Root-y Roti. (Beetroot-sweet potato-carrot paratha)

Colorful, flavorful root vegetables come together to yield this delightful and health-ful roti/paratha. It is recommended to have 5 servings of veggies per day(Wow!). How many do we actually do? How well do we mix our veggies to get most if not all the nutrients we need?
This is not really a "recipe" or some great preparation. Just an idea to sneak those veggies into your diet in an easy and tasty way.
I have used beetroot, carrots, sweet potato and flavored it with ginger to make a puree. You can use this puree in many different ways :

1. Mix it in your roti dough to make colorful rotis and include them in your regular meal. The rotis will be soft and flavored and go well with any side.
2. Make paratha dough with it - use spices and extra seasoning and they can be eaten with just curd/pickle.
3. Add some puree in your rice- a colorful fun rice to go with your usual dal/sambar side :)
4. Make a pulav with rice/qunioa/other mix grains for a healthy one pot meal.
5. Sneak some puree into your curry/gravy dish to add that extra dose of health

..the possibilities are endless! If you try this, or have any new ideas of using it, please write a comment and I'd love to try it as well. :)

The recipe here is for paratha and I'm going to freeze some puree as "health cubes" and see how that goes ;)

Mixed root vegetables ready to be boiled

Basic root puree:

1 large beetroot
2 carrots
1 sweet potato
1 inch piece of ginger -more if u like a strong ginger flavor.
Salt- optional

Method :
1.  Scrub and peel the beet and sweet potato. Chop it into big chunks. We're going to boil it, so don't waste your energy in chopping these hard veggies :P
2. Chop carrots.
3. Boil all the veggies and ginger with minimal amount of water till they are cooked thru. You want the puree to be as thick and concentrated as possible.
4. After it cools down, make a puree and get thinking on what you'd like to do with it! :)

Rooty puree

Paratha:

Beetroot sweet potato and carrot paratha

What you need:

Basic root puree 1 cup
Wheat flour 2 cups
Salt
Crushed garlic 
Finely chopped cilantro
Red chilly powder- per taste
Dhaniya jeera powder
Garam masala - optional
Chaat masala -optional
Kasoori methi (dried methi leaves)
Plain yogurt/curd
Oil

Method:
Mix the whole wheat flour with all the dry ingredients. Mix in the puree and some curd. Try to mix the dough with the moisture from curd and veggie puree only and avoid adding water. This will make the parathas really soft.
Roll out parathas as you'd like -folded, laccha, plain and roast them with a little ghee/oil if desired.
Serve hot! :)

Broccoli Tofu stuffed paratha (Stuffed flatbread)

This is one delicious dose of health! Broccoli, tofu, whole wheat flour.. What more can you ask for in a meal? :) And good news is, my broccoli-averse  hub loves this! And everyone would! Its just so yummy! I usually make the stuffing in advance and making parathas in the morning is quick.

The thing with parathas is I can never go by a set quantity of ingredients. Just mix some amount of basic ingredient (broccoli and tofu), adjust seasonings as per taste. Ended up making more stuffing, great! Reuse it to make grilled sandwiches with cheese. :) Less stuffing = plain chapatis. :) So, there are no quantities specified in the ingredient list.

What you need :

Dough:

Wheat flour

Water

Ajwain seeds (Carom seeds) - optional

Stuffing:

Broccoli

Tofu - mashed 

Ginger

Garlic

Green chillies

Cumin powder

Pepper powder

Cilantro - finely chopped

Garam masala, a pinch - optional

Salt

Method:

1. Make a soft dough by mixing flour and water. Almost double the amount of water to flour. Mix in some crushed carom seeds if you like the flavor. You could add other ingredients to the flour like salt, oil, seasoning. But I just used flour, water and carom seeds.

2. Knead the dough well. Apply about half a teaspoon of oil to the dough and keep it covered for about 15 mins. Knead again and your dough is ready.

3. For the stuffing : Pulse Broccoli + green chilly+ ginger + garlic in a food processor till its coarsely powdered. Alternatively you could grate broccoli and mix in ginger garlic chilly paste. Microwave this mixture for 3 - 5 mins till the raw smell goes away.

4. Mix in the crumbled tofu, spices, finely chopped cilantro, salt and mix well. Adjust seasoning.

5. Make parathas by stuffing the broccoli mixture in the dough.

6. Roast with few drops of oil.

7. Serve hot with raita! YUM! :)