North Indian
Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread)
Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3 cups whole wheat flour (atta)
- 4 potato
- 2 green chilies
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 4 tbsp ghee
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Knead the flour with a little salt, a spoon of ghee, and enough water into a soft dough, then rest it for 15 minutes.
- Boil and mash the potatoes with the green chilies, ginger, cilantro, red chili powder, garam masala, and salt.
- Roll a ball of dough into a small round, place a scoop of filling in the center, gather the edges to seal, and roll out gently into a paratha.
- Cook on a hot griddle, smearing ghee on both sides, until golden brown spots appear, about 2 minutes per side.
- Repeat with the rest and serve the parathas hot.
Serve it with
A North Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Masala Omelette |
| Gluten | Yes | Masala Omelette |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on wheat flour, potato, and ghee.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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