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. The stuffing which I am presenting here is very simple and easy to make. This Aloo Paratha recipe is my mom-in-law’s recipe.

Aloo Parathas are a hot item at our place. In Punjab the parathas are made with lots of ghee and then served with dollops of white butter or makhan. White butter can be easily made at home. One can get end number of parathas like gobi paratha, mooli paratha, lachedar paratha, methi paratha, paneer paratha etc.

Ingredients for Aloo Paratha Recipe:

• 4/5 potatos 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 corainder 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

Method for making Aloo Paratha Recipe:

• Firstly, boil the potatos and peel them.

• Chop the potatoes and add all the spice powders, green chillies, salt.

• Mash the potatos with the spice mixtures.

• Dust the board with wheat flour. Take well kneaded dough made from wheat flour. Take 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.

• Alternatively, you could do this technique too. Take a piece of dough. Roll it out in a small circle. Now put the aloo filling in the center of the rolled out dough.

• Take it in your palm and bring all the edges together as shown in pic below.

• Now by applying pressure with your fingers press the edges down.

• Apply some wheat flour on this stuffed dough or dust the rolling board with wheat flour. Gently roll the stuffed dough with a rolling pin. Make sure that the parathas do not break. Dust with more flour if required. Roll it into a size of a normal roti or chapati.

• Now put the rolled al00 parantha on a hot griddle.

• Fry the aloo paratha with ghee as you would usually fry the parathas.

• I usually make the paratha, keep it in the roti basket and top the paratha with homemade butter. This way I stack all the aloo parathas in the roti basket.

• You could even serve the aloo paratha… hot… direct from the tava with white butter or curd or mango pickle.

Tips for making the Aloo Paratha:

• To make this dough, I have not used oil or ghee. But to make it more soft, you can add 1 or 2 teaspoon of ghee or oil.
• The aloo mixture can be made according to your taste and liking. You can also add roasted cumin seeds powder/jeera powder, rock salt, coriander powder. You can experiment and come out with a wonderful recipe.
• To the aloos, you can also add other boiled and mashed veggies like peas, carrot, french beans, also grated cheese and paneer, to make it more nutritious and you have your mix veg paratha.
• Always cut the onions, chillies, corainder leaves very finely. Also, the aloo should be mashed very well. There should not be any lumps or small pieces in it. This is so, so that, the prarathas do not break while rolling.
• To get the slight sourness and tanginess in the paratha, I have used amchur (dried mango powder), but you could also use dried pomegranate seeds powder (anardana powder)

More Aloo Recipes from the blog:

• Dry Aloo Matar Recipe
• Jeera Aloo Recipe
• Punjabi Dum Aloo Recipe
• Kashmiri Dum Aloo Recipe
• Aloo Chaat – Navratri Fasting Recipe