“Punjabi kulcha”

“Punjabi kulcha” recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Punjabi | Recipe Category: Lunch/Dinner
Prep Time: 3 hour    | Cook time: 10 mins     | Serves: 2-3

Kulcha dough  Ingredients:

1 large cup maida (all-purpose flour)

1 teaspoon oil

Cold water for kneading

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon yogurt

1 pinch Baking soda

Filling  Ingredients:

4-5 large potatoes(boiled)

3-4 teaspoon Coriander leave(finely chopped)

1 teaspoon garam masala powder

½ teaspoon coriander powder

½ teaspoon red chilly powder

1/4 teaspoon  cumin powder

2 green chilly(finely chopped)

¼ teaspoon ajwain (Thymol seeds)

                                      

Kitchen utensils required:

• 1 Spatula (I prefer: PINDIA Wooden Curved Spoons)
• 15 bowls (I prefer: Borosil Mixing Bowl)
• 1 non-stick tava (I prefer: Vinod Cookware Dosa Tava)
• 1 Chopper (I prefer: Genius Nicer Dicer Plus Multi Chopper Vegetable Cutter Fruit slicer)
• 1 cooker (I prefer: Prestige Popular Aluminum Pressure Cooker, 3 Liters)

• 1 Water jug

                                                




                                                  Step by step procedure:

Prepare dough

Step-1 Take bowl, add maida, ghee, suji, salt, sugar, yogurt. Mix everything very well.

Step-2 Add cold water and knead the dough very well.

Step-3 Keep aside dough for 2-3 hours in a warm place.

Prepare filling for dough

Step-1 Boil potatoes in a cooker, now take boiled potatoes, mesh them. Now add all the filling ingredients in it. Add salt as per your taste.

Step-2 Make small balls out of all the prepared filling. 

Make kulcha

Step-1 Take out bowl of dough. Now take small part (big lemon size) of dough. Now with the help of rolling pin roll it in shape of puri. Now put small lemon size filling in that and close it very well. Take dry all-purpose flour and with the help of rolling pin roll it to the desire shape and size. Similarly prepare all the kulcha’s from the dough and the filling.

Step-2 Heat nonstick tava, put kulcha on it. Add finely chopped coriander leaves on one side of kulcha and then press it either with your hands or with spoon. Now cook it from both the sides. 

When done put ghee on it.

Serve hot with yogurt, green chutney, tomato catch-up, vinegar onion.

Here is recipe of green chutney and vinegar onion for you all:

1- Prepare green chutney

Ingredients

1/2 cup coriander leaves

2-3 green chilly

2-3 garlic cloves

¼ teaspoon mango powder

Salt and water as you prefer

Method

Take grinder, add all the ingredients of the chutney. Add water and salt as per you like. Now make fine paste out of it. Your green chutney is ready.

2- Prepare vinegar onion

Ingredients

2 small onions (cut in shape as you like)

1 cup cold water

2 teaspoon vinegar

Salt as per you like

 

Method

Take onion. Cut it into shape as you like. Dip it in cold water for 5-6 minutes. Now remove water and then wash it with normal water. Take it in a bowl. Add vinegar, salt. Mix it well. Keep it aside for 3-4 minutes. Vinegar onions are ready.