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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Aloo Paratha

After reading Michelle's and Aparna's blog posts, I decided to try my hand at an authentic Aloo Paratha instead of the one in the HBinFive book.

I used the recipe given in the video-tutorial that Aparna posted.  We have never eaten Aloo Paratha and I have to say it was quite good.  I boiled 2 soft-skinned yellow potatoes.  The instructions say to let them cool, then peel and grate them.  After letting them cool, I hand grated them with their skins on and the skins stayed in my fingers as I grated, so I was able to just pull them away in a few pieces and discard them.  It was so much quicker than peeling all those thin skins.  I added one clove of mashed garlic, salt, chili powder, masala, 1/2 an onion (diced), and some chopped cilantro.  After lightly mixing this together with my clean fingers, I rolled out 8 balls.

With a floured pin, I rolled my ww olive oil dough flat into rounds just big enough to enclose the potato balls.  Then I put the potato balls on top of the dough.  After pinching the top of the dough ball together, I turned it upside down, and carefully rolled the balls flat, about 1/8 inch thick.  Be gentle when rolling, so the vegetables don't poke through the dough.  It helped to have the ingredients diced and grated finely.  I put the breads in a medium-hot seasoned skillet and cooked until both sides had dark brown spots and the bread dough was cooked through.  The dough raised slightly and it was nice and soft.

I served them with Greek yogurt on the side as was suggested.  We liked them and they were very filling.  Since the recipe made 8 pancakes, we have leftovers.  I think I'll make a "burrito" with scrambled eggs inside for breakfast.  How's that for mixing cultures?

This was a good use for the WW with olive oil dough. Thanks Aparna, for inspiring me to try something authentic.  It was fun.

10 comments:

  1. Ahhhhh....nice! Gorgeous photos Bonnie! Your developing quite an eye for the camera!

    Bonnie, You won the jar of Coney Island Spice Mix. Please email me your full name and address so Marty and I can mail the Coney Mix to you ASAP!

    Michelle

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  2. I watched the video too and it almost inspired me to make it that way. So great job on trying it.

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  3. Your paratha look like they could have come from an Indian restaurant! Really quite delicious. I love the color you got on them.

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  4. Wow, Bonnie, these look so good! I was really intrigued with these too. Its fun to see how they turned out. And I love the idea of using them for a breakfast burrito! YUM

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  5. Fabulous! Love how they came out!

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  6. Beautiful photos! That Aloo Paratha looks really good.

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  7. yeah! a real paratha!! great job

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  8. this one looks cooked just to perfection. love that golden color

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  9. Really great!!! Great to see how the authentic one looks.

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