Vrat Ka Paratha | Sama Rice Paratha | Barnyard Millet Flatbread
Vrat ka paratha or sama rice paratha is easy and low calories fasting or upvas recipe. Sama rice paratha is very nutritious, healthy, filling, and gluten-free.
This is prepared on fasting days including Navratri, Ekadashi, Janamashtmi. You can make sama rice kheer and sama rice dosa as well using barnyard millet.
Biologically known as Echinochloa colona, sama rice is also known with different names in different places, in Gujarati, it is called Samo or Moriyo, in Marathi, it is called Bhagar or varicha tandul, in Hindi, it is called as Mordhan or sawa ka chawal or Samay ke chawal or Samak, samo, swang ke chawal. It keeps you full during fasting days and gives you energy.
This samak rice paratha is prepared like rajgira paratha which I made using rajgira flour.
Adding allowed vegetables during fasting this vrat recipe is easy and quick to make.
Sama rice paratha can be prepared with store bought sama rice flour or you can make it at home. Just grind barnyard millet till fine powder. Sieve it to remove grainy particles or simply use it
Why you will love this recipe
- Provides essential nutrients
- Rich in digestible fiber
- Filling & easy to make
- A very good replacement of rice in normal days
- A perfect fasting food
Ingredients
Please check RECIPE CARD for detailed ingredients list with accurate measurement.
- Flour– Barnyard millet or sama rice flour
- Vegetables– Adding boiled potato makes it easy to bind the flour. Grated carrot is another addition to this upwas paratha.
- Spices– roasted cumin seed powder, chopped green chilies & red chili powder(optional)
- Other ingredients– Chopped green coriander, rock salt as per taste
NOTE- Please consult with your elders, it may be that some food may not allowed at you place. Just skip those ingredients and make.
How to make samak rice paratha
Making this vrat recipe is very easy. Just add boiled potato, grated carrot, green coriander, salt, and cumin seed powder.
Knead and roll vrat ka paratha. Let see how to make this gluten-free vrat ka paratha or sama rice paratha.
- First of all boil potatoes and mashed properly. There should not be any lump in mashed potatoes.
- In a mixing bowl gather all the ingredients and combine them together. Do not add water.
- Mashed potato is enough to bind everything and make a dough.
- Now divide the dough into equal parts and start rolling them gently. Since it is gluten-free it is very difficult to roll, I used parchment paper and patted with hands.
- Dust with dry flour from time to time. Do not worry if paratha breaks from sides. Seal it and pat again with the help of dry flour.
- Heat a Tava or skillet and place the paratha on it. Cook in medium heat. Keep flipping till it gets brown color on both sides. Apply little oil on both sides and cook.
- Once both sides cooked properly take it on the paper towel. Repeat the same process with the rest of the dough ball.
- Serve this vrat ka paratha or sama rice paratha hot with curd or falahari sabji.
Serving suggestions
Serve this samvat rice paratha with potato raita, or carrot raita, vrat ki chutneys, or lauki ka raita.
I served this paratha with easy no-cook peach chutney. Plain homemade curd or masala chaas will also go very well.
It goes very well with farali sabji like vrat ke aloo, pumpkin sabji.
Storing suggestions
Barnyard millet flour paratha (samak rice paratha) is best to consume when serve fresh.
You can always mix everything in the flour and make a soft dough. Store it in an airtight container for up to three days in the fridge.
Tips & FAQ’s
- Make paratha as soon as possible. Keeping it for longer makes this dough watery.
- It breaks a lot but just seals it and keep patting.
- If you can not get sama rice flour in the market than buy barnyard millet and just grind it to smooth powder. Use it to make this vrat paratha.
Sama rice (barnyard millet) is a healthy source of energy on fasting days as well as on normal days. It provides essential nutrients and fibre to the body with minerals & vitamins.
Since it is fibre-rich food, it helps in weight loss as well. You can easily replace with rice. It’s taste & texture very much similar to normal rice.
It is called Barnyard millet in English.
Sama rice is also known as “Samo” and “Moriyo”. All are same.
Sama rice or barnyard millet is a seed, not grain.
Echinochloa colona, commonly known as jungle rice, deccan grass, or Awnless barnyard grass.
In India seeds of this grass are used to prepare a food dish called khichdi or sama rice kheer (Indian barnyard millet pudding), and are consumed during festival fasting days
Sama rice looks like semolina but a little bigger in size. It is a gluten-free flour which is consumed on fasting days.
It is not a grain rather seeds of Awnless barnyard grass.
