Alu paratha recipe

Alu paratha

This is an alternative meal for plane roti/ chapati if you want taste change. Despite from plane roti it have potato stuffing inside and very delicious in taste. It is a bit high caloris as it requires potato, ghee and oil for cooking. If you like to eat paratha with low calorie than this then you can change it's stuffing like you can use onion, fenugreek leaf, radish, roasted checkpea powder etc. Parathas are of many varities according to their stuffing. Now lets go through the recipe for making alu paratha.

Ingredients for making alu paratha: 

Alu paratha

For Preparing dough:

Wheat flour 3 cups

Oil 3/4 tbs

Salt As per taste

Ajwain 1/2 tbs

For preparing stuffing

Onion 1 medium

Potatos 3 medium

Green chilli 2/3 (as per taste)

Chili powder (otional) 1/4 tbs

Ginger/ garlic paste 1/2 tbs

Cumin seeds 1/2 tbs

Salt as per taste

Turmeric powder 1/4 tbs

cumin and coriender powder 1/4 tbs

Dough

For cooking

Ghee 2 tbs

Recipe for making paratha:

1. First of all we need to prepare dough for this mix all the ingredients mentioned above under the caption "for preparing dough" and add water into it and mash with hand unless a soft dough is prepared as shown in the figure. Note: dough should not be very sticky or very hard as both may end in ruinig the shape and taste of paratha. It must be soft and non sticky so that it could be rolled properly.

2. Once the dough is prepared cover it and left aside for 10/ 15 min.

Mashed Potato

3. Now lets prepare its stuffing. For this we need boiled potato, peel them and mash them. Chop onion, coiender, green chilli into fine pieces. Now in a pan heat oil when it is heated then add cumin seed and let it fry until its color changes to brown, then add chopped onion and green chilli and fry until onions color changes to little brown and then add ginger/ garlic paste, turmeric powder, coriender and cumin powder and cook for a while and then add mashed potato and put salt and coriender leaf in it and stir it and mix all the ingredients in potato well. Now stuffing is also ready.

Stuffing in dough

4. Now take small ball of dough and press and shift from the center and make a bowl like shape of that dough. Put potato stuffing inside that bowl and close the opening by stretching dough (make small ball ).

5. Put that ball in flour and roll it to make thin round roti or chapati. Heat pan and put some ghee when the pan is heated and put that roti in pan. Cook it for 1 min and flip on another side and add some ghee and let it cook for around 30 second and flip on another side. (Note: to avoid burnig flip roti often but not so frequently and you will notice the color if the paratha changed it signifies that pratha is cooked.)

Now repeat the process for other parathas also.

Alu paratha could be eaten as breakfast, lunch or dinner however you prefer.