the red chili powder with 2 pinches of salt and mix well.
- Take one dough ball and dust it with dry flour.
- Spread this into a roti.
- Add few drops of ghee on this and spread it.
- Sprinkle red chili powder and spread it on the rolled roti.
- Sprinkle some ajwain on this and press it gently with your fingers.
- Fold this into a semi cirlce and then bring both the edges together.
- If you want to make it as a square paratha follow my masala square paratha recipe.
- Dust this with atta and roll it into a triangle roti.
- Heat a pan and cook the rotis on both sides and drizzle with ghee or a dollop of butter.
- Cook till you see nice golden brown spots on both sides.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
- Serve with plain yogurt or some pickle.
- You can have this ajwain paratha with tea /coffee too.
Notes:
- You can make this in any preferable shape of your choice.
- To make it very simple, knead ajwain and red chili powder to the dough and make the parathas.
- The parathas tasted very nice with plain yogurt.