You may also like More Navratri Fasting Recipes
- Kuttu Ka Bherwa Paratha
- Kuttu Ka Cheela(farali cheela)
- Lauki Ka Halva
- Kuttu ki Tikki(farali cutlet)
- Sabudana Vrat Ki Khichdi
- Homemade yogurt recipe
- Homemade ghee
- Roasted cumin powder
Few more Sama rice flour recipes (Barnyard millet flour recipes)
Below are some Rajgira flour recipes
You can check all the Vrat recipes from the blog and make a meal plan to make on any fasting day. See this meal plan which I made for Navratri.
Vrat Ka Paratha or Sama Rice Paratha is my entry for the letter V in A to Z Indian flatbreads
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Vrat Ka Paratha | Sama Rice Paratha | Barnyard Millet Flatbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup sama rice flour (barnyard millet flour)
- 1 carrot grated (Medium size )
- 2 boiled potato (Medium size )
- Handful green coriander chopped finely
- 1 tsp cumin seed powder
- 1 Green chili chopped finely
- 1/2 tsp red chili powder (optional)
- Sendha Namak or rock salt as per taste
Instructions
- First of all boil potatoes and mashed properly. There should not be any lump in mashed potato.
- In a mixing bowl gather all the ingredients and combine them together. Do not add water.
- Mashed potato is enough to bind everything and make a dough.
- Now divide the dough into equal parts and start rolling them gently. Since it is gluten-free it is very difficult to roll, I used parchment paper and patted with hands.
- Dust with dry flour time to time. Do not worry if paratha breaks from sides. Seal it and pat again with the help of dry flour.
- Heat a tava or skillet and place the paratha on it. Cook in medium heat. Keep flipping till it gets brown color in both sides. Apply little oil on both sides and cook.
- Once both sides cooked properly take it on the paper towel. Repeat the same process with the rest of the dough ball.
- Serve this vrat ka paratha or sama rice paratha hot with curd or falahari sabji.
Notes
- Make paratha as soon as possible. Keeping it for longer makes this dough watery.
- It breaks a lot but just seals it and keep patting.
Nutrition
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This sama rice paratha looks very crisp. Potato and carrot must have made it very soft and tasty. Though we consume it during fasting but why to wait till navratri for this delicious paratha, can make it any time
hahaha true, actually millets taste amazing with vrat style preparation. may be ghee adds flavor.
After seeing the vrat ka oaratha, I might not be feeling bad about fasting at all. Looks so flavorful with all the vegetables and the spices.
Thank you, for liking the barnyard millet flatbread.
By saying this is fasting special we are depriving ourselves..:)..we should be including these in our regular menu..the rotis look very inviting!
yep I realized this while making all fasting recipes. we can make them in our daily routine.
I think even in normal days, this sama rice paratha would be a nice dish for breakfast, a change from the routine! Add vegetables makes it all the more healthy
you are right PJ, that is the plan to use this millet.
Perfectly made vrat ka paratha. Love your detail explanation and procedure.
Thanks Renu, I am glad you noticed.
Bhawana really like how the vrat ka paratha looks. I’ve never tried making one using just sama. Bookmarked and hopefully will make it for the coming Ekadashi.
Thanks so much for appreciation. I am glad that you loved sama rice paratha
Wow… this paratha looks so fantastic, will def try this paratha in upcoming navratri.. Bookmarked.
Thanks Preeti for liking vrat ka paratha.
With all the spices, carrots and potatoes, these paratha look very colourful and don’t even need a side dish. Perfect to have with a cup of coffee.
Thanks Gayatri for liking vrat ka paratha.
That’s a lovely colourful and healthy paratha . It might be a fasting speciality but I am sure there’s absolutely no reason why we can’t enjoy it on other days . Excellent pick , the paratha surely is very filling too and can suffice as a complete meal .
Thanks di for liking vrat ka paratha. Yeah I am surely gonna include them regularly in our meals.
Sama rice flour is probably a hard to find for me but I was thinking I can cook the sama grain and work with that. what say you? but fasting or not this is a nutritious one.
Try once dear, you will love this sama millet. This BM taught me to love these grains.
Wow, sama rice paratha thats seriously very brilliant Bhawana, how pretty and healthy those parathas looks. Its quite a hard task to make prefect parathas like this with sama rice flour na. Well done yaar.
Thanks, Priya, yeah actually precooked dough version is also there to make this sama rice paratha. will post that soon.
Potato and carrot would have made the paratha so soft….perfect for an evening meal, irrespective of fasting!! Nice one!
correct, even I realized these are so nutritious that should be consumed in normal days as well.