Homemade Bitter Gourd Peel Stuffed Paratha Recipe

Course : Main

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 4 nos

Rest Time: 60 minutes

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients For Stuffing :

• 500 gms karela/bitter gourd peel

• 1 onion chopped finely

• 2 green chillies chopped finely

• 1 tsp chopped ginger

• 3 tbsp besan/gram flour

• 1 tsp chilli powder

• 2 tsp coriander powder

• 1 tsp jeera /cumin powder

• 1 tsp garam masala

• salt as per taste

• some chopped coriander leaves

Ingredients For Dough :

• 2 cups wheat /multigrain flour

• 1 tsp salt

• oil for cooking

Method:

1. Peel the karela then sprinkle some salt on the peel. Allow it to rest for about an hour to remove the bitterness from it.

2. Wash the peel in water 3-4 times then remove in a muslin cloth and squeeze off all the water form it.

3. Take a bowl add the squeezed karela peel and all the above ingredients excluding the salt.

4. Take 2 cups wheat atta in a bowl add 1 tsp salt and knead into a very soft dough adding water as required. Allow it to rest for 15-20 minutes.

5. Add salt in the karela peel mixture just before you want to make the parathas otherwise the mixture will become watery.

6. Make equal size balls of the dough. Similarly make a little smaller size balls of the karela stuffing.

7. Take one dough ball dust some flour and with a rolling pin roll into a small chapati. place one karela stuffing ball on to it and close it by bringing all the edges of the ball together. Dust some more flour and roll into a medium thickness paratha.

8. Heat a tawa then place the rolled paratha on it and allow it to cook for a second then flip sprinkle some oil all over it and cook for a second. Flip again sprinkle some oil and cook again till brown spots are seen all over on both sides.

9. Remove on a plate and repeat the process till all the dough is used up.

   Enjoy these parathas with some yogurt .