Aloo Paratha Recipe
Aloo Paratha Recipe is a delicious paratha made with boiled potatoes, spices, and herbs, stuffed into a wheat flour flatbread. Its taste is crispy and flavorful.
Ingredients
- 1 cup wheat flour
- water as required
- 3 to 4 medium-sized boiled potatoes
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp fennel seeds powder
- 1 tsp salt or as per your taste
- ¼ tsp red chili powder
- ½ tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
- 2 green chili, finely chopped
- oil/ ghee for roasting
Instructions
- Take the wheat flour on a platter or a bowl.
- Add water and knead it into soft dough.
- Leave the dough for 30 minutes.
- Cook potatoes in pressure cooker with 1 glass water till 3-4 whistle.
- When the potatoes cool down, peel and mash them.
- Now add all the spices in mashed potatoes.
- Add coriander leaves or green chili.
- Mix all the ingredients well and the filling is ready.
- Make small balls from the kneaded dough.
- Take a dough ball and dust it in flour.
- Now roll it in the circle of approx 3 inch.
- Put 1 tsp filling in middle of it.
- Take and close it from its edges properly.
- Now roll it into a big roti carefully with soft hands.
- Heat tawa on medium flame.
- When it gets heated, place your rounded paratha on it.
- Apply 1 tsp ghee on it and all over its edges. Wait for some seconds.
- Flip it through the other side. Apply ghee on the other side, too.
- Roast till the paratha have a golden texture.
- Press gently with the spatula so that its edges roast properly.
- When you see the golden crunchy flakes appearing on the paratha, remove it.
- Serve it hot with a cup of tea.
Notes
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- Boil the potatoes in 3 to 4 whistles and 1 glass of water.
- You can add extra ingredients for spicy parathas: ½ amchur powder, 1 tsp dried fenugreek seeds, ½ grated ginger paste, 1 chopped onion.
- Rest the dough for at least 30 minutes to make it smooth.