Punjabi Aloo Paratha Recipe – Stuffed Potato Paratha Recipe

• Atta/Wheat flour – 2 cups ( i used aashirvaad)
• Water – as needed ( I used 1 cup + 1/2 tbsp)
• Oil – 1/2 tbsp
• Salt – as needed

For the stuffing

• Potato – 4 nos (medium sized)
• Ajwain/Omam – 1/2 tsp
• Ginger – 1/2 inch piece ( grated or finely chopped)
• Green chilli – 1 no ( finely chopped)
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp ( I used 3/4 tsp)
• Garam masala powder – 3/4 tsp
• Chat masala powder – 1/2 tsp
• Anardana powder/Pomegranate seeds powder OR Amchoor powder – 1/4 tsp(optional)
• Cumin powder/Jeera powder – 1/2 tsp
• Finely chopped coriander leaves – few tbsp
• Salt – as needed

• In a wide bowl,take the flour and add salt. Mix well. Make a dent in the center and add water little by little. Gather the flour and make a soft and smooth dough. Lastly add 1/2 tbsp of oil and cover the dough. Spread well and set aside for sometime till you make the stuffing.

• In a pressure cooker base,wash and add the potatoes along with required water. Cook for 3-4 whistles. Take the cooked potatoes, peel the skin and mash them very well without any lumps. (This is the first most important point to make the stuffing prevent oozing out). 

• To the mashed potatoes, add all spice powders, ajwain, finely chopped green chillies, grated ginger and coriander leaves. Mix them well adding the required salt. Check for taste and add more spice powders if needed. Make golf sized balls out of the stuffing and set aside.

• Now take the dough & knead it really well by greasing your hands with oil. Make balls from the dough equal to the size of the stuffing ball.

• Take an obbattu sheet greased with oil & place the dough ball & stuffing ball. Press the dough ball into a small circle. Make sure the sides of ball is thinner than the center .Now place the stuffing ball in the center.Bring the edges of the dough and cover the stuffing ball. Press it and put few drops of oil on the stuffed dough ball. Place another polythene sheet over the stuffed dough and pat it well to make a round thick or thin paratha as you wish. In this method, you don’t need to dust the paratha in flour. Just few drops of oil would do.

• If u don’t want to follow this method, just stuff the filling in the dough as mentioned above. Dust the balls in wheat flour and roll it using a rolling pin. For this method, you don’t need oil but you have dust the paratha with wheat flour. Excessive dusting may result in dry paratha.So take care.

• Now heat the dosa tawa and drizzle some oil. If using obbattu sheet for rolling, transfer the entire sheet with paratha over the dosa pan and remove the sheet. Cook the paratha only in medium flame on both sides by drizzling some oil around  & all over the paratha. Remove & serve hot with raita !Enjoy !