Wheat flour Kulcha Recipe |Whole Wheat Aloo Stuffed Easy Kulcha Recipe

There are times when we feel like having a restaurant like meal at home. 

Are you tired of having whole wheat roti, poli or paratha everyday? So I recommend that you make this whole wheat kulcha and you will surely get praises and admiration from your loved ones.

As you know whole wheat is  more nutritious option as compared to plain flour( maida) and so we use whole wheat flour to make our daily chapati /paratha /poori. 


The combination of kulchas and potatoes is a common preparation served by food stall holders all over northern india. They are a particular feature at most restaurants that serve punjabi food. Khulchas are always associated with refined flour (maida), but here's a healthy version made with whole wheat flour. Specialty of this recipe is that it is made on the tava. If you have a tandoor though, cook the khulchas in it instead. Serve them hot off the tava along with the a delicious punjabi subzi of your choice.

You can even skip filling & make plain whole  wheat flour kulcha.I had served the kulcha with methi chole


Serves 7 kulchas

Ingredients :

Kulcha

Whole Wheat Flour / Atta / chapati flour - 2 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 (Owa/ajwain)  or cumin seeds (jeera/jira) - 1 tea spoon.


Garnishing

Nigella Seeds / Kalonji/ Black sesame seeds as needed
Coriander leaves as needed
Ghee or Butter for spreading over kulcha

Filling /stuffing
Potato - 300 gms. ( 3 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)



Method :

1.Sieve the wheat flour in a bowl and mix curd, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sugar, oil in it. Mix the ingredients well with hands.

2.Knead the flour with luke warm water to make a smooth dough. Apply oil to the dough and keep it in a covered  bowl  at a warm place. Within 3-4 hours the dough will rise.

3. Punch the dough once again to fix it. The dough to make kulcha is ready.

4. Peel and mash the boiled potatoes. mix  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.


5.Make 8-10 round balls of the dough. Make equal amount of small balls of the potato mixture also.



6.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  as shown below.


7.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 /black sesame seeds (kale til) / cumin seeds & few coriander leaves over the at the top of the kulcha.


8.You can bake the kulcha in oven, pan (tawa) or tandoor.

9.Heat a tava /pan . 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.



10.Serve the Potato stuffed kulchas with curd, chutney,mango pickle or chole recipe.