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Bread Potato Rolls
Bread with potato filling makes a mouthwatering snack.
This is a perfect snack with afternoon tea or served as an
appetizer. Bread Potato Rolls are crunchy outside, spicy and
soft inside. Easy to prepare.
Makes 8 Bread Rolls
INGREDIENTS
• 4 bread slices (bread should be firm) • 1/8 teaspoon red chili powder
• 2 medium potatoes, boiled, peeled, and mashed (this • ½ teaspoon mango powder (amchoor)
makes about 1¼ cup mashed potatoes) • 1 tablespoon cilantro (hara dhania), finely chopped
• ¼ cup green peas, boiled • 1 green chili (hari mirch), minced (adjust to taste)
• 1 teaspoon oil • 1 teaspoon ginger, finely chopped
• ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera) • Oil for frying
• ½ teaspoon salt
METHOD
1. Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the cumin seed. When water. This makes the bread moist.
the cumin seed starts to crack, add green peas, green chili, 7. Place the filling in the center of this bread and mold the
and ginger, and stir for a few seconds. bread to completely cover it all around, giving an oval
2. Add the potatoes and all the spices (chili powder, mango shape.
powder, salt, cilantro) and stir-fry for a minute. Turn off the 8. Repeat to make all the rolls. Before frying, let them sit for
heat. about five minutes. (This will evaporate some of the water
3. Taste the mixture; it should be a little spicier than you like, from the bread so that it absorbs less oil while frying,
as it will taste milder inside the bread. Set aside. making the bread rolls crisper.)
4. Trim the edges of the bread slices and cut them into two 9. Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium high heat. Drop the
pieces. Set aside. rolls slowly into it, taking care not to overlap them.
5. Roll 1½ tablespoons of the mixture at a time into an oval 10. Fry the bread rolls until they are golden brown, turning
shape. Make twelve rolls. (The size of the potato rolls will occasionally. This should take about two to three minutes.
depend on the size of the bread.) Take them out over a paper towel.
6. Fill a small bowl with water to wet the bread.Dip one side 11. Serve them hot with hari cilantro chutney and tamarind
of a slice of the bread lightly in the water. Place the slice sweet and sour chutney.
between your palms and press, squeezing out the excess
SUGGESTIONS
Serve them hot with hari cilantro chutney and tamarind sweet and sour chutney.
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