Jeera paratha

Ingredients:

Wheat flour          -  2 cups
Jeera powder       -  2 table spoons
Ghee                    -  2 - 3 table spoons
Asafoitida             - 1 tea spoon
Cooking oil           -  2 - 3 table spoons
Salt to taste.


1.  Take wheat flour in a bowl add salt and water and mix it to form a stiff dough.
2.  Keep it aside for 1 hr.
3.  Take the jeera powder in a small bowl and add salt and asafoitida to it.
4.  Take a large lemon size of dough, dust the rolling board and place the dough and roll it into a chapati.
5.  Grease the chapati with 1 tea spoon of ghee.
6.  Spread evenly on the chapati one table spoon of the jeera powder mixture and fold it twice.
7.  Again dust the rolling board and the folded chapati and roll it into a normal chapati size.
8.  Heat the tawa and place the rolled triangular paratha and pour 1/2 tea spoon of oil or ghee.
9.  Cook in low flame for 2 mins and turn the paratha and add another 1/2 tea spoon of oil or ghee and cook till both the sides of the paratha are cooked and there are brown spots.
10.Jeera paratha ready.  Serve hot with dal, pickle and curd.