Amritsari Aloo Kulcha
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INGREDIENTS
Ingredients to make Kulcha.
Maida (white flour) - 400 gms. (3 cup)
Curd - 3 table spoon.
Baking soda - 1/3 tea spoon.
Baking powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
Sugar - 1 tea spoon.
Oil - 1 table spoon.
Salt - 3/4 tea spoon (or according to the taste)
Carom seeds or cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon.
Ingredients to prepare the filling.
Potato - 300 gms. ( 4 boiled)
Salt - 1/2 tea spoon (or according to the taste)
Green chilli - 1-2 (chopped)
Ginger - 1 inch long piece (grated)
Amchoor powder - 1/2 tea spoon.
Coriander powder - 1 tea spoon.
Red chilli powder - 1-2 pinch.
Garam masala - 1/4 tea spoon
Coriander leaves - 1 table spoon (chopped)
INSTRUCTIONS
Knead the flour to make Kulcha.
- Sieve the maida in a bowl and mix curd, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, oil in it. Mix the ingredients well with hands. Knead the flour with luke warm water to make a smooth dough. Flip and punch the dough for 5 minutes to make it smooth. Apply oil to the dough and keep it in a deep pan. Cover the bowl with clean towel and keep it at a warm place. Within 3-4 hours the dough will rise. Punch the dough once again to fix it. The dough to make kulcha is ready.
- Knead the flour to make Kulcha. Sieve the maida in a bowl and mix curd, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, oil in it. Mix the ingredients well with hands. Knead the flour with luke warm water to make a smooth dough. Flip and punch the dough for 5 minutes to make it smooth. Apply oil to the dough and keep it in a deep pan. Cover the bowl with clean towel and keep it at a warm place. Within 3-4 hours the dough will rise. Punch the dough once again to fix it. The dough to make kulcha is ready.
Prepare the Filling to stuff the Kulcha.
- Peel and mash the boiled potatoes. Put salt, green chilli, ginger, coriander powder, amchoor powder, red chilli powder, garam masala and coriander leaves. Mix all the spices well with the mashed potatoes. The filling to stuff the kulcha is ready.Now Prepare Kulcha
- Make 8-10 round balls of the dough. Make equal amount of small balls of the potato mixture also.
- Take one ball of the dough and roll it into a flat disc of 3 inch. Put the potato mixture ball on the disc and press it with hands so it settles down on the dough. Fold and close the disc from all the sides to make a kulcha.
- Dust the kulcha with dry maida and press it with light hands to increase its size upto 3 inch. Now roll the kulcha into a flat disc of 6-7 inch with the roller. Fix some carom seeds or cumin seeds over the top of the kulcha.
It's time to Bake the Kulcha.
- You can bake the kulcha in oven, pan (tawa) or tandoor.
- To make the kulcha in a pan, put it over the stove and grease it with little oil. Put the kulcha in the pan and roast it until it turns brown from the bottom surface. Pour some oil or ghee on the upper surface once the lower surface turns brown. Roast it till both the surface turns brown in colour. Prepare all the kulchas in the same manner.
- Serve the Potato stuffed kulchas with curd, chutney or chole recipe.Bake the Kulchas in the oven.
- To bake the kulcha in an oven grease a tray with oil. Put 2 kulchas in the pan and pre-heat the oven at 300 centigrade. Place the tray in an oven and bake the kulcha for 2 minutes. Flip the side of the kulchas after 2 minutes and bake again till both the surfaces turn brown in colour. Now take out the tray from the oven and serve the hot baked kulchas with curd, aloo matar, pickle or chole recipe.
Source: nishamadhulika
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