Easy Iftar Recipe : Aloo Paratha Recipe

This aloo paratha recipe is paratha stuffed with aloo/ mixture. The aloo or mixture can be made as per your taste and flavour.You can make it as your iftar recipe...

Ingredients for Aloo Paratha Recipe:

•     4/5 potatoes boiled and mashed
•     1 onion chopped finely (optional)
•     1 green chilli chopped finely
•     Half tsp chilli powder (optional)
•     Half tsp of garam masala powder
•     1 tsp amchur/dry mango powder
•     salt
•     ghee
•     a few coriander leaves chopped finely (optional)
•     dough made from whole wheat flour. Here you will find my post on making the basic wheat flour   dough: Preparing whole wheat flour dough for rotis, chappatis or paranthas
•     white butter

Instructions :

•     firstly, boil the potatos and peel them.
•     chop the potatoes and add all the spice powders, green chilies, salt.
•     mash the potatoes with the spice mixtures.
•     make two medium sized balls from the dough and roll these into a circle of about 3 or 3.5 inches.
•     take a portion of the aloo mixture and spread it on one of the rolled dough.
•     cover this dough with the second rolled dough.
•     press the edges of both the rolled dough firmly.
•     apply some dry flour and roll into a disc of about 8 inches or about the size of a normal roti or chapati.
•     (another method is explained in the pictorial step above)
•     put the rolled aloo parantha on a hot griddle.
•     fry the aloo paratha with ghee as you would usually fry the parathas.
•     serve the aloo paratha hot with white butter or curd or mango pickle.