Aaloo bun

Aaloo bun (Potato bun) is one of the most delicious snack invented in Bangalore bakeries ever. Anyone living or lived in Bangalore will know what I am talking about. When I was working in Bangalore whenever it rained, I would go straight to one of the bakeries near by and buy this aaloo bun and have it with a cup of ginger tea and its heavenly! There is a bakery in almost every street of Bangalore. We miss these buns a lot especially during monsoon season. My sister bought me a bread machine couple of years ago and I started experimenting various different things with it. I used to make aaloo buns before, using conventional oven but now since I have this Bread machine, the things are much simpler now and easier. I tried various different ways and finally selected the best one.

Ingredients for the cover:
Water – 100 ml (I added onion and other herbs which has some water content and hence reduced to 100 ml, if no onion or herbs added then 280ml of water is required)
Oil – 2 tablespoon
Salt – 1 Teaspoon
Sugar – 1 Tablespoon
Bread flour – 500 grams
Bread improver – 1/2 teaspoon
Milk powder – 1 tablespoon
Yeast – 1 packet (1.5 teaspoon)
Butter – 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon
Dil herb – 1 tablespoon
Onion – 1/2 cup
Red pepper – 1/2 cup
Red chilli powder – 1 tablespoon
Garam masala – 1 tablespoon

Ingredients for filling:

Oil for seasoning
Musturd seeds
Cumin seeds
1/4 cup Green capcsicum
Chillies to taste
4 large onions
About 15 to 20 medium sized potato
Salt to taste
1 spoon dill
Chilli powder to taste
Coriander leaves to garnish

Method for the cover:

1. Add water to the bread machine tumbler.

2. Add oil

3. Add salt

4. Add sugar

5. Add butter

6. Add bread flour

7. Add cumin seeds

8. Add dill

9. Add bread improver

10. Add milk powder

11. Add yeast

12. Add finely chopped red pepper

13. Add finely chopped onions

14. Add chilli powder

15. Add garam masala

16. Now put this tumbler back into the bread machine and sleect the option 'dough only' and start ther machine.

17. Keep watch when its mixing to make sure the water content is enough, if not just add a little more water else if water is more and dough seems to be sticking, then add little flour to make it consistent.

18. While the bread machine is preparing the dough (usualy it takes 125 minutes, different machines have different settings), we can make the filling.

Method for the filling

1. Take a kadai/non stick pan and add oil and heat it

2. Add mustard and cumin seeds

3. Once they splatter, add green chillies.

4. Add capscicum

5. Let it cook and then add onions

6. Add herbs such as dill

7. Add chilli powder and garam masala and mix well

8. Add salt to taste

9. Boil the potatoes and mash them well

10. Add the mashed potatoes and mix well

11. Now add coriander to garnish

Method for the bun

1. Once the bread machine beeps, the dough is ready, here is what it looks like

2. Filling is also ready

3. Now take little dough and roll it to palm size

4. Add the filling and cover it, you can seal it with little bit of water

5. Make plate full of these buns

6. Bake these in a 160 degree Celsius oven for about 20 minutes or until golden brown

7. This is how it looks like once done

8. Enjoy with a cup of ginger tea!