Afghanistan · snack · English edition
Bolani
An Afghan flatbread with a potato or leek filling, cooked on a dry pan.
6 servings · 80 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 6 servings.
- 500 g Flour
- 280 ml Warm water
- 600 g Potatoes
- 200 g Spring onions
- 40 g Coriander
- 1 tsp Chilli flakes
- 250 ml Garlic yoghurt, to serve
- 60 ml Vegetable oil
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Knead a soft dough from the flour, warm water, a spoon of oil and salt.
- Cover the dough and rest it thirty minutes.
- Boil the potatoes soft, drain them and mash them without milk.
- Work the spring onion, coriander, chilli, salt and pepper into the mash.
- Divide the dough into six and roll each into a thin round.
- Spread the filling thinly over half the round and fold the other half over, pressing the edge.
- Cook them on a brush-oiled pan, four minutes a side, until spotted.
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