A common street food, Mughlai paratha is shallow fried with delicious, peppery fillings. Try the buttery flatbread with a simple potato curry or chutney.
Ingredients
For dough
All purpose flour / maida : 3 cups
Refined oil : 3 tbsp + more for greasing
Salt : ¼ tsp
Warm water / milk : 1 cup +/-
Baking powder : a pinch (optional)
For minced meat filling
Minced meat : 250 gm (8.8 ounces or half of a pound)
Onion : 1 large cut into slices
Green chillies : 2-3 chopped
Ginger-garlic paste : 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder : ¼ tsp
Cumin powder : 1 tsp
Bengali garam masala : ½ tsp
Salt and sugar to taste
Oil for frying
Red chilli powder ; ½ tsp
Cilantro : ¼ cup finely chopped
For spicy potato curry (dry)
Potatoes : 3 large cut into cubes
Green chillies ; 2-3 finely chopped
Ginger paste : 1 tsp
Turmeric powder :1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder ; 1 tsp
Black pepper powder : ½ tsp
Cumin powder : 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil : 2 tbsp
Others
Eggs : 3 beaten well with pinch of salt
Oil for shallow frying the paratha
Onions : 1cup finely chopped
Green chillies : 2-3 tbsp finely chopped
To serve
Tomato ketchup
Mustard sauce / kasundi
Wedges of lime
Instructions
To prepare the dough
Sift the flour in a bowl, sprinkle the salt, baking powder if you are using and make a well in the center and add the oil.
Using your fingers, rub the oil with the flour very well till it resembles fine bread crumbs.
This will ensure the flakiness of the paratha.
Knead the dough using warm water or milk (milk makes the dough soft), adding it slowly and knead it into very soft and pliable dough.
The dough should be soft, pliable, stretchy and should be able to roll out thin.
Once you attained that stage, grease the dough with the oil, cover it with damp kitchen towel and leave it to rest for 2 hours.
Preparing the minced meat filling
Wash the minced meat (keema) in a colander, keeping a bowl underneath.
Heat one tablespoon oil in a pan and fry the onion slices.
keeping the heat to the maximum, add the minced meat (keema) and fry on a high heat. It will start releasing lots of water.
Add the ginger garlic paste, all the spices, green chillies, salt and keep frying it on high heat.
Once the water dries up, check for the seasonings, lower the heat, cover it and cook till done.
Add few spoon of water if requires to keep the meat moist.
Add the chopped cilantro and mix it well.
Make this a day before and reheat it before adding it in the paratha.
To prepare spicy potato curry (dry)
Wash and peel the potatoes, cut it into cubes
Heat the oil in the pan, add the potatoes and fry it for few minutes.
Add the ginger paste, green chillies, all the spices, salt and keep sauteing it.
Add one cup water, lower the heat, cover and cook the potatoes till done.
Once the potatoes are tender and has soaked up the water, check for the seasonings and take it from the heat.
Make this a day ahead, reheat it and serve it with Mughlai paratha.
To make the Mughlai paratha
Knead the prepared dough lightly for couple of minutes. Divide it into equal golf ball size sections.
Grease the rolling pin and the board.
Take the ball, roll out thinly into a square. Roll out as thin as possible but not paper thin, else it will not hold the stuffing well.
Use the pictures given in the post as guide.
Spread a teaspoon of egg evenly on to the paratha, leaving the edges.
Place the minced meat filling in the center. Top it with 1 tsp finely chopped onions, 2-3 pieces of finely chopped green chillies and two teaspoon of egg mixture on the minced meat.
Now fold the paratha as per the pictures, making it well enclosed packets.
Heat the oil in the pan.
Place one paratha in hot oil, folded side down first.
Once it starts browning, flip it over and fry the other side.
Flip it once more, this time slightly press the edges of the paratha for even cooking and fry till golden brown. Flip it and fry the other side till golden brown.
Repeat the steps till the dough last.
To serve
Serve the Mughlai paratha hot with ketchup or mustard sauce, with more sliced onion and lime wedges and with dry spicy potato curry.
Recipe by Honest Cooking at https://honestcooking.com/paratha-spiced-meat-filled-flatbreads/