Sunday, November 18, 2007

Aloo Paratha

Ingredients
Wheat Flour - 1 cup
Salt - 1/4 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp

Potatoes - 5 or 6 medium sized boliled potatoes
Onions - 1 finely chopped
Green Cillies - 2 or 3
Jeera (Cumin seeds) - 1 tbsp
Rai (Mustard seeds) - 1/4 tbsp
Turmeric - 1/4 tbsp
Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tbsp
Coriander Powder - 1/2 tbsp
Kasturi Methi - 2 tbsp
Ginger & Garlic Paste - 1/2 tbsp
Salt to taste

Procedure
Take 4 tbsp of oil in a frying pan and heat for a couple of minutes. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, turmeric, chopped onions, green chillies, garam masala,

Coriander powder, Red Chilli powder, Ginger Garlic paste and salt and fry for a couple of minutes. Now add the potato pieces and mix well all the above

ingredients. Heat for some around 4 to 5 min. This will make sure that all the Masala is ingrained good into the potato pieces. This would make the paratha's

very tasty. Now switch off the flame and add kasturi methi to it and cover with a lid. Adding kasturi methi would give a unique distinct flavor to the potato

curry/masala. Put this aside to cool.

Using wheat flour and salt with 1 tbsp of oil prepare dough. Now prepare small chapati using the dough and put a big 1 tbsp of the above potato curry. Close

this chapati from all sides to stuff the curry. Now slowly roll this into a chapati (making sure that you don't press too hard while making the chapati).

Make the chapati's evenly so that the entire curry is distributed through out the chapati.

Now in a shallow frying pan add 1 tbsp of oil and fry the stuffed chapati. While frying you can add some oil at the edges and fry till a light brown tinge on

both sides. Make all your stuffed chapati's like this and your Aloo paratha's are ready.

Author's Note
Aloo paratha goes very well with Curd with sugar or salt. Also Mango pickle goes very well with this.

Using the same procedure you can prepare Gobi Paratha (using boiled Gobi) or Mixed Paratha (using boiled cauliflower, grated carrot, tomato and peas).

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