I have been freaking out on Mint Parathas almost on a daily basis the past few days. Back to Back. I love rotis and prefer them any day to rice and at the moment being home alone, making a few of these and leaving kneaded dough refrigerated for the next day seems so refreshing.
I am a poor eater, I could have just two of them with some simple side and salad. But if the entire family is home, then I would imagine myself hardly getting one as my boyzone just love them and it has to be with a non-veg curry and a salad or a raitha to dip in.
I have flattened them the same way one would a normal chapathi, then I have added a nice spread of butter over one side of the uncooked chapathi and then rolled them as one would try to make a paper fan and then twist the whole fan shaped strip as a ball and flatten it out once more and roll them out. The zig-zag manner in which the dough was shaped helps to give them these layers.
A friend recently shared with me how she would lightly toast a few mint leaves on a hot griddle to obtain a sort of burnt appearance to the mint. Once the mint dried out and were cooled, they were crushed and laid on a work surface.
When the hot parathas came off the griddle, the parathas were crushed by both hands in a clapping manner with the paratha in the centre and rolled in this crushed dried mint. You can add a bit of butter or oil over the parathas as they cook, so this helps as the sticking agent to allow the crushed mint to cling to them.
I hadn't dabbed it in oil or butter that well as I was already apprehensive about the butter spread over the parathas before shaping them into a fan. So not much of the dried herb stuck to its surface.
They were just irresistible!
Made with Atta. Extremely healthy and very tasty. To be had hot rght off the tawa with a simple pickle/achaar and raitha.
Do enjoy this beautiful song from the eighties sung by Billy Ocean. I remember recording this and making a cassette out of this for my husband with many of the love songs from the 80s...Where did that beautiful era go by?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEF_eU95ypw
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