This is one dish that I am proud to say my mother-in-law thoroughly enjoyed. She being mainly a rice eating person, doesn't normally enjoy chapattis, but when she had my parathas she couldn't stop raving about it! :)
Mooli isn't something that you normally you use in cooking, so this is a great way to eat it.
In order to avoid the sharp pungent taste this vegetable has, you need to fry it well before making the parathas.
Ingredients
4-5 moolis, peeled and grated
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1-2 green chillies chopped
1" piece ginger, grated
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
3 tbsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
salt to taste
For the dough
2 cups flour
water
salt
2 tsp oil
Procedure
- Mix all the ingredients for the dough together, by adding the water gradually and kneading in to a soft dough.
- It should be soft and yielding to the touch.
- Cover and keep aside
Stuffing
- Squeeze the water out of the grated radish
- In a frying pan, heat one tbsp of oil
- Add the cumin seeds
- When the seeds start spluttering, add the green chillies and ginger
- Next add the radish, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala and salt
- Fry nicely for about 5 minutes on a medium heat, till all the excess water has evaporated
- Add the chopped coriander
- Turn off the flame and allow the stuffing to cool
- Now make equal size balls of dough
- Roll out the dough slightly to about 3 inches in diameter
- Put 2 tsp of stuffing and cover it, by wrapping the edges around \to form a small ball again
- Now carefully roll it out, dust it with flour while doing so, so that the dough does not stick
- Put it on a tawa which is on a medium heat. Drizzle it with some oil/ghee
- Keep turning it over till it is well done on both sides
Mooli paratha is read to be served! You can serve it with a raita of your choice - vegetable raita, boondi raita, masala raita etc
Happy cooking!
wow! that looks really tasty!
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