Kaaliphlower paratha

I wanted to make Gobi paratha. Don’t know why. I was sitting in my home one day watching tv. And for some weird reason I was watching ‘The Anacondas’ movie – the movie where the normally slow-dull giant snake is shown as super charged super quick Rajnikanth robo of the snake world capable of catching falling people whilst hanging from a tree.  I am not able to catch my cellphone while I am sitting in a chair, let alone hanging from a tree. Anyways watching the movie which shows snake eating so many people, made me realize that I was hungry too. Though I need not catch flying people or sneak up on a vegetable from under water, I could make something myself.  That’s when I got the thing about wanting to make Gobi paratha. So on an impulse I went to the nearest shop and bought among other other things a cauliflower and onions. I found lots of recipes for making Gobi parathas and there wasn’t much to chose between them. Almost all of them wanted me to chop the gobi nicely, do the usual tadka stuff then put in the gobi and let it cook for sometime before adding all masala items and finally some besan flour. Then I was supposed to put this mixture in middle of rolled out chapathi, close it nicely and roll it out again. Simple enough. But for me, the mixture was never dry, no matter how many extra minutes I kept it on flame or besan I added, it only turned to a paste which still had enough moisture which spoilt my well laid plans of making stuffed parathas . With the Anaconda killed from the huge explosion the misery ended on Tv, not much for me in the kitchen. Someone said necessity is the mother of invention. The simplest idea sometimes might be the best. So, instead of trying to make the gobi masala mixture dry enough so as to stuff it into my rolled out dough, I put the entire dough into the gobi mixture and added a bit more flour and got my own gobi mixture dough. ( I wasn’t caring much for inventions or thinking about anything else, I was hungry and I had put better part of an hour into this mixture and the Anacondas movie kept replaying back in my mind again)

The idea worked out well and I was able to make the parathas with my roti king itself ! . In fact it worked out so well that 2 days later when there was a repeat telecast of the Anacondas I made Gobi paratha again with the rest of the gobi i bought that day

Added Later : The feedback I received from the gang in office is I should look towards cooking as a more lucrative vocation than validation. There were also few requests for starting a mid-day meals scheme with a pre-planned menu which I rejected outright as I was neither a politician trying to earn a point nor are they undernourished children.

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