Coconut Paratha is a delicious and filling Indian flatbread stuffed with freshly grated coconut, sugar and nuts. The mouth-watering sweet coconut paratha is sure to tempt your taste buds. Coconut stuffed paratha recipe turns out great and kids will just love it!
Coconut Paratha
If you are in the mood for something sweet, you should have a go at Coconut Paratha or Kobbari Paratha- a popular stuffed Indian flatbread recipe enriched with the goodness of coconut and oozing a lovely cardamom flavour.
Sweet Coconut Paratha Recipe Step By Step:
Sweet Coconut Paratha recipe is a yummy whole wheat flatbread stuffed with a delicious combination of fresh grated coconut, cardamom, nuts and sugar. Sweet Paratha with coconut filling can be served for breakfast or eaten as a snack.
Sweet Paratha
How to make Kobbari Coconut Paratha:
To make this yummy Coconut Stuffed Sweet Paratha, mix together wheat flour, salt and oil in a bowl.
Dough Ingredients
Add a little water to the mixture and knead into a smooth, pliable dough. Cover and keep aside for 10 minutes.
Wheat flour dough
Grate fresh coconut and grind the sugar and rice flakes to a fine powder.
Coconut Paratha Filling
Coarsely grind the mixed nuts.
Powdered Nuts
Mix grated coconut, powdered sugar, rice flakes powder, cardamom powder and ground nuts together. Keep aside.
Filling mixture
Divide the dough into 6 equal sized balls. Roll out each ball into a disc and put about 3 tbsp of the coconut stuffing in the centre of the flatbread.
Stuff paratha
Bring the edges together and close to form a ball.
Seal the edges
Lightly roll the coconut filling-stuffed flatbread ball in dry wheat flour. Gently flatten the ball on the sealed side.
Flatten the ball
Keep the sealed side up and roll out the ball into a slightly thick paratha.
Roll out stuffed paratha
Do the same with the rest of the dough portions and coconut stuffing.
Heat a griddle and place a stuffed coconut paratha on it. Cook on medium heat for 1-2 minutes and then flip over.
Cook paratha on griddle
Drizzle about ½ tsp of oil on the top and sides. Lightly press the sweet paratha with a spatula.
Cook the paratha
When the coconut paratha turns golden brown on both sides, remove.
Sweet Paratha
Enjoy deliciously sweet Coconut Paratha with a piping hot cup of coffee!
Kobbari Paratha
If you are looking for more shredded coconut recipes, do try out Dates Roll and Ash Gourd With Coconut.
Coconut Stuffed Sweet Paratha Recipe details:
- Wheat Flour – 1 cup
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Water for kneading the dough
- Grated coconut – 1 cup
- Powdered sugar – 1/4 cup
- Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp
- Rice Flakes/Poha – 1 tbsp grind to powder
- Mixed nuts – 2 tbsp almonds, cashewnuts and walnuts
- Oil – 1 to 1 ½ tbsp for cooking the parathas
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For this sweet paratha with coconut stuffing, take 1 cup of atta. Sieve it. Add a pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of oil. Knead well into a soft dough with a little water. Leave to rest for 10 minutes.
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Grate the coconut and powder the sugar. Grind the poha to a fine powder. Poha is added to ensure moisture doesn’t seep out when coconut is mixed with sugar. Grind the mixed nuts coarsely.
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For the filling, mix grated coconut, powdered sugar, cardamom powder, rice flakes powder and powdered dry fruits together and keep aside.
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Divide the dough into 6 equal portions. Roll out the balls of dough into about 3 inch diameter discs.
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Place about 3 tbsp of the filling in the centre of the rolled out paratha. (Ideally the stuffing should be a tad more than the dough portion). Pull the edges of the rolled dough together and seal. Dust with flour and gently roll out into slightly thick parathas.
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Heat a pan and place the rolled out paratha on it. Let it cook on medium heat and then flip it over. Drizzle 1/2 tsp of oil over it and along the edges. Once brown spots appear on both sides, remove from pan.
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Serve Kobbari Coconut Paratha hot for breakfast or as a snack.
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