Aloo paratha recipe | Aalu ka paratha
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Aloo paratha recipe is very easy to make. It is basically a flattened bread filled with stuffed potatoes and other spices. You will learn how to make aloo paratha recipe with step by step photos and video instructions.
It is basically from the Punjab state in India. Their people love to have this in the breakfast. This aloo paratha is not limited to breakfast. People have it in lunch as well as in dinner.
It is one of the best tiffin recipes for kids and elders. All love these parathas in their lunch.
In Punjab, mothers make it with very love and affection for their families. It is also very famous in the whole North India and some other states as well. We all love to have it.
We love to have aloo ka paratha in winters. It looks so tasty when it served hot with butter on top of it and accompanied with hot tea. It is a perfect meal in the winters. But it does not mean we do not have it in the summers. We have its whole year.
Different varieties of paratha
There are other varieties of paratha also we make in our home. We can make mix aloo (potato) with chopped onion and make paratha of it. There are completely different versions of paratha also you can try.
You can try radish (mooli) paratha, gobhi (cauliflower) paratha, onion paratha, cheeni (sugar) paratha, paneer paratha (Indian cheese paratha), meethi (Fenugreek) paratha etc.
There are some creative ways of making paratha like potatoes and cheese, onion and cheese etc.
Aloo paratha is accompanied with the plain curd, mango pickle (or any other pickle like a lemon pickle, chillies pickle etc), raitas, dhaniya pudina chutney, butter or ghee, hot tea, lassi etc.
You can read more about aloo raita and onion raita recipe on my blog.
When you make recipes that create smoke-like parathas, frying vegetables or puris, etc., makes your kitchen chimney dirty. Regular cleaning of chimney filters is required. You can read my post in which I have mentioned steps for cleaning chimney filters at home without spending any money at all.
Tips of making aloo paratha
- Put a little bit of ghee or oil while making dough for paratha. This makes paratha or roti soft.
- I have put salt in the dough. So, add salt to the potato according.
- Mash potatoes properly, if big pieces of potatoes are left then the paratha will break while making it.
You can also read other recipes for aloo (potatoes)
Stuffed shimla mirch (bharwa shimla mirch)
Dum aloo recipe
Masala aloo recipe
Brinjal (Eggplant) and Potato Recipe (Aloo Baingan ki Sabzi Recipe)
Aloo (potato) Gobhi ki Sabzi Recipe | Dhaba Style Aloo Gobhi Recipe
Potato (Aloo) and cabbage (Patta Gobhi ) ki Sabzi
Amritsari Aloo kulcha
Samosa Recipe
Aloo paratha recipe video
Aloo Paratha Recipe – 2 ways to make it
Ingredients
- Atta dough
- 3-4 big size boiled potatoes
- 3-4 finely chopped green chilies
- 4 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
- 2 inch piece of grated ginger
- ½ lemon juice optional
- Cooking oil for making tadka and roasting paratha
- Salt according to taste
- ½ teaspoon haldi (turmeric) powder
- 1½ teaspoon coriander (dhaniya) powder
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala (optional)
- 1 teaspoon dried mango powder (amchur masala ) (optional)
Instructions
Stuffing of without tadka
- Grate the boiled potatoes or mash it with hands.
- Put half chopped green chilies in potatoes
- Add half of the grated ginger
- Add half of chopped coriander leaves
- Add salt in it
- Add 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Add ½ teaspoon red chili powder
- Add amchur powder (dry mango powder) in it.
- Mix all the with the help of spoon or hands. This potato mixture is ready.
Steps for making potato masala with tadka
- Heat the pan in the gas stove
- Add 2 tablespoon cooking oil on the pan and heat it.
- Add green chilies and grated ginger. And saute it until the raw aroma of ginger and garlic goes away.
- Add ½ teaspoon haldi powder, coriander powder and red chili powder
- Add salt as per taste
- cook all spices in it until it releases oil from it
- Add grated potatoes and mix it well
- Add chopped coriander leaves on top of it and mix it well.
- Squeeze lemon juice on top of it for a tangy flavor. It is an optional ingredient. You can avoid it also.
Rolling and stuffing paratha
- Pinch a medium size ball of dough. Dip it into flour on both sides.
- Put it on rolling board (chakla). Spread it little with the help of fingers.
- Roll it slowly with the help of rolling pin (belan). Roll it until its size become 6-7 inches.
- Put potato stuffing between the center of it. And make sure the 3 inches space is left from the corners.
- Now carefully seal all the corners. homemade sealing the corners bring all the edges together and pinch to seal the edges. You can watch the video of mine for checking how to seal the edges of paratha.
- Sealing should be done properly otherwise there will be gaps while rolling and the filling comes out of it.
- Spread the dough with the help of fingers.
- Dip it into flour on both sides or sprinkle it with flour.
- Roll it slowly and make the paratha until its size becomes 6 inches approx. It’s size around of chapati or roti’s size.
Steps for making aloo paratha recipe
- Heat the tawa (skillet or griddle or tava) on the stove.
- Tawa should not be at low temperature. Otherwise, paratha will become hard.
- Place the rolled paratha on it.
- Flip the paratha, when base is partially cooked.
- Spread some oil (or ghee) with the help of spoon on partly cooked part.
- Flip it again. And this time the other side should be more cooked than the previous homemade. You will see little brown spots on the paratha
- Spread some oil (or ghee) on this side also.
- Flip again once or twice until it cooked from both sides.
- Press the edges of the paratha with the spoon to cook it properly from all the sides.
- It should be golden brown from both of the sides.
- Serve it directly on the plate. Put some homemade butter on top of it. And serve it the other things which I mentioned earlier in this post.
Notes
- You can put other things in the stuffing of it like chopped onion, peas, paneer etc. to enhance its taste and make it full of nutrients.
- You can add amchur powder for adding a tangy flavor on it. If you don’t have amchur powder then you can add anardana powder as well.
- Always finely chop the onion, chilies, coriander leaves etc. while making paratha so that it cannot break.
- You can increase or decrease the spiciness of it by increasing or decreasing the quantity of red chili and green chili in it.
- You can add cumin seeds in the potato mixture adding more flavor to it.
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