Bread roll in air fryer
Bread roll is an Indian vegan deep fried appetizer commonly made with potato stuffing.
Equipment
- Air Fryer
Ingredients
FOR STUFFING
- 5-6 big or 8-10 small potatoes (boiled & peeled)
- 1/2 cup green peas (boiled)
- 1/2 cup onion (finely chopped)
- 2 green chilies (chopped)
- 1/2 tsp carom seeds
- Red chilli powder to taste
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp dry mango powder (or lemon juice)
- 2 tbsp fresh coriander (chopped)
- Salt to taste
FOR MAKING ROLLS
- 14 Bread slices of your choice (we used whole wheat bread)
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Oil for brushing rolls
- Some drinking water in a wide bowl or plate
Instructions
MAKING OF STUFFING
- Take a bowl and add potatoes.
- Roughly mash them with a potato masher.
- Add green peas, onion, green chilies, carom seeds, red chilli powder, garam masala, coriander powder, dry mango powder, fresh coriander and salt.
- Give them a good mix. At this stage do taste them and adjust the seasoning if required. Keep aside.
FOR MAKING ROLLS
- Take a slice of bread and dip it in water just for 1-2 seconds. The idea is just to moist the bread slice so that it becomes flexible for rolling. If you over wet the bread, it will break.
- Squeeze the bread slice between your palm to drop out extra water. But be careful not to break the slice.
- Make an oval shaped ball of potato stuffing and while keeping the moist bread slice in your open palm, place ball in the center of the slice.
- Gently fold the bread and join the edges. Press the edges and seal them. Also press the top and bottom parts and seal them giving it a neat oval shape. (watch video attached to this post for better understanding).
- Coat the rolls in breadcrumbs.
- Put the rolls in air fryer basket and brush them with oil.
- Air Fry @180°C for 30 minutes (time may vary depending on air fryer) or until rolls turn brown and crisp.
- Bread rolls are ready. Serve hot with tomato ketchup or any dip of your choice.
Notes
- You may add any other veggies too of your choice along with potatoes.
- The size and quantity of bread rolls will also depend upon the size of bread slice.
- You may remove the outer crust of the bread. As this too is edible, we didn't find any logical reason to cut that part.
- Instead of air frying, you can bake the rolls as well.
- The another common option is to deep fry the rolls. But in such a case you need to be extra cautious that there shouldn't be any open area all over the bread. If there's any, the filling will leak out in oil while frying.