Aloo Paratha

Aloo Ka Paratha

When small cute newborn life is sent alone to earth, one angel is waiting for it to shower unconditional love. She takes care of everything required for that baby to grow and learn from eating, bathing, cleaning, walking, talking and many more. Child grows up but mothers don’t leave caring till life long and the magic they create in there food is memorable. And thats what we hear everywhere “Maa ke hath ka khana”. Yes Maa ke hath ke khaney ki baat hi kuch aur hai, isn’t it?
Maa ke hath ke ladoo, Maa ke hath ki dal, Maa ke hath ke parathey and many more.
Aisey hi ek Maa ke haath ka popular dish ki hum baat kar rahe hai “Aloo Ka Paratha”.
Aloo Ka Paratha is popular dish used as breakfast mostly all over India. As it is stomach filling dish so can be used for lunch or dinner also. Both kids and adults love aloo parathas. Parathas are Indian bread made with wheat flour. Aloo parathas are Indian bread stuffed with boiled mashed potatoes masala and then topped with butter, oil or ghee and cooked. It’s very tasty and people love eating it.
How To Make Aloo Paratha:

• Wash and boil 6 potatoes.
• Peel the potatoes, mash and keep aside.
• Finely chop some fresh coriander leaves and 1/2 onion.
• Grind 7-8 green chillies, 6-7 garlic pods, piece of ginger (inch) and pinch of cumin seeds to rough paste.
• Now heat 2 teaspoon oil in pan and add Ginger-garlic-chilly paste and cook till raw aroma for ginger garlic goes away.
• Now switch off the flame and put mashed potatoes in it.
• Put finely chopped coriander leaves and onion.
• Put salt and mix properly. Our aloo paratha stuffing is ready. If you want you can also add 1 teaspoon amchur powder, 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder, 1/2 teaspoon garam masala to the stuffing.
• Now knead soft dough for aloo paratha with wheat flour, little salt and water.
• Divide the dough into round equal parts.
• Now take a rolling pan and dry flour for dusting parathas.
• Heat tava for aloo parathas.
• Roll paratha till tava is getting heated. Take one round ball of dough, apply dry flour press it slightly in the centre with your thumb and make it deep with the help of your fingers.
• Stuff it with prepared mashed potato masala. Filling should be good enough.
• Now bring all the edges of the dough to the centre and seal it by pressing.
• Slightly flatten it, dust it with dry flour and slightly roll paratha such that it doesn’t break.
• Now our tava might have heated, place aloo paratha on tava and roll another paratha.
• Let our aloo paratha cook slightly from one side. You will notice paratha’s color has slightly changed. Flip the paratha to other side and let it cook.
• Apply butter or ghee to the aloo paratha and again flip it to other side.
• Apply butter or oil to this side of aloo paratha also. In short both the sides.
• Paratha will puff, cook paratha till it turns little crispy.
• Remove aloo paratha and keep aside.
• Now place your another paratha on tava and cook. Repeat the process for all aloo parathas.
• Switch off the flame and serve aloo paratha hot with your favorite chutney and chilled curd.

We will be back soon with more such Maa ke hath ke popular recipes.