Aloo Paratha
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoon oil (vegetable or olive)
- 2/3 cup warm water
- ¼ cup whole wheat flour for dusting while rolling the chapatti
- ½ cup oil to brush over the cooked paratha
- 5 large potatoes
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 bunch chopped fresh coriander leaves
Directions
Prepare the potato stuffing
- Cook the potatoes.
- Mash the potatoes in a mixing bowl.
- Add the ground coriander, cumin, cayenne pepper, and fresh coriander leaves and mix.
- Form 10 equal potato balls set aside until the dough is ready to roll.
Prepare the dough and stuff with potatoes
- Place the flour in a large mixing bowl and add salt and oil.
- Mix the ground spices into the above mixture.
- Add warm water and mix the ingredients, until it adheres together to form a ball.
- Knead the dough for 5 minutes and cover and set aside for at least ½ hour.
- Set the griddle over moderately low heat to preheat for 5 minutes.
- Take the kneaded dough and divide into 10 pieces – roughly 3 inch balls.
- Take one ball at a time and roll them in the dry whole wheat flour.
- Roll the ball into flat ½ inch thick, 4 inches in diameter.
- Place one potato ball in the center and fold the dough around it.
- Again, dip the ball in wheat flour.
- Roll out the dough until it is ½ thick, 6 inches in diameter.
- Put it on the heated griddle, it should be flat without any wrinkles.
- Cook for 1 minute on the first side, turn it over.
- Cook for 1 more minute on the second side, add ½ teaspoon of oil and cook. The paratha will swell with steam and puff into a balloon.
- Remove from griddle and set aside in a clean dish.
- Repeat the process for each ball and complete all 10.
- Stack the paratha’s and cover when cool.