Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Serves: 8 no

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. Wheat flour for 8 chapathis
2. 2 cup fresh or frozen green peas
3. 2 - 3 green chili
4. 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
5. 4 cloves garlic
6. 1 cm length ginger
7. 1 tsp cumin seeds
8. 1/4 tsp garam masala
9. A pinch of turmeric powder
10. Salt as per your taste
11. Water as required
12. 12 tsp cooking oil or ghee

Instructions for making green peas paratha or matar parata:

1. Take wheat flour in a wide bowl. Knead it into a soft dough by adding salt and required water. At the end add in 2 table spoon of oil, knead it for a while, cover it and rest it.
2. Take either fresh or frozen green peas in a container.
3. Next steam cook the green peas. I filled my cooker with a cup of water and placed the container inside (without adding water to the green peas) and pressure cooked the green peas by making 3 whistles. If cooking it by adding water then after cooking drain the water completely. Keep it aside.
4. Next grind the coriander leaves, ginger, garlic and green chili using a mixer grinder. If required add in a tbsp of water while grinding.
5. Next to the same jar..add in cooked green peas.
6. Coarse grind it. Keep it aside.
7. Next heat a tsp of oil in a frying pan and add cumin seeds.
8. When cumin seeds splutters, add in ground green peas and spice mixture.
9. Add in turmeric powder, garam masala powder and salt. Optionally you can add carom seeds. Stir until excess water is dried and switch off the stove.
10. Once the mixture is warm make lemon sized balls.
11. Next take a lemon sized wheat flour dough and make it like a bowl using fingers. Place a green peas stuffing ball inside. Carefully bring the sides together and stuff the masala inside. Make sure that the outer cover is of even thickness throughout. Press it gently to flatten it.
12. Dust enough wheat flour on flattened and stuffed dough and roll it carefully using a rolling pin.
13. Heat the tava or pan and cook the rolled radish paratha by applying little oil or ghee.
14. Flip and cook on both the sides.
15. Once parathas are done, apply some ghee on both the sides and serve it. This given good aroma and softness to the paratha.

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