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Bathua Aloo Paratha

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Bathua-Aloo Paratha (Bathua Paratha) is one of the fond memories I have from my childhood. Though I love any sort of stuffed paratha, but when it comes to Bathua-Aloo, they are special. This recipe is also popular as Bathua Paratha. This is the most relished bathua recipe of all. One reason could be Bathua is a seasonal green, available only for a short duration in winter season. The less the availability of product the more you enjoy it. Is that true for you too?

After a long time, I visited India in winter time and got to enjoy the delicacies made with Bathua like Bathua Raita, Bathua paratha, Bathua bhuji, Bathua Kadhi and many more.

Bathua-Aloo Paratha served with yogurt, green mint chutney, tamatar-ki-sabji and lime from Enhance Your Palate

Bathua Paratha can be enjoyed by itself or with some condiments like green chutney, yogurt or pickle. When it comes to me, I really enjoy it as a meal served with sweet and sour tamatar-ki-sabji, yogurt, green chutney and pickle.

Health Benefits of Bathua

Bathua is known to be a weed but they are loaded with numerous health benefits. Its high fiber content and laxative properties help cure constipation. Juice made from bathua leave keep the digestive system health and also known to have blood purifying characteristics. Bathua leaves are a rich source of amino acids, vitamin A & C along with many crucial minerals, such as calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc.

Scientific or botanical name for Bathua leaves is Chenopodium Album , however they are known by many other names like White Goosefoot, Goosefoot, allgood, Pigweed, Lambsquarters, Lamb’s-quarters, Wild Spinach. They have several names in Hindi also like Cheel Bhaji, Chill Bhaji and Bettusag.

Ingredients for Bathua Aloo Paratha

For Bathua Aloo Filling

Ingredients - Bathua Aloo Filling by Enhance Your Palate
  • Bathua – 500 gms
  • Potato Aloo – 250gms
  • Green Chillies – 2-3
  • Ginger- 1 inch piece
  • Oil – 1 tbs
  • Spices
    • Asafetida (Hing) – 1/8 tsp
    • Salt – 1 tsp
    • Red chilli powder– ½ tsp
    • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
    • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
    • Crushed fennel seeds – 1 tbs

For Dough

Ingredients - Bathua Aloo Paratha by Enhance Your Palate
  • Whole wheat flour – 2 cups
  • Oil – 1 tsp
  • Water or milk – 1.5 cup
  • Salt – 1 tsp or as per taste

Recipe for Bathua-Aloo Paratha

Pre-Work to Prepare Ingredients

  1. Bathua comes in bunch. So, pluck the leaves from the stems and wash thoroughly. This takes a lot of time, but the end result is far rewarding. Then blanch the leaves by adding them to boiling water for 5 minutes and straining out or steaming in instant pot for 0 minutes at low pressure.
Blanched Bathua from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Potatoes can be boil in pressure cooker or instant pot. Time needed to boil varies with the size of the potato. Once boiled, peel the skin and mash the potatoes and keep aside. 
Boiled potatoes in a bowl - Ingredient for Bathua Aloo Paratha recipe from Enhance Your Palate

Steps to make Bathua-Aloo Filling:

  1. Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, hing, green chillies and ginger. 
Hing, Jeera Ginger in heated oil in a pac - Step from Bathus Aloo recipe by Enhance your Palate
  1. Sauté for few seconds and then add blanched bathua leaves and mashed boiled potatoes.
Step image for Bathua-Aloo filling recipe
  1. Continue sautéing until leaves are a little dry. This will take around 15 to 20 minutes, keep stirring in intervals  for even roasting of filling. Switch off the heat and add all the spices. 
Step image for Bathua-Aloo filling recipe
  1. Mix all the spices and keep it aside to cool it down. Start working on the dough while the filling is still cooling.
Step_04 Bathua Aloo Filling Recipe from Enhance Your Palate

Steps for making the Dough:

  1. Take flour in a deep bowl or flat dish. Add ½ tsp salt.
  1. Make a whole in the center of flour and start adding warm milk little by little. You can use water also, but I use milk because it makes the dough extra soft.
Dough and milk ready for kneading - Paratha recipe step by Enhance Your Palate
  1. Start incorporating the liquid into the dry flour.
Bathua Aloo Paratha recipe Step by Enhance Your Palate
  1. Once all the dry flour is wet, start kneading using you knuckles.
  • Paratha Dough Step from Enhance Your Palate
  • Paratha Dough Step 04 from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Keep kneading until you get a smooth texture. The more you knead, more glutenous it becomes. This typically take 3 to 5 minutes.
Paratha Dough Preperation Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Once you get the smooth texture of the dough, drop a few drops of oil, knead and bring it together. In the end dough needs to be softer then the roti dough.
Parahta Dough Preparation Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Knead it one last time and cover it. Let it rest for 15 minutes.
Paratha Dough_Prep Step for Bahtua Aloo Paratha Recipe from Ehance Your Palate

