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Everyone relish eating sarso saag and maize flour (makke atta) roti during winters.
Today we are making sarso saag and maize flour roti.
Let’s start with the procedure of making this recipe.
Let’s start with making the saag first.
For this we have taken yellow sarso leaves.
Sarso is available in numerous variety in market like Black sarso leaves, Rei leaves, Yellow mustard leaves.
So you can use any variety that is available.
We have 300 grams yellow sarso leaves
We have already removed the stalk, washed them thoroughly with water and placed it sieve to dry.
We also have taken 100 grams spinach, washed and dried.
Also, we have 100 grams bathua, removed the stalk, washed and dried
We have taken 3 tomatoes, 2 green chilies and 1 inch ginger piece.
We will chop the veggies finely and will grind tomatoes-green chilly-ginger to make a fine paste.
We are already done with chopping the veggies and making a paste.
So we’ll use them.
Boil the veggies first.
Place the leaves in a pressure cooker, followed by spinach leaves and bathua leaves.
We can make saag with sarso leaves only as well but if you mix bathua,
spinach, fenugreek leaves in the saag then it taste even better.
Add ½ cup water into it and close the pressure cooker with lid.
Turn on the flame and simmer the veggies until it whistles once.
After one whistle, turn off the flame and keep it as until the steam escapes on its own.
After this open the lid.
Now let’s check the veggies.
Veggies are cooked and turned soft.
We chopped the veggies so finely so there is no need to grind them.
If you chopped the veggies thickly then ground them coarsely in a mixture grinder.
Now let us prepare masala for the sabzi.
Take a wok and heat 2 tbsp mustard oil in it.
You can also use any other cooking oil instead of mustard oil.
When the oil is hot, splutter cumin seeds first.
Reduce the flame so that spices don’t burn.
Also add 1 pinch asafoetida, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp coriander powder.
Saute the masala for a while and then add maize flour into it.
We have taken 2 tbsp maize flour.
Stir and keep stirring the flour to roast it well.
Now we will add tomato paste into the wok.
Saute the masala until oil starts separating from it.
We pressure cooked the veggies here.
But when there were no pressure cookers, we used to cook the veggies in an open vessel,
After boiling the veggies, mixed the flour in the sabzi and added water as per desired consistency of gravy.
Cooked the sabzi until mashed and cooked well.
Also, a heavy spoon or ladle for used for mashing it.
When the sabzi was cooked well, added salt, chilies and other spices into it
Lastly, added asafoetida-cumin seed tempering into it.
If you prefer eating garlic, then use to make tempering.
Tomatoes were not added to the sabzi.
But now we are using tomatoes, ginger to make sabzi in a different way.
Saute the flour for a while so that sabzi is cooked quickly.
Masala is ready, now mix the cooked veggies, ¼ tsp red chilly powder into it.
You can increase or decrease the quantity of chilies as per your taste.
Also, add more than 1 tsp of salt or as per taste.
Add some water in the sabzi to get desired consistency.
We are adding 1 cup water to the sabzi.
Now cook the sabzi for 10 to 12 minutes.
Keep the flame medium.
Also, add some green coriander in the sabzi and mix.
Now cover and cook the sabzi for 10 to 12 minutes.
12 minutes are over and sabzi is ready.
We stirred the sabzi after every two minutes to avoid the sabzi browning at the base.
Sabzi is now ready, take it off from flame.
Now we will start with making the roti.
For this we have 2 cups maize flour in a plate and some ghee to apply on the roti.
Add water to the flour and just bind it.
We need to knead the dough freshly for making the roti.
We have used on cup water for kneading the dough and will need more water.
So, add more water in the cup.
Meanwhile preheat a tawa. Turn on the flame.
Now for making the rotis, pinch some amount of the dough and knead it again with the help of some water until soft.
This is known as smoothing the dough.
Pinch some dough as per the desired size of roti and roll in round shape first.
Now wet your hands with some water to roll out the roti.
Flatten the dough ball like this with your fingers.
Keep binding the corners with one hand and flatten it with the other hand.
Now roll out the roti with the help of your palms keeping it little thick.
Place the roti over hot tawa to roast.
Meanwhile knead the rest of the dough for making another roti.
The roti has turned dark on the upper side, it's roasted from beneath, now flip the side.
Now roast the roti until it gets brown spots on this side as well.
Now roast the roti directly over the flame.
Place the other roti over tawa to roast.
Turn on the other flame and roast the roti here.
Meanwhile roti on tawa will be roasted as well.
With the use of tongs roast the roti like this.
Roast the roti from both sides until it gets brown spots evenly.
Roti is ready, apply some ghee over it or serve it directly as it taste really delectable and crispy if served piping hot.
Likewise prepare all the rotis.
We are done with making the rotis directly on hands and now we’ll use a polythene sheet to make rotis.
You can also roll out the roti over a plastic wrap if not able to roll it out on your hands.
Knead the dough again, wet your hands with some water and make a dough ball.
Flatten it like this and wet the plastic wrap with some water as well.
Place the dough ball over it and apply some water over it as well.
Fold the plastic wrap and roll out the roti like this with your palms.
Make sure you keep the maize flour roti little thick
Now separate out the roti from plastic wrap very gently, take it on your hands and place it over the tawa.
Likewise fry the other roti as well.
We are done with making all rotis.
Yummy and mouth drooling saag and roti is ready.
Making them is easy too.
We can very easily prepare the saag and roti can be prepared easily too.
You can very easily roll out the rotis using your hands, just need a little practice or roll it out using a polythene sheet.
If you don’t wish to make roti over a plastic wrap then add ¼ cup of wheat flour in
maize flour and knead the dough same as required for making regular roti and paranthas.
Also, use the same method for rolling out the rotis.
Make dough balls and dust it with wheat flour and roll out the rotis
Keep the rotis little thick.
Roast it likewise over the tawa and you will be able to delicious rotis.
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