Hi Mamta and Kavey,
Am interested in making some stuffed bread - various stuffings - meat, veg, whatever. Also wondered whether they are ever stuffed with fruit fillings. OH keeps asking me to make something he says is called "fried pie" in New Mexico. I've never had it myself or seen it so I'm lost! This is how he describes it: a flat bread (yeast he thinks) that is made by rolling two bits of dough out thin and spreading some fruit paste between them, sealing the edges, rubbing the outside with oil/fat and cooking on a cast iron griddle. Could almost be a stuffed naan or one of the other flat breads! That's why I wondered ...
Odette
Speechless?... lol
sounds interesting, I suppose you could try making them?
Parathas are often stuffed - we have several recipes on the site.
I can't see any reason not to experiment with sweet fillngs and with stuffing other Indian breads too...
:o)
Hello Odette
From your description, it sound more like a stuffed paratha than a naan. See the recipes below and tell me if it looks familiar to him;
Paratha (Flat Bread), Sweet 2a or
Paratha (Flat Bread), Sweet 3 or Paratha (Flat Bread), Sweet 4
For pictures on how to make it, see this recipe; Paratha
Mamta
Steven, not lost for words, gagged by the anti-SPAM programme!! LOL :-)!Mamta
Thanks for those recipes, Mamta. And sorry for not replying sooner. That step by step page looks very useful. It's often hard to know if you're getting it exactly right. The Paneer stuffed paratha looks especially good! I think I will try that one first.
LOL Speechless! Actually last week I made a version of the fruit thing I mentioned, but used a sweet biscuit/scone type dough, not a yeast dough. Cut dough in half, rolled out very thin to size of baking sheet, placed on baking sheet, spread some apple butter on it, rolled out second piece of dough same way, placed it on top, cooked it, cut into squares when cooked and it was very good!
Hi!
Finally made it to your website! Are the parathas the same as the naans you tend to find in many Indian restaurants/takeaways? ie. fluffy and a bit chewy usually plain, garlic/coriander/keema/peshwari etc?
Would love to know as have been commissioned to cook curry for dad's birthday on Saturday!
Hello Odette
I am glad you found pictures useful. I have many more pictures waiting to go on line. Kavey will post them as and when she gets a few moments free.
When you make your scone type stuffed bread, please take a few pictures and send them to me. It sounds interesting, a bit like yeast free, sweet naan. How do you make your apple butter?, would you like to share it with rest of the mamtaskitchen readers?
Hello MrsSquirrel
Welcome! Parathas are actually unleavened flat bread that has been pan fried. For special occasion parathas, a little oil/ghee is also added to the dough, which gives them extra crunch. They are best eaten straight from the pan. They are not chewy, but crisp and wonderful. The ones you sre describing are naans.
Which curry are you making for your dad's birthday? What type of curry's does he like? perhaps I can help you to choose :-)!
Mamta