Name: CHECKER BOARD PARATHA recipe by Ruchi Shah at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: FOR GREEN DOUGH : 2 cup Chopped Fresh Spinach; 1 cup Fresh Coriander; Few mint leaves; 2 Green Chillies (More or less , according to your taste); 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1/2 tsp Lemon Juice; 2-3 cup Wheat Flour Or as needed to knead dough with puree (fOR EACH color); 3 tsp Oil to add in dough (for each color dough); Oil for roasting; Salt , as per taste; FOR RED DOUGH : 1 small chopped Beetroot; 2/3 cup chopped Carrot; 1-2 Fresh Red Chilli or 1-2 Dry Red Chilli or 2/3 tsp Red chilli Powder; 1 tsp cumin seeds

Ingredients Serving: 4

FOR GREEN DOUGH : 2 cup Chopped Fresh Spinach
1 cup Fresh Coriander
Few mint leaves
2 Green Chillies (More or less , according to your taste)
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp Lemon Juice
2-3 cup Wheat Flour Or as needed to knead dough with puree (fOR EACH color)
3 tsp Oil to add in dough (for each color dough)
Oil for roasting
Salt , as per taste
FOR RED DOUGH : 1 small chopped Beetroot
2/3 cup chopped Carrot
1-2 Fresh Red Chilli or 1-2 Dry Red Chilli or 2/3 tsp Red chilli Powder
1 tsp cumin seeds

Instructions

Wash Spinach leaves, coriander throughly . Add cumin seeds , green chillies, salt and lemon juice. Add minimum water and make a smooth puree. Add wheat flour , salt and Oil to knead a smooth dough. Dough should not be very sticky.
If it is add some more flour.. Apply some Oil on palm and knead it to make a smooth dough. Same way make red dough..
Break equal sized red and green dough and smoothen them to make balls. Roll a green and a red ball separately using wheat flour to a medium thick flatbread.
Place the two coloured flatbreads over each other and cut around the edges to give a square shape. Remove the cut edges and place them over each other...Cut equidistant strips of the rectangular flatbreads.
Remove the strips of top colour. Put one horizontal strip of green colour on the vertical strips of pink colour. Place one end of the horizontal strip under the first vertical strip and apply water on it so that they stick.
Now push the horizontal strip under the third and fifth vertical strip and stick using water. The first row gets completed this way.
For the second row, stick the horizontal green strip on the first pink strip hugging the top row so that there are no gaps. Now over turn the 2nd, 4th and 6th pink strip (alternate strips).
Apply water on the green strip and then turn the pink strips straight over it, leaving no gaps. This way second row is completed. Do the third row same as the first row. (alternate rows in similar fashion) Do the fourth row same as second.
Complete the entire flatbread in the similar fashion. Normally all the horizontal strips do not get used. If the edges are uneven, shape them.
Lift the flatbread gently and transfer to the griddle. Roast it on the hot griddle on both the sides using some oil, till it’s cooked and light brown spots are seen.

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