Aaloo Parantha - Failed Attempt

On one of these sunday mornings, away from mother and motherland, I decided to try my hands at one of the favorite punjabi breakfast dishes, Aloo Parantha.

As usual, I called up mom(Thank you Skype) and confirmed the recipe for Aloo Paranthas. It was Sunday, almost 11:00am, planning to make it a brunch, the stage was all set.

So here is what I did,
1. Boiled potatos(2-3 medium sized for about 5 paranthas)
2. Mashed potato's and added chopped onions(one medium size), salt, red chilli and garam-masala.
3. Prepare whole wheat dough
4. Make dough balls, small enough to make one parantha. After this failed attempt, I realized that its always easy to cook thin aloo paranthas, so make sure the dough per ball is not too much(you'll learn over time)
5. Roll a dough ball in to small sized chapati, add mixture to the center and close it from all sides.
6. Run the dough ball through dry flour and roll the stuffed ball evenly on all sides, in to relatively bigger chapati.
7. Put the parantha on a hot tava and evenly spread oil and cook well on both sides.

That's it, enjoy while you can!

I screwed up at following,
1. The dough ball was too big.
2. Mashed potato mixture should be proportionate to size of dough ball.
3. Evenly roll out stuffed dough ball. trust me, its not going to be easy in first few attempts, especially when the dough has not been knead the right way.
4. Tawa should be hot before you put parantha on it.

Hope to come over them in coming days.