Spinach roti is a healthy filling roti. Perfect lunch box recipe for kids and adults.
Today we have a toddler-friendly recipe from Sandhya - Sandhya's kitchen. I got connected with Sandhya through Social media. Sandhya is a sweet person, and being a mom she shares lots of tips. After starting toddler-friendly recipes, I thought of asking a few moms I met in this blogging world and Sandhya was one among them. I am a big fan of her food photography and her yummy dishes.
Sandhya gave me a few options, and Spinach roti was my favorite! Over to sandhya.
A fortnight ago, like every morning, after sending my elder one to school, I was sipping my morning tea. I was having some time for myself checking my emails, Facebook, news, and so forth. I read a message from Vidya about doing a guest post in her space, especially for toddlers. She is such a lovely and warm person, I have known e-socially over the last couple of months. How can I refuse? I had no second thought as I knew I was going to do that. Thank you for giving me all the time in the world and letting me do this interesting delight at my pace. We are a family who loves to have a mixed variety in a meal all through the week. I am sure, in this modern world, most people would. Our diet varies from Palakad South Indian cooking to a North Indian Paratha, Curry to a Pasta Bake, and what not? Guess this post will have a never-ending page if I have to list the elaborate choices we have. I have grown up eating my mum’s super soft flame-baked phulka’s literally every day, either for my school lunch or a meal at home. This has been one of my comfort meals any day. Undoubtedly we love our regular flame-baked phulka's with any dry vegetable curry or may b dal or paneer delicacies or if pulse arenas. We love spinach and its richness in iron is definitely something that makes us include it in our diet ritually.
When it comes to kids, getting my son V to eat his spinach in gravy or a molagutal ( south Indian lentil coconut curry) is slightly tricky. Knowing his love for Parathas, I decided to use them in the dough. It was a complete win-win situation, as all the required spinach is being consumed, and yet there were no complaints from the boy of 7 years. All that he tells me is that the Green Chapathi is Yummy. This is an easy way of sneaking the greens into our diet using whole wheat spinach phulka’s. Try out other parathA recipes in TMF Avocado paratha Aloo paratha Mixed veg paratha Palak Phulka Makes 20-22 Nos 
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Ingredients
- Wheat flour - 2 cups
- Spinach - 130g
- Water - 1/4 + few tablespoon
- Ginger - 1/2 inch
- Cumin powder - 1 tsp
- Salt - 3/4 tsp
- Mango amchur powder - 1/2 teaspoon optional
- Green Chilli - 1-2
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Ghee as desired
Instructions
- In a large pot, heat some water and add the spinach leaves along with some salt. Allow them to blanch for 5-6 minutes. Drain the hot water from the spinach leaves and run them under cold tap water.
- Grind the spinach leaves along with ginger and make a fine puree. This puree approximately came up to ¾ Cup. Add very little water if required. **In case you are not making it for kids, you can include green chillies to grind along with the spinach leaves.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the spinach puree, wheat flour, salt, cumin powder and mango powder and start kneading. Add a little more water as you knead until you achieve soft pliable dough. Splash the oil onto your hands and the remaining on the dough and knead until we have a clean bowl. Set the dough aside for 20 Minutes or so.
- Divide the dough into 20 equal portions. Pick one portion of dough at a time, dust some flour and spread them with the roller into thin phulkas. Heat a non-stick pan / tava and cook each phulka on the pan slightly for a few minutes until you start to see some bubbles. Flip the phulka and cook for another a minute or so . Now put the phulka on the flame carefully , watch them begin to puff up slowly. Flip it and allow it puff up on the other side as well. Remove from the flame and apply some ghee, if you like. Pile them into a casserole and serve them along with a paneer curry or just some yogurt and pickle.
- ** Incase you do not want to flame bake it, you may cook for a few more minutes on the pan. Put a gentle pressure using a flat spatula on each side and then set them aside in a casserole to keep it warm.
