Thursday 11 December 2014

CORN MEAL PARATHA, MAKAI PARATHA

Corn meal paratha or makai paratha is made out of corn meal or maize flour.  There is a difference between corn flour and corn meal.  corn flour looks white and is very fine powder which is a thickening agent whereas  corn meal looks yellow, slightly rava consistency and is used for making corn meal dosa, corn meal adai, corn meal idli, makai ki roti, paratha  etc.

After making the makai ki roti, there was left over dough with me so I decided to make paratha out of it.  It was quite tasty along with the Maa ki daal.  I chose to have this because once I had eaten this combination in one of the Punjabi restaurant. 




corn meal paratha video


Let us look at the recipe now:

Ingredients:

2 cups corn meal
1 cup wheat flour
1 green  chilli finely chopped
1 onion finely chopped
2 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped 
1/2 tsp black pepper powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp fresh cream (malai)
1 tsp lime juice
salt
ghee for making paratha

Optional

hing powder, ajwain, cumin seeds, seasame seeds

Method:

In a wide bowl, mix the corn meal, wheat flour, salt.  add the malai, chopped coriander leaves, green chilli, onion, black pepper powder, garam masala etc. mix again.  now add water little by little to make a dough like you make the normal dough for the paratha.

make equal size balls, i made around 6 out of it.  dust with wheat flour the work surface and roll the paratha.  heat a non stick tava and cook both the sides till black/brown  spots  appears on it.  apply ghee and cook for few seconds.  serve hot with pickle, any kind of gravy subzi, preferably maa ki dal, curd, salad of cucumer/carrot/coriander with a dash of lime and chaat masala on it.

enjoy this delicious dish. do give your feed back. thanks for visiting the blog. 

happy cooking.

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