Indian · Bread
Pyaaz Kulcha with Chile-Spiked Onions
Soft buttermilk dough sandwiched around raw red onion, cilantro and green chile, salted and blistered on a very hot pizza stone, then brushed with ghee: a kulcha to cut into wedges for any legume curry.

- YieldMakes 4 filled breads, each cut into quarters
- Hands-on40 min
- Total1 h 14 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Dough
- 375 gunbleached all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting
- 2 tspbaking powder
- 1 tspcoarse kosher or sea salt
- 120 mlbuttermilk, at room temperature
- 240 mlwarm water, approximately
- to tastecanola oil, for greasing
- to tasteghee, for brushing
Filling
- 150 gred onion, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
- 15 gfresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped (about 1/4 cup)
- 5fresh green Thai, cayenne or serrano chiles, stems removed, finely chopped; 4 to 6 to taste
- ½ tspblack salt, or coarse kosher or sea salt
To finish
- to tasterock salt, lightly crushed, for sprinkling
- to tasteghee or melted butter, for brushing
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