Amritsari Kulche - Stuffed bread filled with potatoes

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Wanna try something new on a weekend morning or to entertain guests .

It's time to impress with this easy but definitely impressive dish which comes from Punjab. I am making oven version here but you can choose to make tawa version as well. Have this with pickle yogurt or with any curry.

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🍳Recipe Serving -2                                       
⏲Cooking  time -20 min
Prep time - 4-5 hours (overnight)                                                 
🍽Cuisine - Indian
Difficulty level- Easy as                                            Diet - Vegetarian

Ingredients

- For Kulche and others

-High grade flour(Maida)- 1cup
-Yogurt or Curd - 2 tablespoon
-Yeast - 1 teaspoon🥄 
-Sugar - 1 teaspoon
-Salt - 1 teaspoon
-Butter - 4 tablespoon
-Cumin seeds -2 teaspoon
-Coriander seeds - 2 teaspoon                                          -Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup finely chopped       

-For stuffing

-Boiled potatoes - 2 medium
-Red Onion- 1 finely chopped
-Green chillies -2 finely  chopped(optional)
-Coriander leaves (steal from the above ingredients)
-Ginger -finely  chopped or grated
-Salt - as per taste
-Butter - 1 tablespoon(taken from above)
-Chaat masala/Aamchur powder - 1 teaspoon                                       

Step 1 - Setting up the dough

1. Add yeast to 2 tablespoon of lukewarm water and keep aside for 10min                    2. In a bowl,add maida and yogurt and mix it  nicely to form a texture, 
   now slowly add yeast water and make a dough with light hands .Make 
   sure the dough should not be very runny or hard.                              3. Cover the dough  with wet cloth and leave it overnight in room 
   temperature.                 

Step 2 - Masala

In a pan roast  cumin and coriander seeds for 2-3 min until  you  can smell the aroma and then coarsely  grind them with a belan or Mortar and pestle and keep  this aside for later use both  in stuffing and on kulcha.

Step 3 - Let's make the stuffing

1. Mash potatoes and then add finely  chopped onion,coriander 
   leaves,ginger,salt,chaat masala and mix together.                                    2. Now add  1 teaspoon of cumin and coriander masala as made above
3. Also add 1 teaspoon of butter and mix to make the filling  smooth.

Step 4 - Let's cook (all prep done)

1. The dough should be double the size now,add salt and 1 teaspoon of 
   butter and mix the dough with light hand keeping the fluffiness 
   intact.divide it  in 4 portions
2. Fill in the stuffing in each portion, close them and with hand 
   flat round flatbread to distribute the stiffing evenly.
3. Now roll the flatbread like stuffed paratha making sure the stuffing 
   doesn't come out.
4. Sprinkle coriander and cumin masala and coriander leaves and press 
   with fingers in few places so  that Kulche does not rise like a 
   poori.
5. Heat oven to 200 degree in grill mode and let it heat first.                                      
6. In an oven pan,place the kulche and bake for 7-10min until the top 
   layer changes color to  light  brown. 
7. Add butter on top and serve Hot !!

** If you don't have oven, you can make this in tawa or kadhai, just  
   make sure it's on high heat

** If you don't  have yeast, you  can add 1/2 teaspoon of baking  soda 
   and baking  powder and make kulche instantly, no need to  wait  
   overnight 😊