Mughlai Paratha

Mughlai paratha is a Popular Bengali street food also known as moglai porota is actually deep-fried Indian bread stuffed with egg or keema. It’s a special paratha recipe of Bengali cuisine, where chicken or mutton keema or mince was used with eggs as stuffing in the original version.

Ingredients

• 1 cup ‏Wheat flour
• 1 pc ‏Egg
• 1/2 cup ‏Chopped onion
• 1 tsp ‏Chopped green chili
• 1 tbsp ‏Coriander leaves
• 1/2 tsp ‏Roasted cumin powder
• To deep fry ‏Oil
• To taste ‏Salt

Directions

1. In a bowl take flour, salt and 1 tsp oil. Mix them nicely with your hand. Add water gradually and make a soft dough. Knead the dough for 2-3 minutes till smooth. Grease some oil over the dough, cover and rest for 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile prepare egg staffing. In a bowl take green chilies, chopped onion, coriander leaves, cumin powder, salt & egg and mix everything well. Keep it aside.
3. Now take the dough and cut into 6 equal pieces. Take all pieces and give them ball-shape by hand one by one. Take a ball and flatten as thin as possible. Place some egg stuffing in middle and close it by stretching the edges towards the center like paratha.
4. Heat oil in a pan for deep fry. Add mini parathas carefully in it and fry one side till brown. Then flip it and fry both sides till brown on medium-low flame. Then take them out, leave them on a tissue paper to absorb excess oil and serve warm with chopped cucumber, onion and/or ketchup or sauce.