Aloo ka cheela recipe | Kute Huea Aloo
Aloo ka Chilla recipe, also called Kute Hue Aloo, is a simple Indian potato pancake made with grated potatoes and spices.
Ingredients
- 4 potatoes
- Small piece of ginger
- 1/2 tsp carom seeds
- 2 green chilies
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/4 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp dry mango powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Oil
Instructions
- Wash the potatoes very well. As we are using potatoes with skin, so they need to be washed extremely well by rubbing all around so that there remains no dust or sand stick to them.
- Put the potatoes in a Mortar. Alternatively you can grate the potatoes.
- Crush the potatoes with pestle. But do not make a paste, it should remain in chunks.
- Then add ginger and green chilies.
- Crush them too.
- Thereafter add all the other ingredients i.e. carom seeds, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala, dry mango powder, and salt.
- Give a crush to them as well.
- Mix everything so well.
- Take a non stick pan/tawa and spread some oil on it.
- Put the potato mixture and spread all over the pan.
- Also line the edges so that cheela remains round in shape.
- Put a lid and let it cook underneath on low heat until it is done from one side It may take 5 to 7 minutes.
- Remove the lid and drop some oil on the top of chilla.
- Very carefully, turn the down side up and cook from other side too.
- When the potato mixture turns brown from both the sides, take it out and also cook the second one.
- Aloo ka cheela, which is also called kute hue aloo, is ready. Enjoy with hot roti.
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Notes
- You may peel the potatoes if you like.
- You can keep the size of cheelas as per your liking. If making small, you can have more than 1 cheela.