easy methi paratha recipe | methi ka paratha | fenugreek paratha recipe

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 40 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Total time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 8 Servings
  • Category: paratha
  • Cuisine: punjabi

Ingredients

  • 2 cups wheat flour / atta
  • 1 cup methi leaves / fenugreek leaves (finely chopped)
  • ¼ cup curd / yogurt (fresh / sour)
  • ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
  • 1 tsp ginger paste
  • ½ tsp kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder
  • ¼ tsp cumin powder / jeera powder
  • salt to taste
  • ½ tsp carom seeds / ajwain
  • 2 tsp oil
  • water as required (to knead dough)
  • 5 tsp oil / ghee (for roasting)

Method

  1. firstly, in large mixing bowl take wheat flour and chopped methi leaves.
  2. also add ¼ cup of curd. curd helps to remove the bitterness of methi leaves.
  3. additionally, add spices and salt to taste.
  4. furthermore, add 2 tsp of oil and combine well.
  5. additionally, add some water and knead the dough.
  6. cover with moist cloth and rest for 30 minutes.
  7. now pinch a medium sized ball dough, roll and flatten it.
  8. also dust with some wheat flour.
  9. roll to 5 inches using rolling pin.
  10. additionally, grease with ghee or oil
  11. bundle it up and flatten to ball.
  12. further roll it in a thick circle like paratha.
  13. now on a hot tawa place the rolled paratha and cook for a minute.
  14. furthermore, when the base is partly cooked, flip the methi paratha.
  15. also brush oil / ghee and press slightly.
  16. finally, serve methi paratha with raita and pickle.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.