Aloo Paratha

Ingredients

2 Cups of Flour
Sufficient Amount of Ghee
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup of water as per requirement

For the Stuffing
4 Medium Potatoes,boiled and mashed
1 Small Onion, finely chopped
5 Cloves Garlic, finely chopped
1/4 inch ginger, finely chopped
Few coriander leaves, finely chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp garam masala powder
1/4 tsp salt

Servings / Time

4 Medium Sized Parathas / 60 minutes

Preparation

1. Take 2 cups of flour in a bowl.

2. Now add salt to the water, and mix the salt with the water. See to it that the salt dissolves in the water well.

3. Add this water to the flour, little by little. Knead the flour so as to form a soft dough. Heat some oil in a pan, add the finely chopped ginger and garlic, add onions fry until translucent, let cool, then add this to a bowl with mashed potatoes along with all the above mentioned powders and finely chopped coriander leaves. Make equal sized balls of this mixture for stuffing.

4. Roll the dough into a cylinder, Cut equal four pieces from the dough.

5. Now take a rolling pin, add some flour and take each piece at a time.

6. Roll each piece evenly from all sides to form a small round circular shape around 2 cms radius. Now add the stuffing of mashed potatoes to the round circle and gently cover the stuffing by gently pulling the edges together to form a nice stuffed ball of dough. Now gently flatten the dough. Roll this stuffed dough gently more towards the edges.

7. Now heat a tava, once hot, roast the rolled dough. When one side is roasted, cover the roasted side with sufficient amount of ghee. Serve hot with curd or raita or pickle.

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