Aloo Paratha: My Lifelong Battle With Stuffing
I genuinely don't think I've met anyone who dislikes aloo paratha. Pizza has haters. Pasta has haters. Even dosa has haters, which frankly feels illegal to me. But aloo paratha somehow manages to win almost everybody over. And for me, aloo paratha is special because it was my first paratha. Not gobi. Not paneer. Not methi. Aloo. Maybe that's why every time I make it, I still get excited. Now, something very funny about me is that after all these years, after making parathas on and off, after watching countless videos, after convincing myself every single time that I have finally figured it out, there is still one thing I haven't mastered. Stuffing it. Seriously. Give me the potato stuffing and give me the dough, and somehow I will find a way to create a disaster. Either I take too much dough and the paratha tastes more like a thick chapati with a tiny surprise of potato hidden somewhere inside, or I get overconfident and add so much stuffing that the entire thing starts...