Lauki Paratha / Sorakkai Paratha

Name: Lauki Paratha / Sorakkai Paratha
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 8-piece
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 & 1/2 cups Wheat flour atta /; 1 cup Lauki bottle gourd / , grated; 2 Potato , boiled; 1 tsp Red chilli powder; 1 tsp Garam masala powder; 1/4 tsp Black pepper powder (optional); pinch Asafoetida / Hing – As needed; 1 tsp Ajwain / Omam; Salt - As needed

Pavithra Mani Iyer @cook_7816041

Bangalore

If you find your Chapathi to be very hard,then you can try making Lauki paratha.
They have a lot of water content in them.The water oozing out from them helps in making soft chapathi's. But do not extend the waiting period for a long time after preparing the dough as they tend to become sticky.
The paratha is so tasty that you can relish it with just raita.
I had made lauki paratha with a simple Onion-tomato gravy.
As a starter i had made cream of baby corn soup and the recipe of that would be updated in a separate blog.

Pavithra Mani Iyer @cook_7816041

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Ingredients

30 mins

8-piece

1 & 1/2 cupsWheat flour atta /
1 cupLauki bottle gourd / , grated
2Potato , boiled
1 tspRed chilli powder
1 tspGaram masala powder
1/4 tspBlack pepper powder (optional)
pinchAsafoetida / Hing – As needed
1 tspAjwain / Omam
Salt - As needed

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Steps

30 mins

1

Pressure cook potato for 3 whistles, peel off the skin, mash it.
2

Peel the skin of lauki, Cut into small piece, remove the spongy thing, seeds in the middle. Grate it, keep aside.
3

In a mixing bowl, take all the ingredients and mix. No need to add water. The lauki will leave out water as you knead, so keep kneading until the mixture forms a dough without cracks.
4

Make equal sized balls out of it. Dust with more atta or maida and roll out to parathas.
5

Heat tawa and cook the parathas side by side as you roll it. Drizzle some oil over hot tawa and cook the rolled parathas. Cook in medium flame, gently pressing with the ladle now and then to ensure even cooking.