Ingredients

• 4 cups - wheat flour (atta)
• 1-2 cups - boiled green peas
• 1 tsp - red chilli powder
• 1 tsp - garam masala
• 1 tsp - jeera
• 1 tsp - dhaniya/coriander powder
• 1 tsp - amchur powder
• 1 pinch - asafoetida/hing
• Water as required
• Vegetable oil
• Salt to taste

How to Make Matar ka Paratha

• Pre-preparation:
• Sieve wheat flour with salt.
• Add water in it and mix it very well.
• Make a smooth dough.
• Put green peas in pressure cooker and take 1 whistle.
• Add some vegetable oil in a frying pan.
• Add jeera, hing and coriander powder stir it.
• Now add boiled green peas.
• Add red chilli powder, garam masala and amchur powder.
• Cover it and cook it for 10-15 mins on medium low heat.
• Turn off the gas.
• Mash the peas with the potato masher.
• Preparation:
• Make small rolls of dough.
• Roll it into small chapatti.
• Put 1.5 tsp of mashed green peas and then fold it towards centre till the edges meet.
• Seal the edges by pressing the chapatti.
• Now again roll it like chapatti (around 8 inches in diameter).
• Do not apply the pressure while rolling it.
• Pre-heat tava on high flame.
• Put the paratha on tava and then turn it and apply some oil on paratha.
• Repeat the same process for the other side.
• Cook it from both the sides at med-high flame until it becomes golden brown in colour.
• Serve it hot with green chutney/pickle or with some curry.