Steps for making Stuffed Paratha:

  1. While the dough is resting, divide the cold filling into equal balls.  Increase or decrease the number of balls based on the quantity  and size of paratha you want to make.
  2. Next divide the dough into lemon size balls. For a nicely filled paratha the bathua aloo filling ball should be about 1.5 times in size compared to the dough balls.
Stuffed Paratha Recipe Step image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Start pre-heating the griddle on medium heat. 
  2. Take one ball of dough and roll it into a 3” flat circle which needs to be thick in the center and thin on the edges. 
Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Now take the rolled dough circle into your hand in a concave or in a little bowl shape. Place one ball of filling into it. Press it to make sure it hugs the dough nicely.
Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Start getting together the edges of the dough towards the center to close the filling inside the dough. 
  • Stuffed Parahta Rolling Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Twist it if there is any extra dough, then tear it apart to be sure that the rolled paratha will not become very doughy in the center. 
  • Stuffed Parahta Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Now press it lightly to flatten it out, dust it into a dry flour and start rolling out gently with light hands. 
  • Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Continue rolling till you reached the desired size and thickness. Rolled parantha neither to be very thin like roti nor to be very thick.
Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Place the rolled Bathua Aloo Paratha on the preheated griddle and cook until it start getting little brown spots on the bottom.
  • Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Flip it and Smear ghee and cook the Paratha until it is cooked through to make it golden brown and crisp. 
  • Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1. Keep flipping the Paratha during the above process. Once done, remove from the tawa and transfer to a perforated surface to make sure it doesn’t get soggy because of its own steam.
Stuffed Paratha Roasting_final Image from Enhance Your Palate
  1.  Proceed to make the remaining parathas in the similar way and serve hot. 
  2. A perfectly rolled stuffed paratha is the one which has a crispy top layer and evenly distributed filling layer in between.
Perfectly_Filled_Bathua aloo Parantha from Enhance Your Palate

How to Roll and Roast Stuffed Parathas?

You can also watch the video below to learn to roll and roast the stuffed parathas. Though in this case my filling is Bathua-aloo, but the same process works for any other dry filling such as matar, paneer, aloo, etc. You can also substitute any other greens instead of Bathua.

Serve the Bathua Aloo Paratha for a special weekend brunch with dry matar paneer, sweet and sour tamatar-ki-sabji, pickle, yogurt, cilantro mint chutney and with an extra dollop of butter.

Bathua Aloo Paratha served with various acompaniments

How to freeze parathas for later use?

  1. Cook the parathas’ only half, i.e. until the stage where you start putting oil. Keep on some type of a mesh to allow steam to escape and let them cool down to room temperature
Half cooked bathua aloo paratha for freezing
  1. Once the parathas are cooled down to room temperature, then prepare for storage by stacking them. Separate each paratha with a parchment paper.
Freezing bathua aloo paratha
  1. Lastly, put them in a ziplock and then store them in freezer. You can keep them in freezer for up to 3 months.
Freezing and Storing Stuffed Parathas
  1. When you are ready to consume the frozen paratha, pre-heat the griddle on  medium-low heat and place one frozen paratha (no need to thaw) on the pre-heated griddle. 
  2. Flip it after about one minute when the bottom side is thawed. 
  3. Now increase the heat to medium-high and start smearing with ghee or oil. Keep rotating on griddle with gentle and even pressure until both sides become golden brown. 

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Bathua-Aloo Paratha served with yogurt, green-mint chutney, tamatar-ki-sabji and lime.
5 from 3 votes

Bathua-Aloo Paratha

Bathua-Aloo Paratha is an exotic Indian flat bread recipe, with cooked bathua-aloo filling inside a crisp whole wheat paratha. Bathua Paratha can be enjoyed by itself or with some condiments like green chutney, yogurt or pickle. Bathua is known to be a weed but they are loaded with numerous health benefits.
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Prep Time1 hr
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time1 hr 30 mins
Course: Breakfast, Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Diet: Hindu, Vegetarian
Keyword: Bathua Aloo Paratha, Bathua Paratha, Stuffed Paratha
Servings: 10
Calories: 180kcal
Author: Rupali Agarwal

Equipment

  • Tawa
  • Griddle

Ingredients

For Bathua Aloo Filling

  • 500 gms Bathua
  • 250 gms Potatoes Aloo
  • 15 gms Green Chilies 2 or 3 finely diced
  • 5 ms Ginger 1 inch piece finely diced
  • 4 tbsp Oil

