Sattu Paratha Recipe | Fried Bengal Gram Flour Paratha

Sattu is a flour prepared from fried Bengal grams. Sattu Paratha is a famous North Indian Recipe which is prepared with a stuffing of Sattu inside Paratha.There are other variants to this recipe like Sattu ki Kachauri , Litti etc

Ingredients:

500 gms Whole wheat flour

300 gms Sattu flour

3 Tablespoon Ghee or Oil

3-4 Garlic cloves

1/2 inches ginger

1 chopped green chilly

1 medium sized onion chopped finely

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tbsp spices from mango pickle mixed with oil

1/2 tsp Ajwain seeds

Salt as per taste

Method:

Mix oil and salt to the wheat flour
Start adding little water at a time and knead the wheat to a soft non-sticky dough , just like Roti
Put onion, pickle masala , chilly , salt , ajwain seeds into sattu flour and mix well
Grate ginger and garlic and mix into the sattu flour
Add little water and mix everything with hands properly
From the wheat dough take handfull of dough and shape in form of balls
Take one such ball and apply little wheat flour for dusting
Press the balls to small disc shape
Put the sattu mix in the centre of disc
Now keep the filled disc in hands and try to close it out to cover the Sattu filling inside
Now spread and roll using rolling pin in large circular Parathas
Heat out griddle/tawa and put the Paratha on top of it
After few seconds turn to another side , apply ghee and spread across
Turn again and apply and spread ghee on other side
Cook on both sides till it turns golden brown.
Serve hot with coriander chutney and tomato sauce