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Aloo Paratha

Aloo Paratha | Aloo Parota

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Medium sized Potato
  • 200g 1 cup Wheat Flour
  • 100g 1/2 cup Maida All purpose flour
  • 4-5 Green chili
  • 8g 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 25g 2 tsp Ghee
  • 8g 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
  • 7-8 leaves Curry Leaves
  • Cooking Oil as required
  • Salt to taste

Method
 

Making Dough
  1. Take two cups (400g) of wheat flour in a dough maked or a vessel.
  2. Add one cup maida (200g) to it. Take wheat and maida in 1:1 proportion.
  3. Add little salt
  4. Add 2 tsp ghee to the mixture
  5. Add water as required. Adding warm water makes the dough soft. If you add more water then you can adjust it with adding more wheat flour
  6. Knead to form dough
  7. Cover it with damp cloth and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
Making Stuffing Mixture
  1. Boil 2 medium sized potatoes. Peel the skin off and mash it and put it in a vessel
  2. Take 4-5 green chillies, chop it into small pieces and add it to vessel along with potatoes
  3. Add half tsp cumin seeds
For Seasoning
  1. Take a small vessel, add a tsp of cooking oil, after it heats add half tsp mustard seeds and let it splutter
  2. Now add 7-5 curry leaves and stir for a while. Then add it to the mixture containing potato
  3. Add salt as per taste
  4. Mix the contents well. Taste it once before stuffing it. Adjust with salt or chilles or any other ingredient if necessary
  5. Now make lemon sized ball of the mixture and keep it ready for stuffing
  6. Now take the dough and make ball of bit bigger size than the stuffing mixture.
  7. Roll the dough into small poori, then insert the stuffing mixture
  8. Cover the dough along sides, see that the stuffed mixture does not spill out. Seal it at the top
  9. Now roll it again to form thin chapatis.
  10. Apply some cooking oil on a pan, then put the rolled chapati and apply oil again on the top
  11. Keep flipping every now and then to roast it evenly on both sides.
  12. There you are, delicious stuffed Aloo parathas are ready to consume. Eat it with curds and pickle for better taste.
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