- When you are serving the kids, you may let them roll and enjoy it as it is or dunk it in some yogurt.
Ingredients: Wheat flour - 2 cups Spinach - 130g Water - 1/4 + few tablespoon Ginger - 1/2 inch Cumin powder - 1 teaspoon Salt - 3/4 teaspoon Mango (amchur powder) - 1/2 teaspoon optional Green Chilli - 1-2 Oil - 1 tablespoon Ghee as desired Method:
- In a large pot, heat some water and add the spinach leaves along with some salt. Allow them to blanch for 5-6 minutes. Drain the hot water from the spinach leaves and run them under cold tap water.
- Grind the spinach leaves along with ginger and make a fine puree. This puree approximately came up to ¾ Cup. Add very little water if required. **In case you are not making it for kids, you can include green chillies to grind along with the spinach leaves.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the spinach puree, wheat flour, salt, cumin powder and mango powder and start kneading. Add a little more water as you knead until you achieve soft pliable dough. Splash the oil onto your hands and the remaining on the dough and knead until we have a clean bowl. Set the dough aside for 20 Minutes or so.
- Divide the dough into 20 equal portions. Pick one portion of dough at a time, dust some flour and spread them with the roller into thin phulkas. Heat a non-stick pan / tava and cook each phulka on the pan slightly for a few minutes until you start to see some bubbles. Flip the phulka and cook for another a minute or so . Now put the phulka on the flame carefully , watch them begin to puff up slowly. Flip it and allow it puff up on the other side as well. Remove from the flame and apply some ghee, if you like. Pile them into a casserole and serve them along with a paneer curry or just some yogurt and pickle.
- ** In case you do not want to flame bake it, you may cook for a few more minutes on the pan. Put a gentle pressure using a flat spatula on each side and then set them aside in a casserole to keep it warm.
- When you are serving the kids, you may let them roll and enjoy it as it is or dunks it in some yogurt.
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Looks great!
Wow!! They look absolutely lovely nice way to sneak spinach for kids 🙂
social media are great sometimes, create something nice like this receipt and this post, thanks
Wowww. Ju st loved the idea.worth trying
Such a beautiful and colorful bread. Love the technique of "baking" over the gas. 🙂
Looks amazing!
Lovely color.. Healthy chapathi..Nice guest post
That puffed up roti looks so cute 🙂 Such a healthy option. Thank you for sharing
That photo of the puffed-up green flame-baking pillow is the best. Do these things stay so puffed up like this when you serve them?
Oh no.. Wish these flame baked pillows could stay .. See the images on the plate. That's how they would look. If you would want them puffed up , look for puri's.. They wud.
What a shame. The kids would have really loved it.
Lovely green rotis- looks yummmmilicious
Great way to incorporate greens into a meal....That's how I used to give my kids:)...Loks very colourful and well presented:)
Great way to incorporate greens into a meal....That's how I used to give my kids:)...Looks very colourful and well presented:)
Thank you Vidya for allowing me to share a recipe for your toddler friendly event. It was a pleasure working on the same.
Thanks for such a delicious and healthy treat Sandhya:-)
I just love this recipe! You have given so many alternatives that my head is spinning on what I would use!
Spinach roti looks delicious Vidya, it is really healthy one too.
Lovely guest post Sandya!!! Spinach phulka looks awesome, lovely clicks
They look fab!
Super post. Congrats Vidya and Sandhya. Every indian woman's dream to see her rotis puff up like that. And I am super impressed by the squeaky clean stove top
I love chapati and I love that you add such healthy ingredients! The picture of it puffed up perfectly is gorgeous! I've tried to get mine to look like that and I haven't succeeded yet. Now I'm determined to try again.
I love these spinach roti thanks for sharing and reminding me, use to eat them a lot when I was small will make them soon
Wow! Looks totally awesome! I love the fresh green color! Must be delicious!
well done!! xoxo