What you need:
- Flour - 3 cups, preferably wheat flour (atta)
- Curd - Thick, 1 cup
- Onions - 2 medium, julienned (cut in thin strips)
- Ginger - 1 inch-piece, finely chopped
- Green chillies - 2, finely chopped
- Nigella seeds (Kalonji/Mangraila) - 1 teaspoon
- Carom seeds (Ajwain) - 1 teaspoon
- Poppy seeds (khuskhus) - 1 teaspoon
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Oil - 4-5 tablespoons
- Salt - to taste
- Water - for making the dough
What you do:
- Mix flour, curd, nigella seeds, carom seeds, salt and one tablespoon of oil with water to make a soft dough. (The soft dough makes good rotis and parathas while the hard dough makes good puris.) Keep the dough aside for half an hour.
- Soak the julienned onions in the milk for fifteen minutes.
- Strain the onions and deep-fry them in oil until it turns brown. Keep aside.
- Mix the fried onions with the ginger and the chillies. Add salt to the mixture.
- Make medium-size balls with the dough.
- Roll out a dough-ball with a rolling pin. Spread a portion of the onion mixture on it. Fold it again and roll it out the way you would roll out a lachcha paratha. Sprinkle a pinch of poppy seeds while rolling it.
- Cook the paratha on both sides with a little oil. Make all the parathas the same way.
Serve with sabji, dahi and achaar.
Note: If you plan to use the dough later, keep in in the fridge. If stored for long, the curd in the dough will spoil the dough.