Name: Rajgira/Amaranth Paratha - Low Calorie Paratha. recipe by Dr.Shubhangi Kumbhar at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: Rajgira flour 1 cup; Potatoes 2, boiled and mashed; Ginger 11 g paste; Coriander leaves 2 tbsp; Red chilli powder ½ tbsp; Cumin seeds 1 tsp; Green chilli, 3 strips; Salt 1 tsp; Veg.oil 1 tbsp

ABOUT Rajgira/Amaranth Paratha - Low Calorie Paratha. RECIPE

There are very few recipes that are perfect for fasting days, and one among them is Rajgira Thalipeeth. Rajgira Paratha or Thalipeeth is one of healthy, easy and gluten free rajgira flour recipe suitable for fasting / for upvas. Normally for singhara, kuttu and rajgira paratha, puri is made with potato using as binding agent, so here I have used potato so this is great recipe for upvas as most of the upvas recipes revolves around potato. You can even make this for tiffin box if you working during upvaas. This Rajgira Thalipeeth is low calorie recipe as it's not fried as like puri. The recipe is very simple, delightful and needs few ingredients and 10 minutes of your time. A vegetarian, vegan and also a gluten free and high protein, low calorie Rajgira Thalipeeth / Paratha are made from healthy and nutritious rajgira flour dough along with the potato.

Ingredients Serving: 5

Rajgira flour 1 cup
Potatoes 2, boiled and mashed
Ginger 11 g paste
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Red chilli powder ½ tbsp
Cumin seeds 1 tsp
Green chilli, 3 strips
Salt 1 tsp
Veg.oil 1 tbsp

Instructions

Boil and mash the potatoes, in a mixing bowl place rajgira flour, boiled potatoes, cumin seeds, green chilli and ginger paste, salt, coriander leaves,and mix well with hand.
Now start adding water in small quantity and make a dough, be careful with water, add less, make soft dough.
Divide the dough into equal portion, grease hand with oil Place wet plastic bag or parchment paper on floor.
Take 1 ball from dough and spread dough on the plastic or parchment paper to form a Thalipeeth you can use rolling pin to roll paratha.
If dough sticks to your fingers, just add oil over paratha and spread dough in circular shape.
Heat a tava and place rolled paratha, cook in medium heat for a min or until light brown patches starts to appear.
Flip the paratha and apply oil or ghee, turn again and apply oil/ghee on another side, cook for another minute or until both sides gets cooked well.
Here, tasty, healthy and gluten free Rajgira Thalipeeth or Paratha is ready to serve.

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