Whole Wheat Onion Stuffed Kulcha Recipe

Hina Gujral

January 3, 2017

6270 Ratings

Time:Prep: 2h 30m|Cook: 40 M|Total: 3h 10min

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Dinner

Cuisine:North Indian Recipes

The Whole Wheat Onion Kulcha Recipe is a traditional and simple recipe, that is flavored with a delicious onion and mint stuffing. The Onion Kulcha's are a common street food of Northern India and the most commonly served bread at Punjabi restaurants. Kulchas are most often made with Maida (all purpose flour), but in this recipe I have made a healthy version of the Kulcha using whole wheat flour. Speciality of this recipe if that it is made over the stove. But if you have Coal Tandoor Grill/Oven then Kulchas can be cooked in that too and it will have the tandoori flavor to it.

Serve the Whole Wheat Onion Kulchas along with a spoonful of butter with some delicious vegetable curry like Chole Pindi Recipe, or Amritsari Chole Recipe and Palak raita.

If you like this recipe, try more kulcha recipes like

Serve the Whole Wheat Onion Kulchas along with a spoonful of butter with some delicious vegetable curry like Chole Pindi Recipe, or Amritsari Chole Recipe and Palak raita.

If you like this recipe, try more kulcha recipes like

Ingredients

Ingredients for the kulcha dough

4 Whole Wheat Flour

1 Active dry yeast

1 Sugar

2 Garlic, finely chopped (or a teaspoon if garlic powder)

Salt, to taste

Lukewarm Water

Ingredients for the filling of kulcha

1 Onion

Coriander (Dhania) Leaves, small bunch, roughly torn

5 - 6 Mint Leaves (Pudina)

6 Garlic

Salt, to taste

1/2 Red Chilli powder

1/2 Turmeric powder (Haldi)

Instructions for Whole Wheat Onion Stuffed Kulcha Recipe

To begin making the Whole Wheat Onion Kulcha recipe, we will first prepare the dough and set it for rising.

To prepare the dough for Kulcha, sift flour with salt in a large bowl. Add yeast, salt, sugar, garlic powder or chopped garlic and stir to combine all the ingredients.

Add the lukewarm water little at a time and knead to make a soft and smooth dough. Knead well for about 5 minutes so the dough becomes light and fluffy.

Cover the dough and set it to rise in a warm place for a couple of hours or until it is doubled.

Once the dough has risen or close to its ready time, we will prepare the stuffing for the Kulchas.

Into a food processor add onion, mint, coriander, garlic and process to fine chop. If you are not using any food processor then make sure to fine chop all the four ingredients.

Once the dough gets doubled in size bring it out and ounch it with your fingers to release the trapped air.

To make kulchas, heat iron skillet over medium heat, pinch out a small portion from the dough and shape it into a round. Roll out the ball into a circle of approx 2 inch diameter. Spoon a tablespoon of filling into the center. Bring the corners of the dough to the centre to seal the Kulcha dough.

Once again gently flatten the ball with light pressure of your palm. Dust lightly on flour and roll it out into a circle without putting too much pressure on the kulcha else filling will ooze out from the sides.

Transfer the rolled out Kulcha dough to the hot skillet. Cook on both the sides until you see it starts puffing up. Once it does, transfer it to direct heat to puff up the Kulchas. While cooking over the direct heat make sure to flip the kulcha continuously to cook evenly from all sides.

While cooking over the direct heat make sure to flip the kulcha continuously to cook evenly from all sides. Proceed the same way with the remaining dough and filling

Serve the Whole Wheat Onion Kulcha's along with Chole Pindi Recipe, or Amritsari Chole Recipe and Palak raita.