Leftover Rice Stuffed Paratha Recipe

Simple plain rice is not a favourite recipe at my home, unless it is served with some spicy accompaniments like dal, rajma, chole, sambhar or some curry. Like, last week I made this simple rice with some cumin, turmeric, red chilli powder, potatoes & salt for my nephew (because he is a toddler!!); he sniffed it, tasted a bite, made a funny face and went back to playing! Basically, he didn’t like the taste of simple yellow rice!! So, there I had a leftover which needed to be tweaked, re-cooked & served to be loved by all. So, I came up with this interesting Leftover Rice Stuffed Paratha. I am been cautions about the calories here, so I have used little oil for cooking, you can of course shallow fry it as per your liking. Also, you can top up the paratha with a gallop of butter if you like! Yum!

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You will need:

1 Cup Leftover Rice

1 Medium Sized Onion Chopped

1 Green Chilli Chopped

1 Tbsp Coriander Leaves Chopped

1 .5 Tsp Red Chilli Powder (or as per taste)

1/2 Tsp Coriander Seeds Powder

2-3 Tsp Oil per Paratha

Wheat Flour Dough as required

Salt to taste

Serving: Makes about 4 Parathas

Steps to Leftover Rice Stuffed Paratha:

1. In a mixing bowl, add leftover rice & mash the rice with your hand or in a blender.
2. Now add in onion, green chillies, coriander leaves & mix well.
3. Add spices – salt, red chilli powder, coriander seeds powder & mix again.
4. Keep this stuffing aside.
5. For rolling paratha, on a flat surface take about tennis ball size of dough & with a rolling pin, roll the dough till half way. Use dry flour to roll as needed.
6. Place about 2-3 Tbsp stuffing kept aside at the centre of the rolled dough.
7. Now start sealing the dough to form a round ball like shape, pressing the stuffing in.
8. With the help of dry flour & rolling pin start rolling the stuffed dough using very light pressure & keep  sealing the ends with fingers as you roll.
9. Quickly run a knife below the paratha in case it might have got stuck at the base.
10. Heat a pan/tawa, drizzle oil.
11. Place the paratha in the pan carefully.
12. On medium flame let it cook for 30-40 seconds.
13. Now flip the paratha with a spatula.You will see some light brown spots.
14. Apply oil on one side & after 30-40 seconds flip it again.
15. Press lightly with spatula & cook for another 20-30 seconds.
16. Repeat the process other side – apply oil, flip over, press gently with spatula for few seconds.
17. Turn the flame on high & cook for 5-8 seconds.
18. Flip again, cook for 5-8 seconds & turn off the gas.
19. Paratha is ready to be served.
20. Serve with curd & top it up butter (optional).

Important Pointers:

• Since I used rice which already had some spices in it, I didn’t add lot of spices. But if you are using plain white rice, then add turmeric powder & increase the quantity of other spices.
• I have used very little oil for cooking. You can shallow fry it too.
• Top up Paratha with Ghee or Butter if desired.

If you want to see how I made this Ginger Lemonade, then head over to video recipe by clicking this link:

https://www.youtube.com/v/fFpBvc9w4t4?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata

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