Spices

  • 1/8 tsp Asafetida Hing
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Red chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp Cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp Fennel seeds Crushed

For Dough

  • 2 cups Whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 1.5 cup Milk or water
  • 1 tsp Salt or as per taste

Instructions

Pre-Work to Prepare Ingredients

  • Blanch the leaves by adding them to boiling water for 5 minutes and straining out or steaming in instant pot for 0 minutes at low pressure
    Blanched Bathua from Enhance Your Palate
  • Boil potatoes in pressure cooker or instant pot. Time needed to boil varies with the size of the potato. Once boiled, peel the skin and mash the potatoes. Keep aside.
    Boiled potatoes in a bowl - Ingredient for Bathua Aloo Paratha recipe from Enhance Your Palate

Steps to make Bathua-Aloo Filling:

  • Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, hing, green chillies and ginger
    Hing, Jeera Ginger in heated oil in a pac - Step from Bathus Aloo recipe by Enhance your Palate
  • Sauté for few seconds and then add blanched bathua leaves and mashed boiled potatoes.
    Step image for Bathua-Aloo filling recipe
  • Continue sautéing until leaves are a little dry. This will take 15 to 20 minutes, but keep staring for even roasting or filling. Switch off the heat and add all the spices.
    Step image for Bathua-Aloo filling recipe
  • Mix all the spices and keep it aside to cool it down. Start working on the dough while the filling is still cooling.
    Step_04 Bathua Aloo Filling Recipe from Enhance Your Palate

Steps for making the Dough:

  • Take flour in a deep bowl or flat dish. Add ½ tsp salt. Make a whole in the center of flour and start adding warm milk little by little. You can use water also, but I use milk because it makes the dough extra soft.
    Dough and milk ready for kneading - Paratha recipe step by Enhance Your Palate
  • Start incorporating the liquid into the dry flour.
    Bathua Aloo Paratha recipe Step by Enhance Your Palate
  • Once all the dry flour is wet, start kneading using you knuckles.
    Paratha Dough Step 04 from Enhance Your Palate
  • Keep kneading until you get a smooth texture. The more knead, more glutenous it becomes. This typically take 3 to 5 minutes.
    Paratha Dough Preperation Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Once you get the smooth texture of the dough, drop a few drops of oil. In the end dough needs to be softer then the roti dough.
    Parahta Dough Preparation Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Knead it one last time and cover it. Let it rest for 15 minutes.
    Paratha Dough_Prep Step for Bahtua Aloo Paratha Recipe from Ehance Your Palate

Steps for making Stuffed Paratha:

  • Divide the cold filling into equal balls. Next divide the dough into lemon size balls. For a nicely filled paratha the bathua aloo filling ball should be about 1.5 times in size compared to dough balls.
    Stuffed Paratha Recipe Step image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Start pre-heating the griddle on medium heat. Take one ball of dough and roll it into a 3” flat circle which needs to be thick in the center and thin on the edges.
    Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Now take the rolled dough circle into your hand in a concave shape. Place one ball of filling into it. Press it to make sure it hugs the dough nicely.
    Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Start getting together the edges of the dough towards the center to close the filling inside the dough.
    Stuffed Parahta Rolling Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Twist it and if there is any extra dough, then tear it apart to be sure that the rolled paratha will not become very doughy in the center.
    Stuffed Parahta Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Now press it lightly to flatten it out, dust it into a dry flour and start rolling out gently with light hands.
    Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Continue rolling till you reached the desired size and thickness.
    Stuffed Paratha Rolling Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Place the rolled Bathua Aloo Paratha on the preheated griddle and cook until it start getting little brown spots on the bottom.
    Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Flip it and Smear ghee and cook the Paratha until it is cooked through tp make it golden brown and crisp.
    Stuffed Paratha Roasting Step Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Keep flipping the Paratha during the above process. Once done, remove from the tawa and transfer to a perforated surface to make sure it doesn’t get soggy because of its own steam.
    Stuffed Paratha Roasting_final Image from Enhance Your Palate
  • Proceed to make the remaining parathas in the similar way and serve hot.
    Perfectly_Filled_Bathua aloo Parantha from Enhance Your Palate

Video

Nutrition Facts
Bathua-Aloo Paratha
Amount Per Serving
Calories 180 Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Cholesterol 2mg1%
Sodium 526mg23%
Potassium 515mg15%
Carbohydrates 24g8%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 1g1%
Protein 6g12%
Vitamin A 4770IU95%
Vitamin C 17.2mg21%
Calcium 102mg10%
Iron 3.3mg18%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  1. Suman

    March 3, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    Where do you get Bathua in the US?

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    • Rupali Agarwal

      March 7, 2019 at 8:20 am

      Hey Suman, Bathua has started showing up in some cities occasionally at Indian stores.

      Reply

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