Chilli Parotta
Photo and recipe Courtesy: Aarthi (my sister)Laccha Paratas are called Malabar Parotta/ Kerala Parotta or just Barotta in South India. Here is the Chettinad chilli barotta recipe.. I love this dish. You can easily alter this dish to suit your taste. This is the best way to make a quick tiffin in your style!
Ingredients:
1 onion - cut long
1 tomato - cut long
1 capsicum/ bell pepper (small) - cut long
1 handful frozen diced carrots+peas (optional)
salt to taste
chilli powder 1/2 tsp (vary according to taste)
turmeric 1/4 tsp
Ginger-garlic paste (optional)
1 tbsp masala chilli sauce / tom-chi sauce (optional)
2 slit green chillies
1 tsp garam masala
3 big parottas (store bought - frozen)
2 tsp oil
Heat the frozen paratas on a griddle and roast till done. Tear the parottas into thick strips. Keep aside.
Keep the burner in high flame and stir ingredients quickly.
Add oil in kadai. Add ginger-garlic paste (optional). Saute well
Add green chillies, onions, saute till transparent, stir in bell peppers. Saute till crisp
Add tomatoes, saute till soft
Add salt, turmeric, chilli powder. Mix well
Add garam masala, tomato chilli sauce (optional)
Stir in the parotta pieces and give it a good stir till it blends with all the spices.
Serve hot with onion raita.
Note: Parotta can be substituted with chappatis or naans.
To make this dish Indo-Chinese, substitue garam masala, chilli powder and turmeric with red chilli sauce, green chilli sauce and Soy sauce!
11 comments:
mmm this looks great with the veggies... Yup, should be easy to alter to suit us... nice pic...
thnx ramya:)
Looks spicy and nice :)
thnx lakshmi!
I would love to substitute this with chapatthis as you said since i avoid using AP flour to max extent. With chappathis, i think this will be a full fledged energy packed dish..
my most favourite dear..yummy too
Hi,
First time here...You have a kool space here.
Chili Barotta reminds my hostel days...miss it.
Wish to give it a try very soon. Thnaks for sharing the recipe.
Infact all ur recipes are great.
looks spicy n delicious...u have gud collection of recipes...will keep followin..thc 4 sharing
so sweet, thnx subhie!
Thnx malar, shama, srihari
worked out great! replaced the green peppers with red peppers which is pretty awesome!
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