Stuffed Paratha / Daal stuffed parantha

Last week my friend Sayani shared her tiffin with me...It was an excellent stuffed paratha with chutney. So I gave it a try in the weekend with sayani's recipe and the result was a palatable dish of paratha and dahi aloo( potatoes with curd). Stuffed paranthas are quite popular in India and we stuff our paranthas with all sorts of stuffings: Daal(lentils), mashed potatoes(aloo parantha), Raddish( muli parantha), Keema (minced meat) and so on.Here's how I prepared mine:
1 cup Bengal Grams
2 Tbs oil
3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/2 red chilly powder
1/4 tsp haldi
Paste: 4 chillies
1/2 inch ginger
3 garlic cloves
1 onion
salt to taste

Soak the daal overnite. Make a paste. One may also boil  the daal with water and salt and a little turmeric powder.Then mash.

Heat 1 Tbs oil in a pan . Fry the paste of daal. To this add garam masala powder, haldi powder(turmeric powder),red chilly powder, salt and the paste of ginger, garlic,onion and chilly. Keep frying till the mixture is pretty dry.

Next knead the all purpose flour with 1 Tbs oil, a little salt and water to make a dough. Now take some dough, make a cup and put some daal mixture inside. Pat and roll out a parantha with a rolling pin.

Heat oil in a skillet and fry out the paranthas. One may also deep fry these and turn them into puris.


9.12.12:Well here's a pic of the Methi Paratha I made last sunday:

Crochet bag

I always wanted to make a crochet bag joining a few granny squares. As I was looking for some designs for the squares I came across a "Crochet African Flower Granny square" design on you tube. I followed the instructions to create the following Granny square:

I had to crochet 13 such squares to form the bag which I made. Larger the bag more the number of squares.Well then the squares were arranged in a pattern to form a bag:

Next part was to join the squares . I used the crochet hook itself to join the squares ,though one can use the needle too.

This part was followed by the handle . I crochet a strong handle and affixed it with the bag. The final part was to line the bag with some matching cloth and sew a zipper.

I shall carry the bag to my workplace tomorrow and I really hope my friends and colleagues will like it!


5th May,2013: My sister in law saw this and wanted me to crochet one for her too. So I am making one for her. Will upload the pic soon.

7 June ,2013: I have completed my sis- in -laws bags. Will visit her this Sunday to hand it over. Combination is different this time.

And the shape is different too:

I hope sis- in- law likes and uses it Now making another for a friend of mine. In pink and grey. Let's see how that turns out. Will upload its pic too! Till then, bye bye.
25th June, 2014: And here's my bag in grey n pink: