On seeing bottle guard, my elder daughter always says, "I hate launki, if u want to make me eat it, just put it in khichdi, where I will not get its taste!"
Well we cannot make khichdi everyday and launki is said to be one of the most nutritious vegetable. So I keep on experimenting. Then one day I came up with the idea of grating it and mixing it with the wheat flour to make paratha. I added a few more things to make it healthier and tastier. Hence, the launki parathas. My husband and daughters loved them; they are tasty, healthy and low in calories. Hope your family enjoys it too...
Ingredients
Wheat flour-2 cups
Gram flour-1/2 cup
or
Bajra flour-1/2 cup
Grated bottle guard-1 cup (retain the water)
Green coriander finely chopped- 1/2 cup
Mint leaves finely chopped- 1/4 cup (optional)
Garlic cloves- 9
Green chilli- 1
Cumin powder- 1 tsp
Red chilli powder- 1/2 to 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1tsp
Oil or Ghee for Parathas
Method
Make a paste of garlic and green chillies. Add all the ingredients, add water if required and make a little tight dough. Now make small balls and roll them round chapati style. There is no need to put any oil in the balls. Just roast them on the pan using minimum oil or ghee. Serve them hot with curd and chatni or achaar.
These taste good even when cold so you can keep them in lunch box for kids by applying some tomato ketchup on one side of the paratha and rolling it and for adults, along with some chatni and bhaji or curd.
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