My Cook Book

Sorry I don't have the pictures of the final product. Its just that I got busy serving it in short time.
The paratha roles are similar to gyro wrap but its in desi style. In Pakistan, this style is also called shawarma. You can do many variations with this dish. You can add whatever and however you want for the filling, you can add your choice of sauces and also have an option to choose chapati, paratha or naan for the wrap. This particular one is made with tikka style chicken and parathas. So here you go.

Take chicken in desired quantity. It doesn't matter if the chicken is in small/big pieces. Add the following ingredients in the chicken and marinate it for 1/2 to 1 hr.
Yogurt, ginger garlic paste, Shan tandoori chicken masala, Shan chicken tikka masala, lemon juice, sour cream, soya sauce, vinegar, a lil bit of salt.

After the marination is done, put this chicken along with its masala into a pan and cover it, cook it on medium heat. When the chicken is half done, add a tablespoon of oil. When the chicken is done and the oil is separated from the masala, remove from the flame. After letting it cool down, using your hands shred the chicken pieces into smaller size. Now add the masala into the shredded chicken and mix both well.



Now in a separate pan, add oil (quantity depending on the amount of vegetables you are going to use). You can use vegetables of your choice. I added onion and did let it saute. Then I added carrot, pickled chillies, tomatoes, lettuce, green chillies. I chose these because I had only these vegetables in my refrigerator. So its totally upto you what you want to add. Now add the chicken mixed with its masala into the vegetables and cook everything on medium heat for about 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat. Filling is ready now.

Parathas: (used for wraps)

(I will post the recipe of the parathas along with the pictures soon)
Now to make paratha I used  the regular dough that is used to make roti (Pakistani bread).
For the paratha dough (add a tablespoon of oil and a pinch of salt in to the flour and kneed it well by adding the water). Now make small balls and make chapatis out of them and let them cook on heat (you can use frying pan too). Add oil as desired. When the parathas are ready, put the desired amount of filling on the parathas and wrap them. Now your paratha roles are ready to serve.

Daal can be cooked without meat. Some people cook daal chawal (lentils & rice) to get a break from the chicken. There are different ways to cook daal. Some people like to cook it in boiled style and some like it in bhono style. Its up to you whatever way you want to cook it. I am cooking it in bhoono style today where you make the masala first and the add the daal. I will post the boiled style recipe later.

Prepare the Masala:
Add oil in a pan and add cumin seeds in it, once they start cracking up add finely sliced onion and let it get mild golden. Now there is a difference between golden and golden brown. Golden is the color that onion take before getting golden brown. Now add chicken into the pan and also add ginger garlic paste and let the chicken cook in it to loose its (uncooked) smell. Now add the tomatoes along with other masalas (salt, haldi, red chillies, garam masala). Let it cook till the chicken is half done.





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Daal:

Remove the chicken pieces from the pan and let the masala stay in the pan. Rinse the daal in water and let it soak for about 20 to 30 minutes. Now add this daal into the masala and add two to three green chillies.Bhono the daal in the masala for about 3 to 4 minutes and then add water into the daal and let it cook. Once the daal is done, add the cooked chicken pieces into it and let it cook along with the daal. Once the daal and chicken both are completely done, remove from the flame.

Tadka:

Now in a frying pan, add oil and then add finely round slices of garlic. Once the garlic start taking golden color remove from the flame and add oil and garlic into daal and cover immediately, so the steam stays inside and the daal gets the desired smell.  

You can serve it with white boiled rice.

Bhindi Chicken