Rajasthani Churi ka paratha/ Korme ka paratha- a delicious flatbread made with soaked yellow lentil,wheat flour and few basic Indian spices
Churi ka paratha or korme ka partha is a specialty from Rajasthan. I leaned this from a Marwadi friend of mine who is an amazing cook. As Rajasthan happens to be a dry state so they use lots of gram flour, sun dried vegetable and lentil in their cuisine. They made so many types of delicious kadhi and curries with the use of gram flour and lentil or lentil flours.
Different varieties of parathas and poori’s are also made regularly using gram flour/besan ,papad and lentils and served with curd and pickles. The lentil parathas are so healthy and delicious that there will be absolutely no need of any vegetable as side dish.
These paratha’s taste great with just a cup of tea or with some pickle and chutney. These healthy Churi ka paratha can also be packed in kids tiffin boxes with some curd and chutney.
What is Churi Ka Paratha
This lentil paratha is popular as churi /choori ka paratha OR korme ka paratha. This is a very traditional recipe of Rajasthani cuisine.In olden days all the daals are crushed at home using the stone chakki. Whole gram and lentils are milled at home to make gram flour/besan, daliya and whole lentils are crushed to make split moong daal.
While doing so lots of semi crushed coarse daal powder is left which is called as daal ka Korma/churi. This daal ki churi/korma is soaked in water and added in the flour to make paratha’s.
But now no body is grinding daal at home so instead of using the leftover semi crushed daal , yellow lentil is soaked and used to make churi/ korme ka paratha. If there is some flour mill near your house then you can try semi grinding some whole green lentil/moong daal there else use yellow lentil,both ways it taste awesome.
These churi paratha’s are best served with dahi ke aloo, aam ki launji , ker sangri ki sabzi or just with some pickle or chutney.
Do Try making these Delicious Rajasthani recipes-
- Gatte Ki Sabzi
- Mirchi Ka Kutta
- Papad boondi ki Sabzi
- Ker Sangri Ki Sabzi
- Khatta Meetha Kaddu
- Rajasthani Panchmel Daal
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Rajasthani Churi Ka Paratha
Ingredients
- 50 gm Yellow Lentil/Moong Daal
- 200 gm Wheat flour/ Multigrain aata
- 3 tbsp Cooking oil
- 2 tsp Fennel Seeds/ Saunf
- 2 tbsp Chili flakes/ Kuti laal Mirch
- 1/3 Asafoetida/Hing
- 2 tsp Whole Coriander/ Dhaniya Kuta Crushed
- 1/3 Turmeric/ Haldi
- Salt/ Namak
- 2 Green Chili/hari mirch
- 1/4 cup dhaniya
- enough ghee or oil
Instructions
- Wash and soak moong daal in ebnough water for 20 minutes.ORSoak moong daal ka korma in enough water for 15 minutes
- Take a big wide bowl and add the soaked daal or korma ,wheat flour ,all the spices ,3 tbsp oil, chopped green chili and fresh coriander
- Add water and make a mdium soft dough , cover with a lid and let it rest for 15 minutes.
- Make equal size balls from the dough and keep aside ,covered with a moist cloth.
- Take a dough ball ,dust with dry flour and roll to make a thin chapati.
- heat a tawa /griddle and put the rolled paratha over it and dry roast from both the sides on medium heat.
- then apply some oil or ghee and roast from both side by pressing with a spatula till nice golden in colour.
- Remove from the tawa and serve hot.
- Surving suggestion- serve with dahi ki aloo, aam ki launji or with any tangy pickle or chutney
Shail Kumar says
I can not have any wheat or corn flour or wheat product like maida & Sooji. So can I use rice flour instead in this recipe?
Thank you for your help
anjanaskc says
If you can easily roll Rice paratha then can surely try , You can also use gram flour or maize flour/ makki ka aata instead of wheat flour