Aloo Paranthe!

Time for some cooking! I love cooking, and over time have conjured up many delicacies in my kitchen. Not all though, ended up the way I wanted them to be! But this fondness of mine for cooking wasn't planned but something that I was forced out to do. It happened when I traveled abroad for the first time in my life. US of A to be precise. Living in Chicago with no relatives or friends made it very difficult to sustain myself, and being a pure vegetarian did not help matters. How long can one survive on MacDonald's French Fries? Cornered, I subdued myself to take the matters in my hand. (I cannot help but notice the unintentional pun the word hand has here). On a windy and cloudy Chicago morning, I got to to kitchen to make am Omelette. The choice of Omelette was obvious as this would be safest option to start with and I had observed people in my college mess making the same. How wrong can somebody be! The exercise turned out to be the way the weather was outside. From there on, I improved myself during my stay in Chicago,and learned to be a much better cook than I started out with. There after during my subsequent trips abroad, I started enjoying cooking, mastered the art and professed the same while at home in India.

Yesterday, the chef in me thought of trying something that I haven't tried before and I prepared Aloo Paranthe, which means Stuffed Potato Bread. My wife was at the receiving end of this experiment, and she liked it. Below are some snaps of this exercise -

                                                       The stuffing

                                           Add the stuffing to the dough

                                    Aloo Paranthe with chutneys and pickle

Enjoy!