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Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread)

Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Vegan Halal Dairy free

Ingredients

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup roasted gram flour (sattu)
  • 3 tbsp mustard oil
  • 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
  • 2 green chilies, chopped
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • 1/2 tsp ajwain
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp chopped cilantro

How to cook it

  1. Make a soft dough with the whole wheat flour, a little salt, a spoon of mustard oil, and water; cover and rest for 20 minutes.
  2. In a bowl, mix the sattu with the onion, green chilies, ginger, garlic, ajwain, lemon juice, cilantro, and a spoon of mustard oil, adding a splash of water so the filling just holds together.
  3. Divide the dough into balls, flatten each into a small disc, and place a generous spoonful of the sattu filling in the center.
  4. Gather the edges up and over the filling to seal it into a stuffed ball, then flatten gently and roll out carefully into a thick round without letting the filling spill out.
  5. Cook on a hot tawa with a little mustard oil on both sides, pressing gently, until golden-brown spots appear on each side, about 4 minutes total.
  6. Serve hot with chokha or pickle on the side.

Serve it with

A East Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
Medium
Protein quality
Partial
Food groups it covers
Grains and Pulses
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Sattu Paratha (Roasted Gram Flour Stuffed Flatbread) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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